‘I ate 40kg of chocolate’: Yorkshire teacher, 21, on rowing solo across the Atlantic
Jasmine Harrison, the youngest woman to make the 3,000-mile journey alone, relished the freedom of doing it all by herself
Tag: Oceans
Magnets, vacuums and plant-based nets: the new fight to clean plastic from our seas
Microplastics are finding their way into the air, our drinking water, and even our placentas. Here is how some innovators are tackling them
Climate crisis: world now at its hottest for 12,000 years
Scientists say temperatures globally at highest level since start of human civilisation
Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring calls for an ocean memorial to slavery
The alternative Black history of a deep-sea civilisation has planted the seed for proposals to memorialise the 1.8 million Africans who died in the Atlantic
Officials hail ‘encouraging’ number of north Atlantic right whale births
Wildlife officials in Florida have reported an “encouraging” number of sightings of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the south-eastern US, including at least 14 new calves, three born … Read More
NGOs demand action not promises as EU accused of ‘failing to protect seas’
Environmental groups propose urgent plan to stop overfishing and safeguard marine life, as existing laws go unenforced
Why are ocean warming records being broken year after year?
If you want to understand global heating, you have to measure and examine ocean warming trends
Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather
Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years
Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
Weaker sharks less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say authors of study into impacts of hotter oceans
Fatal freshwater skin disease in dolphins linked to climate crisis
Researchers report affected animals off the coasts of the US, South America and Australia