A North Atlantic right whale sighted off Georgia with a serious entanglement is facing uncertain survival, experts say, highlighting the ongoing threats facing this critically endangered...
International teams will develop AI tools to decode ancient texts, analyze film narratives, and map archaeological landscapes Schmidt Sciences has announced $11 million in funding for...
The Chacabuco Valley stretched wide before us. The golden steppe was broken by winding rivers, framed by snow-capped ridges that seemed to glow in the fall...
When I think about some of the most impactful conservation wins of our time, the global ivory bans, the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act, or Canada’s...
Welcome to the December issue of SEVENSEAS. This month we turn our attention far north to Norway, where darkness becomes spectacle and the future of ocean...
In the depths of Norwegian winter, when the sun refuses to rise above the horizon for weeks at a time, something remarkable happens. Two extraordinary light...
Deep in Hardangersfjord, Sondre Eide steers his boat toward what looks like a black cylinder barely breaking the water’s surface. “This tank goes down 72 meters,”...
December in northern Norway means something most of the world finds hard to fathom: the sun barely rises. Tromsø, perched well above the Arctic Circle, experiences...
When Norway’s parliament voted in January 2024 to open 281,000 square kilometers of Arctic seabed to mineral exploration, the decision reverberated far beyond Scandinavian waters. The...
In coastal Norway, winter celebrations begin not with a date on the calendar but with a fish. Long before Christmas lights shimmer across Henningsvær’s harbor or...