20 April 2022
From deep-sea mines to aquaculture, bioprospecting and energy generation, humanity’s accelerating expansion into the high seas has potentially huge consequences for its health
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
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
23 March 2018
An assessment of Earth’s biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock-on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food
7 March 2018
Rising seas are already boosting the flood risk in places like San Francisco, but the problem is even worse than that because land is also subsiding
16 January 2018
The slick of oil condensate from a stricken tanker in the East China Sea is a threat to all marine life, not least because it is invisible
21 July 2017
What happened when all 129 men in John Franklin’s Arctic expedition vanished in the late 1840s? We’re finally putting the pieces together
