Whale song helps scientists discover what lies beneath the earth’s crust

Scientists trying to map the Pacific Ocean floor get an unexpected assist from the world’s second-largest…

Plastic in the fish we eat

The oceans are now a soup of trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic From surface…

British fishing industry in crisis

UK Fishing industry faces an exports black hole over red tape More than 70 per cent…

Is blue energy about to ride a wave?

Tide and wave energy may be the missing link to Britain’s carbon-free future Orkney’s fast-flowing tidal…

Destructive bottom trawling happens in 98% of the UK’s Marine Protected Areas

All but one of Britain’s Marine Protected Areas suffer damaging bottom trawling and dredging A new…

Empty seas: oceanic shark populations plummet

A new study finds a steep decline in global shark and ray numbers For millennia, the…

Small group of companies dominate the ocean economy

Most of the revenue extracted from the oceans is concentrated among 100 multinationals Dubbed the “Ocean…

Researchers develop novel way of measuring ship noise

Light quickly scatters underwater but sound can travel for hundreds of miles Many marine organisms rely…

Underwater robot cleans ships to cut emissions

A ship may look elegant as it cuts serenely through the waves but a look below…

Seabirds killed in Namibian waters reduced by 98 percent

This stunning conservation success story comes after a decade of work Namibia’s longline fisheries were among…