Oceans

Environment

‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge | Oceans

Last year in early summer, Alex Glasgow could be seen hauling up a long string of orangey-black seaweed on to…

Read More »
Environment

Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds | Oceans

The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical…

Read More »
Environment

Coca-Cola plastic waste in oceans expected to reach 602m kilograms a year by 2030 | Coca-Cola

By 2030, Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 602m kilograms of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans and waterways…

Read More »
Environment

The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business | Oceans

Ahead of the small boat, as it bobs on the waters near La Paz in the Mexican state of Baja…

Read More »
Environment

Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future | Oceans

In a high emissions future, the world’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050, further accelerating Antarctic…

Read More »
World

Sharks and rays benefit from global warming, but not from CO2 in the Oceans

Sharks and rays have populated the world’s oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the…

Read More »
Environment

2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm | Climate crisis

It was the hottest year ever recorded for the world’s lands and oceans in 2024, US government scientists have confirmed,…

Read More »
Environment

‘Extraordinary longevity’: great whales can live a lot longer than we thought – if we leave them alone | Oceans

In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s epic novel of 1851, the author asks if whales would survive the remorseless human hunt. Yes,…

Read More »
Environment

I’m obsessed with broken shells: they are marked by life, like our skin | Oceans

I have collected hundreds and hundreds of broken shells. I select them by holding them up to the sea, looking…

Read More »
Environment

Trawl the sea or mine for metals? Pacific nations wrestle with how to protect oceans – and livelihoods | Pacific islands

Dotted across the north-west of the Pacific Ocean, the limestone islands of Palau rise like forested domes. Beneath the waves,…

Read More »
Back to top button