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In this video we explore the world of whale and dolphin communication. They use sound in extraordinary ways — from the powerful clicks of sperm whales, reaching over 230 decibels, to the unique, individual whistles of bottlenose dolphins. While many of these sounds are used for echolocation, helping them navigate and hunt, some researchers believe they could also serve as a form of complex language….
Reportage: Daniel Hager, Lena Scherman
Narrator: Simon Stanford
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Collective intelligence. It may sound like something fuzzy, quasi-psychological
But in fact, when we came across Iain Couzin’s research on flocking insects, animals and fish while making the documentary ‘Intelligence of the Sea’, we suddenly knew we had the documentary’s obvious grand finale….
Reportage: Daniel Hager, Lena Scherman
US President Donald Trump has put the axe to the US National Weather Service (NOAA). The hijacking affects both international climate research and local forecasts, experts and staff warn.
– It will cost us many lives, a former senior manager told TT….
Text: Gustav Sjöholm/TT
Graphic: Anders Humlebo/TT
Photo: Nick Rohlman/AP/TT, Paul Sancya/AP/TT, NOAA, Peter Dejong/AP/TT, Wilfredo Lee/AP/TT
We have known for a long time that whale poop fertilises the ocean and helps mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon in the ocean. But when they eat in one place and then pee in completely different places, it can be even better for the sea because they then spread fertiliser over otherwise nutrient-poor areas….
Text: Lena Scherman
Graphics: Basemaps are from www.naturaldata.com. Whale icons are from iStock.com/KBelka.
Photo: Grant Brokensha
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warmer sea
The sea gets warmer - the species die. It's not just coral reefs and fish that are threatened as the oceans warm - it's all life. Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs...
plastics in the sea
Plastics has been a revolutionary good product in many areas, but equally bad when it pollutes both our nature and our human body. Today, microplastics are found pretty much everywhere on our planet. In the air, in our food, in our bodies, in the sea...
the outlaw ocean project
The Outlaw Ocean Project is a non-profit journalistic organisation, based in Washington D.C. USA. They produce investigative journalism on human rights, labour conditions and environmental issues at sea...
ocean devotion
Many of us love the sea, the beach, the water and swimming in the waves, but there are those who care a little more than the rest of us. Those who, with commitment and passion...
the real rulers of the sea
The ocean's resources belong to all citizens. We want healthy seas, full of fish and shellfish. So how could the EU's seas be fished to the brink of ecological collapse? The overfishing is not an accident...
seal hunting
In an overfished sea, the seals have begun to move towards the coasts to look for food. Here they encroach on people's territory. From being nearly extirpated in the early 1980s...
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Editorials/Debate
I swim past the contours of two large gun barrels but they are almost completely covered in glassfish. I have never seen such a large school before. We swim on and slowly sink along the hull of the USS Saratoga. It’s 52 metres to the bottom….
Text and Photo: Johan Candert
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I write this as COP 16, the UN summit meeting on biodiversity,…
Text: Malcolm Dixelius
Graphics: Marine Conservation Institute
Photo: Johan Candert
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On Christmas Day 2004, our reporter and underwater film-maker Tobias Dahlin was…
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Can you feel anything but happiness, if you live on an island…
Text: Malcolm Dixelius, islander, filmmaker
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti, Malcolm Dixelius
Map: Naturvårdsverket
Editors' Choice
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When world-renowned ecologist and coral reef researcher Mark Erdman first arrived in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, in the early 2000s, both dynamite and shark fin fishing were still going on. He describes it as if all the major valuable fish species had been fished out. But today, when we meet him in Raja Ampat, we find a completely different reef, full of sharks and small fish….
Reportage: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Simon Stanford, Göran Ehlmé, Johan Candert och Tobias Dahlin
Voice: Simon Stanford
Sound effects: freesound/water lap snog
10:42
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
Graphics: Helena Fredriksson
3:18
Erlendur Bogason considers Eyafjör∂ur in northern Iceland to be his backyard. He has dived here for over 25 years and has not just become familiar with the fjord and its inhabitants but has made some surprising fish friends.  The close contact that Erlendur has with Stephanie, the Wolffish and the other residents of this marine protected area is astonishing. It gives us a whole new insight into the complexity of fish behaviour and how they interact.  …
Reportage/editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, john Jonsson, Simon Stanford
A research expedition in the North Atlantic has found several groups of sperm whales along with many other whale species in an area where Norway wants to conduct deep-sea mining….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Ã…slund/Greenpeace
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There is one ocean.
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Fishing
In February, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management extended the trawling ban from four nautical miles to twelve nautical miles. The ban intends to protect herring in the central area of the Baltic Sea. But marine ecologist Henrik Svedäng do not believe it will make a difference….
Text Linnett Andersen
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
A couple of weeks ago, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV) concluded in an investigation that two of the three seal species that inhabits Swedish waters are declining. The grey seal is increasing overall, but it has moved over to the Finnish side, the harbor seals are threatened by a total population crash, while the ringed seals have a stable population so far. Yet the government now wants to increase seal hunting to save the fish….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Johan Candert
Fishing for herring and sprat in the central Baltic Sea can increase by 139 percent, according to ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which today published its recommendations to the EU for fishing in 2025….
