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Latest reportage
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Ivan Moysiyenko
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace
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Reportage/Photo: Jason Boswell
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Producer: Ian Urbina, Will N. Miller, Ed Ou
Exekutiv producer: Raphaela Morais
Editing: Will N. Miller
Music: William Ryan Fritch
Sound design/Sound mix: Rune Klausen
Colour: Christian Schwanenflügel
Additional Cinematography: Ben Blankenship, Youenn Kerdavid, Pete Bethune, James Glancy
Voice Actor: Wei Zitong
Voice-over producer: Maile Cannon - Face Productions
Postproduction Supervisor: William Crouse
Post production: Lars Mitch Fischermann
LATEST NEWS
2024-09-04
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Jorgen Ree Wiig/Fiskeridirektoratet through AP/TT
2024-08-27
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Charlotte Graham-McLay/AP/TT
2024-08-20
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Nick Perry/AP/TT
2024-08-15
Text: Malin Carlsson/TT
Foto: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP/TT
2024-08-08
Text: TT/News Agency
Photo: Sam McNeil/AP/TT
2024-08-06
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT
Photo: Smartex/NHM/NOC, Malin Arnesson/Göteborgs Universitet
THEMES
the outlaw ocean project
The Chinese fishing fleet is a great power on the sea. Fishing far out to sea where no country's laws reach, they are catching more fish than any other nation right now. And it comes at a terrible human cost...
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...
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...
Editorials/Debate
The conflicts within Swedish fishing are very fierce. Small-scale coastal fishermen on the east and south coasts face a small number of giant trawlers from the West Coast. I was looking forward to tough discussions and fruitful exchanges at this year’s Fishing Forum. But met with pleasant company in a luxurious mingling environment….
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Ida Åkesson/SPA
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29 February, 2024
2024-02-29
I am now forbidden to fish for cod and the pike has…
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Foto: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
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23 February, 2024
2024-02-23
Biomass and biodiversity. Two rather dull and stiff words. But words often…
Text: Johan Candert
Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé
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24 August, 2023
2023-08-24
The EU’s and Sweden’s marine policy has for several decades led to…
Text: Peter Löfgren
Editors' Choice
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace
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Maybe an odd job even for the accomplished South African free diver Nick Filmalter, but he became an essential part of ensuring the safety of our divers during the shooting of a documentary about the Sardine Run, in South Africa. He was the guy chasing away the sharks which became more interested in the crew than the sardines!…
Editor: Ida Candert
Videographer: Johan Candert
Underwater photography: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Jason Boswell
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The film “What have we done?” which shows man’s ruthlessness towards our oceans was praised and named “Honorable mention” in the international competition DPG/Wetpixel Masters 2022….
There is one ocean.
Our reporting has no boundaries.
There is one ocean.
Our reporting has no boundaries.
Fishing
Humanity has always sourced food from the sea. And fishing is an ancient way of doing so that can be traced back to the early Stone Age around 40,000 years ago. In the last 100 years, fish stocks have dramatically declined in the Western Sea and the Baltic Sea. And in most cases, overfishing is considered to be the major cause. …
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Simon Stanford, Lena Scherman, Kimmo Hagman
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
Our planet relies on the oceans as climate regulators. At the same time, the effects of our emissions are most evident in the oceans. Today, eutrophication, climate change, ocean acidification, and invasive species are some of the challenges the oceans face. …
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford
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In a world that urgently needs to change from fossil to renewable, there is a growing need for rare minerals such as cobalt and manganese. When we find them above ground, it is often in small quantities, but now it is believed that there are large deposits four thousand meters below the surface, in the deep sea. And the hunt in the depths has begun….
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
Photo: Daniel Hager, Greenpeace
Under Water Photography: Center for Deep Sea Research, University of Bergen
Over 15 million tonnes of plastic have leaked into the ocean since the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee sessions began in 2022. The fourth session (INC-4) marked a crucial juncture in the development of a global plastics treaty. However, stakeholders leave disappointed as the negotiations conclude in Ottawa, Canada. The reduction of plastic production, a key provision, was omitted from the mandate of further technical discussions. …
Text: Bridget Ferguson reporting for DSR Queensland Australia
Cover photo: Tobias Dahlin
Photo: WWF Canada
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a unique and sensitive sea where organisms live on the edge of what they can tolerate due to the low salinity. It has also been called the world’s most polluted inland sea due to eutrophication and the chemical cocktail caused by human activities….
Text: Lina Mattsson
Foto: Johan Candert, Kimmo Hagman, Simon Stanford
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For an extended period, the cod population in the Baltic Sea has been facing severe challenges. Overfishing and environmental issues have taken a toll on their well-being, causing a decline in their health. Consequently, many of them have become thin, emaciated, and susceptible to diseases. However, a pertinent question arises: What happens when wild cod are given the opportunity to recuperate? …
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford, Daniel Hager
UW-Photo: Johan Candert
Edit by: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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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
International
Dive into the intricate ecosystems of the world’s oceans, their lawless stretches, and the extremities that teem with life, all crucial to our existence and well-being….
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford, Johan Candert
China uses thousands of workers from the Hermit Kingdom,
in violation of U.N. sanctions and U.S. law. Many at the plants recounted rampant sexual abuse….
Text: Ian Urbina
Photo/Video: Douyin, The Outlaw Ocean Project, Living in North Korea
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An exploration of the motivations and methods behind China’s growth and control overfishing across most of the high seas….
Written by: Ian Urbina, Ben Blankenship
Narrated by: Ian Urbina
Videographers: Ben Blankenship, James Glancy, Youenn Kerdavid
Produced & Edited by: Ben Blankenship
Co-Producers: Raphaela Morais, Adrienne Urbina
Motion Grephics: Drew Evans
Archivists/Researchers: Chloe Darnaus, Sonia Szczesna
Additional Footage provided courtesy of: GreenPeace International, Environmental Justice Foundation, ABC News Australia, CICC, CGTN, Natural History New Zealand Limited, Kinolibrary, Bloomberg originals, U.S. Navy, COSCO Shipping, Puerto de Chancay, Prefectura Naval Argentina, Center for Strategic & International Studies, British Pathé
Research
Fish behavior, toxic algae, and the role of the sea in climate. These are some of the topics that marine research can address. Diverse subjects, but with a common goal: to better understand what happens beneath the surface….
Text: Lina mattsson
Foto: Hans Berggren, Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
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Marine Biologist, Dr Tessa Hempson and film-maker, Grant Brokensha, were part of a recent Manta Ray tagging expedition off the South African coast.
Mantas have an incredible 20 million years of evolution behind them, and we are just beginning to uncover their secrets and appreciate their remarkable intelligence. Both from personal observations and scientific research, there is compelling evidence that these creatures that have an unusually large brain in proportion to their size, are in fact highly intelligent beings…
Filmed and directed by: Grant Brokensha
Editing: Ruuan Botha
A new investigation shows that organic eggs contain high levels of several toxins and may pose a risk to young children. However, the production of conventional eggs risks increasing the amount of toxins in the environment in the long run.
– We need to put the brakes on (for PFAS). We should have done so the day before yesterday, says Petra Bergkvist, inspector at the Swedish Food Agency….
Text: Lina Mattsson
