The RiffReporter already showed what makes good marine journalism in their Mediterranean series, which was funded by the Okeanos Foundation. After the great success of this reportage series, the RiffReporter decided to take a closer look at the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
Why the North Sea and Baltic Sea of all places? The RiffReporters write the following:
“The North Sea and Baltic Sea are our seas. They offer us relaxation and refreshment, bring us goods from distant lands, fill our plates and increasingly also our electricity storage facilities. But they are also facing extreme changes: the Wadden Sea is in danger of “drowning”, the Baltic Sea of “suffocating”. Their warming and overfishing, the immigration and extinction of species and the protection of important ecological hotspots in times of new desires from the energy industry to the military are also issues that will be with us for a long time to come.”
Under the direction of Tomma Schröder and Katja Trippel and in collaboration with renowned science journalists, the research project “Future North Sea and Baltic Sea – how our seas are changing” produced 12 articles that take a broad look at the seas on our doorstep.