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...
Beneath the surface of Porsangerfjord in northern Norway, something profound is unfolding. Where barren rock once stretched across 70 hectares of seafloor, kelp forests now sway...
Last week, I came across a statistic that made me do a double-take (again, so many numbers to be surprised about these days): Abu Dhabi’s Sustainable...
Imagine walking along Abu Dhabi’s coastline today, you might not immediately sense what’s happening beneath the surface. But I have the numbers to tell a remarkable...
This year, Abu Dhabi will welcome the IUCN World Conservation Congress, bringing together thousands of delegates, organizations, and leaders from across the globe. I will be...
During the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) brought international attention to the importance of traditional Pacific knowledge in...
Earlier this year, the Republic of the Marshall Islands announced protection of two of the country’s remote and northernmost isles, untouched havens of biodiversity sheltering the...