Oceans

4-Louise Composite: AP / Guardian Design For more than 20 years, Louise Sime has worked at the British Antarctic Survey…

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed…

On a glimmering May morning, Tom Briggs pilots a 45ft aluminium barge through the waters of Casco Bay for one…

Nations must move from “plunder to protection” in order to save the world’s seas from crisis, the UN chief, António…

The Australian government plans to declare 30% of its ocean “highly protected” by 2030, raising expectations from conservationists it will…

On his trawler in Saint-Malo, one of France’s most important ports for scallops and crabs, Laurent Mevel is fixing his…

Almost 40 million sq kilometres of ocean around south-east Asia and the Pacific – an area five times the size…

Great swathes of the planet’s oceans have become darker in the past two decades, according to researchers who fear the…

The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team…

The world’s oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one…