24 January 2023
Turbidity currents are cascades of sediment that tumble down Earth’s 9000 submarine canyons carrying carbon, plastics and pharmaceuticals into the deep sea. We are finally learning just how often these dramatic events occur.
29 September 2022
Melting ice has increased how fast Arctic waters are absorbing carbon dioxide, making them more acidic faster. The change could disrupt entire marine ecosystems
13 June 2018
The loss of Antarctica’s ice has been accelerating ominously since 2012, and could lead to big rises in sea level if the rate of loss keeps increasing
8 June 2018
Fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska are being stalked by enormous sperm whales, which charge in and rip huge volumes of fish from the lines
5 June 2018
We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them
21 May 2018
The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold
15 May 2018
The ocean tides are the strongest they have been for millions of years, and they will get stronger for several million years to come – because of the position of the continents
2 May 2018
Huge sea spiders move excruciatingly slowly, but they can still catch prey animals that move much faster than them – because their prey sometimes crash into the seafloor
3 April 2018
Bowhead whales are such talented singers they can make two sounds simultaneously, and they invent new songs every year
2 April 2018
Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat
