Epic plankton blooms make filming in the North Sea notoriously difficult. But a new documentary gives a rare glimpse of the kaleidoscopic life – seals, sharks, tuna, orcas and shorthorn sculpins – lurking beneath its wavesThe...
Read MoreThe race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected areaElectric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice...
Read MoreAmid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected areaThe harsh temperatures, treacherous currents and...
Read MoreGuided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA riverOn an overcast June morning, I step from the rubber-sided Zodiac boat on to a floating...
Read MoreExclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reducedUK programmes to protect nature and the climate in developing countries are suffering swingeing budget...
Read MoreIn 1999, Heather Preen contracted E coli on the beach. Two weeks later she died. Now, as a new Channel 4 show dramatises the scandal, her mother, Julie Maughan, explains why she is still looking for someone to take...
Read MoreSeaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo peopleAlong Madagascar’s south-west coast, the Vezo people, who have fished the Mozambique Channel...
Read MoreScientists discover thousands of sea creatures have made their homes amid the detritus of abandoned second world war munitions off the coast of GermanyIn the brackish waters off the German coast lies a wasteland of Nazi bombs,...
Read MoreExperts call for urgent strategy to end overfishing as report shows just 41% of stocks of species such as cod and mackerel considered healthyThe UK’s populations of fish such as cod, herring and mackerel are still being “grossly...
Read MoreWhen Graham Russell set out for a dip in powerful wintry surf, he had no idea the beach where he had helped save lives as a surf lifesaver would become the place where his own was changedIt was an exhilarating day in every...
Read MoreI put myself forward as a human guinea pig to study the effects of long-term sub-aquatic living. Not everyone can say they have befriended a lobster and a sharkMy stay in Jules’ Undersea Lodge started in March 2023. The habitat,...
Read MoreDeveloping snorkelling trails is part of my job, but I never tire of the teeming underwater life and seeing some of the least crowded parts of Britain’s coastPeople always ask me: isn’t it too cold to snorkel in Scotland? And I...
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