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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...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Simon Stanford
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
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
Seafood exports from Norway plummeted by a record amount, down by more than NOK 2 billion to NOK 12.1 billion in June, according to monthly...
Text: TT/News Agency
Photo: Gorm kallestad/NTB/TT
The salmon industry is beset with major problems - which they do everything to hide. Journalist and author Simen Saetre knows all about it. He...
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
Photo and editing: Daniel Hager
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
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
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...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christopher Andersen
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...
Reportage: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
Editing: Alexandre Gobatti
UW photo: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
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...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
Edit by: Daniel Hager
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...
reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
Editing: Daniel Hager
It is late winter. In Trondheimsfjorden in Norway, the corals and all of their inhabitants are waiting for the return of light and warmth.The sea,...
Reportage: Daniel Hager
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
During the summer, there have been alarming reports from the Baltic Sea that the herring is running out. The cod is long gone. The party...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo: Lars Öivind Knutsen, Roberto Lo Monaco, Göran Ehlmé
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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...
Text: Lars-Öivind Knutsen
Photo: Per Ole Halvorsen, Lena Ørnhoft
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
Editor: Apollonia Meleouni, Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
Thousands of cod heads are hanging to dry on the quay off Husöy, a small island in the outer coastal strip of northern Norway. They...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo: Lars Öivind, Roberto Lo Monaco
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
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
Music: Martin Andersson
Johan Candert had been diving and filming underwater for 25 years, but had never seen killer whales or whales in the oceans before. Recently, he...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
UV Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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