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Hawaii /
Marine Protected Areas
Trump tears up protections across three Pacific marine monuments
The Trump administration has revoked fishing protections across three Pacific marine national monuments, exposing some of the world's most biodiverse and culturally significant ocean habitats to commercial longlining and purse seining. Read More
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Marine Life /
Tonga
Goblin shark filmed alive in the deep ocean for the first time
Scientists have captured the first live footage of a goblin shark in its natural deep-ocean habitat, extending the species' known depth and geographic range and offering a rare glimpse of one of the ocean's most elusive predators. Read More
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Marine Life /
UK
Phytoplankton decline hints trouble for north Atlantic food webs
Scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory identify a sustained decline in north-east Atlantic ocean productivity, linked to warming-driven stratification that cuts nutrient supply to phytoplankton. Read More
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Adventure /
UK
The world's toughest row and its scientific mission
Teams Rowmads and Nautilus set off from Tower Bridge on 14th June to row 2,000 miles around Great Britain non-stop, collecting data on microplastics and ocean health throughout. Read More
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Exploration /
Indian Ocean
5.3 million year old whale graveyard discovered in the deep sea
The site is the deepest and largest whale fall site to have ever been recorded, and may be teeming life entirely new to science. Read More
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Africa /
Climate change
Wildlife belongs in climate policy, says breakthrough consensus
A coalition of 287 scientists has issued the first global consensus recognising wild animals as active climate allies, urging governments to formally incorporate wildlife into climate policy and frameworks. Read More
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Africa /
Ocean Pollution
Kenya's coastal contradiction ahead of Ocean Conference
As Kenya hosts the world's leading ocean conference, new data reveals a damning contradiction: every marine protected area and coral reef on its coast sits within a proposed offshore drilling zone. Read More
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Fishing /
UK
Devastating scale of bycatch in UK commercial fishing revealed
Huge numbers of porpoises, seals, dolphins, salmon and seabirds are dying annually, and conservation groups are calling on the government for tightened regulations Read More
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Blue Carbon /
UK
What is dredging and trawling costing us in carbon?
Researchers have used Victorian-era archives and modern seabed data to produce the first long-term estimates of carbon disturbance from port dredging and aggregate extraction across the Northwest European shelf. Read More
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