Text: Peter Löfgren
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In a report from 2020, published by BalticSea2020, the authors believe that large-scale fishing in the Baltic Sea is neither economically nor financially profitable for the state. On the contrary, it costs us all big money….
Reportage: Peter Löfgren
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Leif Eiranson
Climate and Environment
Sunscreen protects our skin from the sun’s ultraviolet rays that can lead to skin cancer. But what protects us can also pose a significant risk of bleaching corals and reducing fish fertility. That’s according to a new report compiled by researchers at the University of Plymouth.  …
Text: Lena Scherman
2:31
With a warmer climate, the sea ice is melting and more species are moving to northern latitudes. For killer whales, the melting sea ice provides new roaming opportunities further north into the Arctic Ocean….
Text/reportage: Linnett Andersen
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Johan Candert, Simon Stanford, Göran Ehlmé, Lars Öjvind Knutsen, Ismaele Tortella
5:57
In Raja Ampat, Indonesia, marine life has made a remarkable recovery, thanks to the establishment of large marine protected areas. However, not all species have bounced back. It’s estimated that only 20 adult Indo-Pacific leopard sharks remain, severely impacted by overfishing. Can this species be saved? And why is that important?…
Reportage: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Paul Nicklen, Marcello Johan Ogato, Simon Stanford
Soundmix : Mikael Brodin
Grade: Sebastian Guest
Narrator: Alexandra Stanford
10:42
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
Graphics: Helena Fredriksson
Baltic Sea
5:21
Several countries, including Sweden, have criticized Norway’s plans for deep-sea mining. However, a Swedish company has now been granted permission to explore the possibilities of extracting mineral nodules from the seabed off SkellefteÃ¥ in the Gulf of Bothnia….
Reportage: Lina Mattson
Editor/graphics: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
6:05
A Swedish company has been authorised to investigate the possibility of extracting mineral nodules from the seabed in the Gulf of Bothnia. They are said to be important for the green transition. Researchers will now provide answers to how the extraction would affect the organisms living at the bottom of the sea….
Reportage: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Tanja Holm, Tobias Dahlin, Ocean Archive, Sweco
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
1:59
The Baltic Sea is grappling with a severe ecological crisis primarily marked by oxygen depletion, leading to extensive dead zones. Human activities, including industrial processes and nutrient-rich agricultural runoff, have fueled the growth of algae, contributing to oxygen-starved conditions. These anoxic zones threaten marine life, disrupting ecosystems and fisheries. …
reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
05:21
Never before have there been so many different chemicals in our world. The production of plastics, pesticides and not least pharmaceuticals has created a chemical cloud around us…
Report: Martin Widman
Photo: Leif Eiranson and Robert Westerberg
Archive: Pond5
International
5:27
The African penguin is being starved to extinction. Commercial fishing has reduced fish stocks around the only remaining African Penguin colonies to such an extent that the birds cannot find enough fish to eat during their breeding season. Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, SANCOB is taking the South African government to court to try and force them to expand no-take zones around the colonies as part of their campaign to save the species….
Camera/Reportage: Simon Stanford
Field Producer: Jo Munnik
Editor: Helena Fredriksson
Ass. Editor: Ronja Arnold-Larsen
3:56
When world-renowned ecologist and coral reef researcher Mark Erdman first arrived in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, in the early 2000s, both dynamite and shark fin fishing were still going on. He describes it as if all the major valuable fish species had been fished out. But today, when we meet him in Raja Ampat, we find a completely different reef, full of sharks and small fish….
Reportage: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Simon Stanford, Göran Ehlmé, Johan Candert och Tobias Dahlin
Voice: Simon Stanford
Sound effects: freesound/water lap snog
4:25
Documentary filmmaker Johan Candert is at Bikini Atoll, diving into a strange sea. 80 years ago, the US detonated 23 nuclear bombs here, wiping out all life. But what Johan sees is a sea that is recovering. Life is coming back….
Reportage: Johan Candert
10:42
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
Graphics: Helena Fredriksson
Research
2:03
Overfishing is when we catch more fish than can be born. This leads to a steady decline in populations. Overfishing is a threat to marine fish – but there may be a bigger threat.
Listen to scientist Mark Erdmann talk about how climate change and overfishing are linked.
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Reportage: Helena Fredriksson/Lena Scherman
Foto: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford, Göran Elhmé, Grant Brokensha
Fish that are farmed on land are considered more sustainable, as it has minimal impact on the environment. But is fish raised on land better off?…
Text: Linnett Andersen
05:00
New research should provide an answer to that question.
-Historically, fish have hardly been considered animals, I think it is important to change that. If we see fish as animals, we might start to respect them more.
That’s what Marco Vindas says, who researches the behavior of fish, and is currently working on a world-unique project in Norway….
Reportage: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
Editing: Alexandre Gobatti
UW photo: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
1:59
Fish act as a kind of guide, finding the prey and ‘pointing out’ the location to the octopus, which can use its flexible arms to catch the hidden prey….
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editing: Ronja Arnold-Larsen
UW photo: Dr Eduardo Sampaio Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
