Climate and Environment

CHRONICLE: Wow – A Maritime National Park!

Can you feel anything but happiness, if you live on an island in the Baltic Sea and realize that a major chunk of the neighboring...
Text: Malcolm Dixelius, islander, filmmaker
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti, Malcolm Dixelius
Map: Naturvårdsverket
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Swedish Company Interested in Extracting Metals from the Seabed

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...
Reportage: Lina Mattson
Editor/graphics: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin

Plastic Rubbish can “Sound” Like Food for Deep-Diving Whales

Deep-diving whales use echolocation in the darkness of the deep sea to hunt, but when the sea is full of plastic, this ability can kill...
Text: Lena Scherman
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A River of Plastic

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

Salmon Farming to be Banned in Canada

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

Warning: Earth’s Water System out of Balance (TT)

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

On Oil Spills and Satellites

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
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Loud Threats to Whales in the Arctic (TT)

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

What have we learnt from 20 years of research on microplastics?

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

“The Earth Rang Like a Bell” – Nine Days in a Row (TT)

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
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Ocean Literacy – to Understand the Ocean

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

After the disaster – Nature Takes Over

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

New Whale Findings in Planned Deep Sea Mining Area

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

Guterres cries SOS on rising seas

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

How a Small Island Nation Hopes to Win the Battle for its Survival

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

Great Barrier Reef Experiences Record Temperatures

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

Debt Write-Off to Save Coral Reefs in Indonesia

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

Pink Sea Pig Found in Depths – “You Feel Stunned”

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

State of the Ocean in Crisis

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

Coral Expert: They are Tough and Will Surprise Us

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

Extraordinary hurricane season expected

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

Mangrove Swamps are Collapsing

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

Coral Bleaching is Spreading Around the World

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

Attacks against climate journalists are increasing

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

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