Environment

3:51

Mining the Depths

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....
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
Photo: Daniel Hager, Greenpeace
Under Water Photography: Center for Deep Sea Research, University of Bergen

Deep sea mining – a background

In a world that quickly needs to change from fossil to renewable, there is a growing need for rare minerals such as cobalt and manganese....
Text: Lena Scherman
Foto: Greenpeace

Shore protection eased for aquaculture in Sweden

It may soon become easier to start algae and mussel farms in Sweden. This is indicated by a new investigation that suggests aquaculture should be...
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Jocke Höög/DS
2:16

Seal hunting part 8 – Why do we shoot seal and not porpoises?

Seal populations rebound after hunting ban and environmental efforts, sparking debate between conservation needs and the impact on fishing. Dive into the story....
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editing: Alexandre Gobatti
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Leif Eiransson, Simon Stanford, Anders Kronborg, Lunds Universitet
3:11

Talk about the sea!

The ocean is exposed to so many threats - but we must not give up hope for the future, says oceanographer Helen Czerski. By spreading...
Reportage: Peter Löfgren
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Leif Eiransson
Supplementary photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Alexandre Gobatti Ramos, Erik Saanila, Adam Nilsson
Music: Peter Adolfsson
4:11

Local Environmental Custodianship

Kwanele Mbatha makes a living by subsistence fishing and guiding tourists along South Africa’s Wild Coast but this fragile ecosystem faces the threat of overfishing,...
Reportage: Simon Stanford
Photo: Simon Stanford
Editing: Niklas Berglund
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Environmental Organizations Sue EU Over Overfishing: Will Justice Be Served?

EU fisheries ministers are currently violating EU laws, yet no one has been held accountable for their actions. However, today, March 16, environmental organizations are...
Text: Peter Löfgren
Foto: Göran Ehlmé
1:02

Invasive species part 2 – The comb jelly Mnemiopsis leydyi

The small but spectacularly beautiful comb jelly Mnemiopsis leydyi, can reproduce at a dismaying speed, and copes with warm and cold water and even different...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
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Disputed Fukushima evacuation may be delayed

Japan's controversial plan to flush out millions of tonnes of stored water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster looks set to be delayed. The construction of...
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Spanish lagoon gets ‘human’ rights

The shallow saltwater lagoon Mar Menor on the Spanish east coast is given legal protection, as if it were a human being. It gets, just...
Text: Lena Scherman
Graphics: Lena Scherman

The gas explosion took place in the middle of the cod nursery

"It's a fantastically large emission of methane gas, and a terrible bad luck that it happened exactly where it did," says Thomas Dahlgren, a marine...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert
07:48

Galapagos, 25 Years of Marine Protection

Legendary oceanographer, Sylvia Earle first visited the Galapagos Islands in 1966 and described it as, "the sharkiest fishiest place I've ever been." In July 2022...
Reportage: Simon Stanford
photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Simon Stanford
Editor: Helena Fredriksson

Earth’s glaciers on the verge of disappearing

An overwhelming majority of the world's glaciers are shrinking and many of them could disappear in the not-too-distant future, according to a series of new...
Text: Roland Johansson/TT
Photo: Berit Roald/NTB/TT, Anders Humlebo/TT, Fredrik Sandberg/TT
19:41

The sea my comfort

In this report, part of our collaboration with the Red Cross Folk High School, film students Hugo Carlsund and Linnéa Ekström meet three people who,...
09:45

The walruses are coming!

Most people associate walruses with the Arctic Ocean and eternal ice. So when the young walrus Freya was seen in a port on Smögen in...
Reportage: Lars-Öivind Knutsen
Photo: Göran Ehlmé, Per Ole Halvorsen, Steinar Sannes, Lars-Öivind Knutsen, Marko T Wramén
Editor: Apollonia Meleouni
04:13

The sea is your best friend – a book by Lasse Åberg

In a new children's book, Lasse Åberg takes us to the unknown world beneath the surface. "The sea is your best mate" shows why the...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
Editor: Apollonia Meleouni
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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. Planet in distress.

I have now worked full time at Deep Sea Reporter for just over a year and the month of May has come around again and...
Text: Simon Stanford
Photo: Simon Stanford
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100 million environmental trees in Mozambique

Mozambique plans to plant 100 million trees along its coast. The country in southeast Africa is severely beset by both tropical storms and rising water...
Text: TT
Photo: Odd Andersen/Pool via AP/TT
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After the tsunami: oil spill in Peru pollutes sea shores

Penguins, sea lions and seabirds have died and fishermen have lost their income after an oil disaster in Peru - triggered by the eruption of...
Text: TT
Photo: Martin Mejia/AP/TT
Graphic: Anders Humlebo/TT
08:02

Sharks and corals protected in Öresund

Öresund is a unique marine environment. In the waters between Denmark and Skåne, the sweet and oxygen-poor waters of the Baltic Sea meet the salty...
Report: Marko T. Wramén

World leaders seem to have too much imagination

World leaders seem to have too much imagination when it comes to the effects of the climate crisis...
Text: Fanny Jönsson
Photo: TT Bildbank/ AFP / Jonathan NACKSTRAND
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Sophia Axelsson – a diving climate activist

" I think it's important that you speak up and raise your voice for what you think is important...
Text: Fanny Jönsson
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos

Thousands of tonnes of chemical warfare agents south of Gotland

That history sometimes meets the present becomes clear in the case of chemical warfare agents from the Second World War. And not least, it also...
Text: Björn Hagberg
Photo: Magnus Martinsson/N/TT, Jorma Valkonen/TT, Sydsvenskan/IBL, Sjöfartsverket, Sipa/TT
04:20

The Baltic Sea is the world’s most eutrophic sea – despite decades of action

Eutrophication is the biggest and most pressing environmental issue for the Baltic Sea, even today. Several major efforts are underway to address the problems, but...
Report: Martin Widman
Photo: Leif Eiranson, Robert Westerberg, Johan Candert
Music: Audionetwork
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