Climate and Environment

We explore the plastic pollution crisis in the Philippines, focusing on the widespread use of disposable plastic sachets. These sachets are difficult to recycle and...
Reporter: Per Liljas
In order to protect wild salmon and favour other more sustainable methods of salmon farming, the Canadian government has decided to ban salmon farming in...
Text: Lena Scherman
More chaotic weather conditions are ahead. Last year, heatwaves caused the world's rivers to reach their lowest levels in 33 years, while other parts of...
Text: Gustav Sjöholm/TT
Photo: Edmar Barros/AP/TT
Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT
Somewhere in the world, almost every week, there is an oil spill in the sea. And while it's only the really big spills that get...
Text: Lena Scherman
As the ice disappears from the Arctic, new shipping routes have opened up. This poses a risk to the whales that swim the same routes,...
Text: Gustav Sjöholm/TT
Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT
They are everywhere, in the sea and on land, in animals and plants and in the human body. Twenty years since the term ‘microplastics’ was...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
An unexplained hum puzzled seismologists around the world - who joined forces to solve the mystery. Climate change was the triggering factor, according to the...
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Søren Rysgaard/Danish military, Pontus Lundahl/TT
Ocean literacy is about understanding the importance of the ocean for people and how our actions affect it, no matter how far from the coast...
Reportage: Lina Mattsson
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: See credits
Blowing up the Kakhovka dam was a disaster - but now nature is taking over. Let's face it - this is not just about the...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Ivan Moysiyenko
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...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace
Rising sea levels are a looming disaster that risks hitting Pacific island nations particularly hard. This is the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres at...
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Charlotte Graham-McLay/AP/TT
A small Pacific island nation has pushed for the world's highest court to rule on states' climate change obligations. It is described as an important...
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Nick Perry/AP/TT
Over the past decade, sea temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia have been the warmest in 400 years, according to...
Text: TT/News Agency
Photo: Sam McNeil/AP/TT
The US is cancelling $35 million in debt to Indonesia in exchange for restoring and preserving coral reefs in an area that scientists say is...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Johan Candert
A 'Barbie pig' and a creature that could be 15 000 years old. Scientists recently found several mysterious species - right in the middle of...
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT
Photo: Smartex/NHM/NOC, Malin Arnesson/Göteborgs Universitet
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has published this year's State of the Ocean Report, which describes...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Johan Candert
They have been blown up in nuclear tests and poisoned when people fished with cyanide. However, the absolute biggest threat to the future of coral...
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT, Jim Maragos/AP/TT, Andrew Ibarra/NOAA/TT, David Wood/TT, Adam Ihse/TT
Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT
It blows up to a storm over the Atlantic. Record-warm ocean waters and a natural weather phenomenon have experts warning of what could be one...
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP/TT
More than half of the world's mangrove forests are at risk of collapse - which would have major consequences for both people and the climate,...
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT/News Agency
Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/TT
Scientists warn that the significant coral bleaching, which the American weather agency NOAA warned about earlier this year, has spread to several places on earth....
Text: TT/news Agency
Photo: C. Jones/AP/TT
An increasing number of journalists and media outlets covering climate change are subjected to various forms of physical, verbal threats, harassment, and attacks. This is...
Text: TT/News agency
Photo: Marcelo Chello/AP/TT
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...
Text: Bridget Ferguson reporting for DSR Queensland Australia
Cover photo: Tobias Dahlin
Photo: WWF Canada
Just as all life on land, life in the sea depends on oxygen. But for the oxygen to penetrate to the depths, the gas must...
Text: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Stock Image
The salmon industry is beset with major problems - which they do everything to hide. Journalist and author Simen Saetre knows all about it. He...
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
Photo and editing: Daniel Hager
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