Environment

Seal populations rebound after hunting ban and environmental efforts, sparking debate between conservation needs and the impact on fishing. Dive into the story....

Reportage: Lena Scherman

Editing: Alexandre Gobatti

Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Leif Eiransson, Simon Stanford, Anders Kronborg, Lunds Universitet

Fishing

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Talk about the sea!

The ocean is exposed to so many threats - but we must not give up hope for the future, says oceanographer Helen Czerski. By spreading...

Reportage: Peter Löfgren

Editing: Helena Fredriksson

Photo: Leif Eiransson

Supplementary photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Alexandre Gobatti Ramos, Erik Saanila, Adam Nilsson

Music: Peter Adolfsson

Climate and Environment

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Local Environmental Custodianship

Kwanele Mbatha makes a living by subsistence fishing and guiding tourists along South Africa’s Wild Coast but this fragile ecosystem faces the threat of overfishing,...

Reportage: Simon Stanford

Photo: Simon Stanford

Editing: Niklas Berglund

Climate and Environment

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Environmental Organizations Sue EU Over Overfishing: Will Justice Be Served?

EU fisheries ministers are currently violating EU laws, yet no one has been held accountable for their actions. However, today, March 16, environmental organizations are...

Text: Peter Löfgren

Foto: Göran Ehlmé

Climate and Environment

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Invasive species part 2 – The comb jelly Mnemiopsis leydyi

The small but spectacularly beautiful comb jelly Mnemiopsis leydyi, can reproduce at a dismaying speed, and copes with warm and cold water and even different...

Reportage: Lena Scherman

Photo: Tobias Dahlin

Climate and Environment

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Disputed Fukushima evacuation may be delayed

Japan's controversial plan to flush out millions of tonnes of stored water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster looks set to be delayed. The construction of...

International

Environment

Spanish lagoon gets ‘human’ rights

The shallow saltwater lagoon Mar Menor on the Spanish east coast is given legal protection, as if it were a human being. It gets, just...

Text: Lena Scherman

Graphics: Lena Scherman

Climate and Environment

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The gas explosion took place in the middle of the cod nursery

"It's a fantastically large emission of methane gas, and a terrible bad luck that it happened exactly where it did," says Thomas Dahlgren, a marine...

Text: Lena Scherman

Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert

Climate and Environment

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Galapagos, 25 Years of Marine Protection

Legendary oceanographer, Sylvia Earle first visited the Galapagos Islands in 1966 and described it as, "the sharkiest fishiest place I've ever been." In July 2022...

Reportage: Simon Stanford

photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Simon Stanford

Editor: Helena Fredriksson

International

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Earth’s glaciers on the verge of disappearing

An overwhelming majority of the world's glaciers are shrinking and many of them could disappear in the not-too-distant future, according to a series of new...

Text: Roland Johansson/TT

Photo: Berit Roald/NTB/TT, Anders Humlebo/TT, Fredrik Sandberg/TT

International

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The sea my comfort

In this report, part of our collaboration with the Red Cross Folk High School, film students Hugo Carlsund and Linnéa Ekström meet three people who,...

Climate and Environment

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The walruses are coming!

Most people associate walruses with the Arctic Ocean and eternal ice. So when the young walrus Freya was seen in a port on Smögen in...

Reportage: Lars-Öivind Knutsen

Photo: Göran Ehlmé, Per Ole Halvorsen, Steinar Sannes, Lars-Öivind Knutsen, Marko T Wramén

Editor: Apollonia Meleouni

International

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The sea is your best friend – a book by Lasse Åberg

In a new children's book, Lasse Åberg takes us to the unknown world beneath the surface. "The sea is your best mate" shows why the...

Reportage: Lena Scherman

Photo: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos

Editor: Apollonia Meleouni

Climate and Environment

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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. Planet in distress.

I have now worked full time at Deep Sea Reporter for just over a year and the month of May has come around again and...

Text: Simon Stanford

Photo: Simon Stanford

Climate and Environment

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100 million environmental trees in Mozambique

Mozambique plans to plant 100 million trees along its coast. The country in southeast Africa is severely beset by both tropical storms and rising water...

Text: TT

Photo: Odd Andersen/Pool via AP/TT

International

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After the tsunami: oil spill in Peru pollutes sea shores

Penguins, sea lions and seabirds have died and fishermen have lost their income after an oil disaster in Peru - triggered by the eruption of...

Text: TT

Photo: Martin Mejia/AP/TT

Graphic: Anders Humlebo/TT

International

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Sharks and corals protected in Öresund

Öresund is a unique marine environment. In the waters between Denmark and Skåne, the sweet and oxygen-poor waters of the Baltic Sea meet the salty...

Report: Marko T. Wramén

Climate and Environment

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World leaders seem to have too much imagination

World leaders seem to have too much imagination when it comes to the effects of the climate crisis...

Text: Fanny Jönsson

Photo: TT Bildbank/ AFP / Jonathan NACKSTRAND

Chronicles

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Sophia Axelsson – a diving climate activist

" I think it's important that you speak up and raise your voice for what you think is important...

Text: Fanny Jönsson

Photo: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos

Climate and Environment

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Thousands of tonnes of chemical warfare agents south of Gotland

That history sometimes meets the present becomes clear in the case of chemical warfare agents from the Second World War. And not least, it also...

Text: Björn Hagberg

Photo: Magnus Martinsson/N/TT, Jorma Valkonen/TT, Sydsvenskan/IBL, Sjöfartsverket, Sipa/TT

Climate and Environment

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The Baltic Sea is the world’s most eutrophic sea – despite decades of action

Eutrophication is the biggest and most pressing environmental issue for the Baltic Sea, even today. Several major efforts are underway to address the problems, but...

Report: Martin Widman

Photo: Leif Eiranson, Robert Westerberg, Johan Candert

Music: Audionetwork

Baltic Sea

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Environment

Mining the Depths

Deep sea mining – a background

Shore protection eased for aquaculture in Sweden

Seal hunting part 8 – Why do we shoot seal and not porpoises?

Talk about the sea!

Local Environmental Custodianship

Environmental Organizations Sue EU Over Overfishing: Will Justice Be Served?

Invasive species part 2 – The comb jelly Mnemiopsis leydyi

Disputed Fukushima evacuation may be delayed

Spanish lagoon gets ‘human’ rights

The gas explosion took place in the middle of the cod nursery

Galapagos, 25 Years of Marine Protection

Earth’s glaciers on the verge of disappearing

The sea my comfort

The walruses are coming!

The sea is your best friend – a book by Lasse Åberg

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. Planet in distress.

100 million environmental trees in Mozambique

After the tsunami: oil spill in Peru pollutes sea shores

Sharks and corals protected in Öresund

World leaders seem to have too much imagination

Sophia Axelsson – a diving climate activist

Thousands of tonnes of chemical warfare agents south of Gotland

The Baltic Sea is the world’s most eutrophic sea – despite decades of action

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