Research

A Swedish company has been authorised to investigate the possibility of extracting mineral nodules from the seabed in the Gulf of Bothnia. They are said...
Reportage: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Tanja Holm, Tobias Dahlin, Ocean Archive, Sweco
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Fish act as a kind of guide, finding the prey and ‘pointing out’ the location to the octopus, which can use its flexible arms to...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editing: Ronja Arnold-Larsen
UW photo: Dr Eduardo Sampaio Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Sometimes we remember events completely wrong when our brain creates so-called false memories. A study shows that false memories also occur in some octopuses....
Text: Roland Johansson/TT
Photo: Stephan Junek/TT
NASA has identified several hundred marine dead zones around the world. A dead zone is an area in the ocean where the oxygen level is...
Reportage: Daniel Hager
Research: Loke Nyberg
The EU's and Sweden's marine policy has for several decades led to overfished seas. Several ocean areas are on the brink of an ecological disaster....
Text: Peter Löfgren
Across the world scientists and biologists are studying a huge variety of dedicated and intricate subjects: jellyfish proteins; fish intelligence and whether octopus dream. On...
Reportage: Jason Boswell
Photography: Jason Boswell
UW-Photography: Jason Boswell, Grant Brokensha
The population of seahorses in Ria Formosa in southern Portugal was probably the largest in the world. But in the mid-2010s, it collapsed, and 95%...
Reportage: Daniel Hager
South Africa has an incredibly rich diversity of sharks, representing nearly a quarter of all known species, some found nowhere else on the planet....
Reportage: Jason Boswell
BRUV-Footage: Cape RADD
On the rocks in Bohuslän live small, discreet shells with special properties. Snail-collecting scientists have now received clues about what is crucial for species' survival....
Text: Petra Hedbom/TT
Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall
The narwhal is a relatively small arctic toothed whale (4 - 5 meters). It is shy and typically lives in the drift ice around the...
Reportage: Lars Öivind Knutsen 
Photography: Lars Öivind Knutsen, Roberto Lo Monaco, Frederik Wolff Teglhus, Göran Ehlmé
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
Planting new eelgrass in places where it had disappeared can do the trick for wildlife. About 80 percent of the invertebrates have returned in a...
Text: Petra Hedbom TT
Photo: Eduardo Infantes/Göteborgs universitet/TT
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
In northern Norway, a few kilometres outside the fishing harbour of Stø in the Vesterålen archipelago, lies the small, unassuming island of Anda. Small it...
Reportage: Lars-Öivind Knutsen
Photo: Lars-Öivind Knutsen
Researchers in the United States have developed a transmitter that can reveal where and when sharks give birth to their offspring, according to Vetenskapsradion....
Text: TT Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Keith A. Ellenbogen/AP/TT
In part two, we delve into the threats facing the small-toothed whales that inhabit Sweden's waters. Why are these porpoises becoming increasingly rare, and what...
REPORTAGE: MARKO T WRAMÉN
PHOTO: MARKO T WRAMÉN, SARA TORRES ORTIZ, JAKOB HØJER KRISTENSEN, LASSE/KULLEN DYK
EDIT BY: ANNA W THORBJÖRNSSON
Mattias Sköld is a researcher at SLU Aqua in Lysekil. He has been involved in filming the seabed in marine protected areas, including in Bratten,...
REPORTAGE: LENA SCHERMAN
UW-PHOTO: SLU AQUA/LYSEKIL
PHOTO: LEIF EIRANSSON
Sweden's only whale is not easy to see. In the Baltic Sea it is acutely threatened, but outside Kullaberg there is a small colony. There,...
REPORTAGE: MARKO T WRAMÉN
PHOTO: MARKO T WRAMÉN, SARA TORRES ORTIZ, JAKOB HØJER KRISTENSEN, PER CARLSSON
EDIT BY: ANNA W THORBJÖRNSSON
The 11th of February is the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science....
Reportage: Kajsa Grandell
Photography: Simon Stanford
Tvättsvampar kan rädda mänskligheten. Säger jag till grannen som tvättar bilen. Hon bara stirrar på mig....
Text: Peter Löfgren
Foto: Tobias Dahlin, Nadhem Benmbarek
The Baltic Sea is becoming a hot water bath. It affects the fish more than we might understand. It is a slow process that can...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo:Elin Jenjila Franzén, Alexandre Gobatti
UW-Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Robert Westerberg
Drone:Robert Westerberg
Editing: Apollonia Meleouni
Rapid climate change vs evolution. The Galapagos cormorant has evolved to thrive in an environment where they can feed near the coast outside the islands...
Reportage: Simon Stanford
Photo: Simon Stanford
Underwater photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé
Editor: Helena Fredriksson
A dead porpoise was found in the Blekinge archipelago in August. When the unusual find is now investigated, it turns out that the cause of...
Text: Anna Karolina Eriksson/TT
Photo: Paula Olson/AP Archive image
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