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Seaweed

Health

Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change

From providing a green alternative to plastics to reducing methane emissions and sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, seaweed could be the secret ingredient we need to clean up our planet

Features

What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

Video

What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

Video

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Features

Great Barrier Reef coral

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

News

brittle star

Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

News

Puffadder Shyshark

Life

As our oceans become more acidic they may corrode the skins of sharks

News

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Life

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Culture

philosopher giving lecture

Life

Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

Culture

A hermit crab

Life

Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home

News

coral spawning

Environment

Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce

Corals need to spawn within minutes of each other to optimise reproduction – but climate change is causing them to spawn out of sync, threatening their survival

News

Environment

Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change

News

Life

Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

Culture

Life

Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths

Regulars

Life

The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions

Features