A bright green sea anemone, which lives in waters as shallow as just a few decimetres, has appeared in a limited area of Bohuslän.
A three-metre-long shark, which usually lives in tropical climates, had been trapped for several weeks in an artificial canal in south-eastern South Korea.
The UK government has approved plans to start drilling for gas off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea. Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the project will ´safeguard hundreds of jobs and help keep millions of homes warm this winter.´
The US has, single-handedly, worsened the outlook for the planet, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The country’s shift under Donald Trump is the main reason why global warming is set to be worse than feared. No one will be spared, says UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.
More icebreakers and an undersea cable to Greenland are included as the European Commission sets out a new strategy for the Arctic.
Twelve migrants have died in two boat accidents in the Mediterranean, according to the Greek authorities. Both accidents are reported to have taken place in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. According to the Greek coastguard, six people died in a collision with a police boat off the island of Lesbos. Four women and […]
In four years’ time, several key targets for the world’s wildlife and natural environment are due to be met – but progress is slow. How to achieve the targets set out in the ‘Paris Agreement for Nature’ is the focus as the UN Conference on Biological Diversity convenes for the 17th time.
The Philippines are warning that China is advancing its positions in the disputed waters of the southern South China Sea.
Every year, there are usually isolated reports of barrel jellyfish sightings on the Swedish west coast, but this year there have been significantly more sightings than usual. `There’s no doubt it’s a huge number,´ says marine biologist Martin Stjernstedt at Havets hus in Lysekil.
A sailing boat has sunk in the Pacific Ocean after a sperm whale punctured the boat’s hull.
This influx of heat is occurring at the same time as sea levels are rising ever more rapidly and ocean acidification continues, reports the British newspaper The Guardian. The amount of heat is equivalent to 40 times the annual global energy consumption.
The world is beginning to face a shortage of available oil tankers, which is driving up freight costs and threatens to disrupt global oil flows even further.
The desert nation of Namibia, located on the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, has literally plunged into the so-called “blue economy.” With massive farms of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, the country is on its way to becoming a major exporter of seaweed-derived products. The industry provides jobs and also serves as a carbon sink.
A collapsing glacier and a landslide are likely to have triggered the mudslide disaster in Nepal.
An iceberg larger than Manhattan has broken away from the Petermann Glacier. The iceberg, which broke away on 4 August, measures 76 square kilometres and is 150 metres thick – the largest in the Arctic since 2020. The European Space Agency (ESA) compares its size to the New York island of Manhattan. From a Swedish […]
Norway will continue to drill for oil in the Barents Sea even if the EU extends its moratorium on such activities, according to Norway’s Energy Minister Terje Aasland (Labour Party). Continued activity in the Barents Sea benefits both Norwegian and European interests, says Terje Aasland in an interview with the Reuters news agency ahead of […]
The sperm whale, the world’s largest toothed whale, has the largest brain on Earth. It also produces complex clicks which, according to a new study, resemble human speech. The study, published in the *Proceedings of the Royal Society*, is based on analyses of recordings made of sperm whales in the waters off the island of […]
During a night dive in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, documentary filmmaker Johan Candert manages to film a wobbegong shark catching its prey. “In the hundreds of dives I’ve done here, I’ve never seen that,” says Mark Erdmann, an ecologist specialising in coral reefs, who lives and works in Raja Ampat for much of the year.
The Arctic has become a faster alternative for ships transporting goods between Europe and Asia, reports the Financial Times. This week, the Chinese company Sea Legend is launching a regular service on what the shipping company calls the “ice route” through the Arctic Ocean. The company will be transporting containers between Ningbo in China and […]
Western Europe is experiencing its hottest summer to date, and the sea has never been warmer during the month of July.In Western Europe, a persistent high-pressure system has made the period from June to July the hottest on record, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The heat is exacerbated by dry ground, which […]
What’s it like to swim alongside some of the ocean’s largest predators? Join underwater photographer Göran Ehlmé, one of the first people in the world to dive with and film orcas. “It was naturally a bit nerve-wracking at first,” he says.
Large numbers of young great white sharks are expected off the Californian coast as the El Niño weather phenomenon intensifies, and researchers are warning of a ‘shark summer’. The sharks are not coming alone – the warm water from the south is also bringing with it stingrays and venomous sea snakes. Normally, colder, nutrient-rich water […]
Invasive species from the Strait of Hormuz could cause “super-spread” and biological chaos, researchers warn in a new study. ´If you’d set out to design the worst-case scenario, I’m not sure you could have done any better,´ the lead author tells The Guardian. The 1,500 cargo ships that have been stranded in the Strait of […]
The removal of fuel from the tanks of the battleship Ilmarinen, which sank during the Continuation War in 1941, has been completed, reports Finnish broadcaster Yle. The operation, which began in mid-July, removed around 60,000 litres of oil from the wreck. An estimated 40,000 litres of oil remain in the Ilmarinen’s tanks. The plan is […]
