Environmental toxins

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,...
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford
Leaner cods, guillemot, and seals. Sluggish and red-spotted salmon. Several of the Baltic Sea's large animals are being pressured by ill health and new environmental...
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT
Photo: MARY EVANS PICTURE/ROLAND JOHANSSON/TORBJÖRN JACOBSSON / TT, ROLAND JOHANSSON/TT, PAULA OLSON/AP/TT, STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/TT/NTB, HASSE HOLMBERG/TT
"For us who live on land, the consequences are that this is an environmental problem that we will have to live with for a very...
Text: Erik Paulsson Rönnbäck/TT
Photo: Adam Ihse/TT
Researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History have recently discovered that many seals in the Baltic Sea suffer from intestinal ulcers...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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
For thousands of years there have been porpoises in the Baltic Sea - a shy dolphin-like whale. But due to environmental toxins and fishing, their...
Reportage: Martin Widman and Björn Hagberg
Header image: Martin Almqvist
Porpoise video: Jens Peder Jeppesen, Öresundsarkivet
Header image: Martin Almqvist
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