The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries and Coast Guard recently carried out a number of inspections on Norwegian herring trawlers in the south-eastern North Sea, and...
The alleged ‘spy whale’ Hvaldimir was shot dead, claim the organisations One Whale and Noah. The animal rights organisations have filed a police report in...
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Jorgen Ree Wiig/Fiskeridirektoratet through AP/TT
In 2023, relatively many lobsters were caught in the Swedish and Norwegian waters, but this was not because the number of lobsters has increased, on...
Sweden, Finland, and Norway conduct hunting for seals as trophy hunting. In most other countries, hunting of large marine mammals has been prohibited. In the...
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti
New research should provide an answer to that question. -Historically, fish have hardly been considered animals, I think it is important to change that. If...
Øyvind Øverli, is a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He tells us the story how the expansion of hydroelectric power plants in...
Ida Beitnes is a Associate Professor at the NMBU. Ida has earlier studied stress as an important contributor to the development of cardiac disease in...
Marco Vindas is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He conducts research on the neural control of behavior and physiology in...
The seas and coasts of much of the world are now ecologically unbalanced. Overfishing has often been cited as the dominant problem. But acidification, eutrophication,...
Text: Lars Öivind Knutsen
Photo: Veronica Turnage, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, Birger Saetre, Trollskog, Janne Gitmark
Many Norwegian children probably cried themselves to sleep on Sunday 14 August 2022. In the early hours of the same morning, the popular walrus Freya...
We are going to the northern Norwegian fjord Kvänangen approximately 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Fishing boats from all over the Norwegian west...
Reportage: Lars-Öivind Knutsen
Photo: Lars Öivind Knutsen, Roberto Lo Monaco, Göran Ehlmé, Simon Stanford, Anders Kronborg
Underwater photography in Northern Norway heads below the surface to film killer whales and humpback whales eating herring. They also dive at night and meet...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
UV-Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Tobias Dahlin
In this second part of the reportage series from Northern Norway, we follow underwater photographer Johan Candert under the surface as he tries to film...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
UV Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Tobias Dahlin