On an overcast morning, several miles off Sardinia’s east coast, four men jump into a net where 49 giant Atlantic bluefin tuna are fighting for…
View More ‘A frenzy of bodies in the chamber of death’: Italian fishers fight to preserve an ancient traditionTag: Marine life
Baby shark! Researchers may have captured first image of newborn great white
Researchers in California may have gotten the first ever look at a newborn great white shark, which they captured in drone images taken last summer.…
View More Baby shark! Researchers may have captured first image of newborn great whiteTories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleet
The government needs to urgently end polluting tax breaks for the UK fishing fleet that threaten to “empty the ocean of fish”, say conservationists, after…
View More Tories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleetFive to ditch and five to try: what fish should we be eating in 2024?
In a year of record-breaking temperatures and marine heatwaves threatening our already depleted seas, conservationists, supermarkets and even musicians, including Icelandic singer Björk, have spoken…
View More Five to ditch and five to try: what fish should we be eating in 2024?From sea to plate … to sea? Hong Kong puts oyster shells to a new use
Every Thursday around noon, a brown minivan pulls up in the alley behind the glitzy Peninsula hotel at Victoria Harbour in Kowloon, Hong Kong. A…
View More From sea to plate … to sea? Hong Kong puts oyster shells to a new use‘Unprecedented mass coral bleaching’ expected in 2024, says expert
Record-breaking land and sea temperatures, driven by climate breakdown, will probably cause “unprecedented mass coral bleaching and mortality” throughout 2024, according to a pioneering coral…
View More ‘Unprecedented mass coral bleaching’ expected in 2024, says expertThe scientist who was branded alarmist for exposing the fate of coral reefs
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg was just 10 years old when he first saw the Great Barrier Reef. That year, 1969, most young kids around the world were…
View More The scientist who was branded alarmist for exposing the fate of coral reefsHow do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?
After a dead fin whale washed up on a beach in Newquay, Cornwall, this week, experts are now dealing with a logistical challenge: how do…
View More How do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them
In September 1993, during a beach clean on the Isle of Man, Richard Thompson noticed thousands of multicoloured fragments at his feet, looking like sand.…
View More ‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop themMicroplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists
A type of zooplankton found in marine and fresh water can ingest and break down microplastics, scientists have discovered. But rather than providing a solution…
View More Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists