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Mass fish deaths will occur more often in rivers as UK gets hotter

14 July 2023

Large numbers of dead fish have been seen in many UK rivers in recent weeks, and researchers warn that climate change will lead to more such events

Hybrid salmon found in Canada may be a result of climate change

23 November 2021

Salmon found near the mouth of the Cowichan river on Vancouver Island are a hybrid species of coho and Chinook, which may have arisen as the timing and location of their spawning grounds overlapped

Adult fish sizes have shrunk over 50 years of sea temperature rises

31 December 2020

Fish in the North Sea are growing faster as juveniles but ending up smaller as adults. The pattern seems to be linked to rising sea temperatures

Climate change will make world too hot for 60 per cent of fish species

2 July 2020

Fish are at a far greater risk from climate change than previously thought, after researchers showed embryos and spawning adults are more susceptible to warming oceans

Scientists issue wake-up call on dangerous loss of oxygen from oceans

7 December 2019

The world’s oceans have lost 2 per cent of their oxygen on average over the past 50 years, alarming scientists who warn that the trend will impact fisheries

Climate change could trigger huge drops in food production by 2100

27 November 2019

Unchecked climate change could mean that by 2100, 90 per cent of the world’s population will live in a country where food production is falling

This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

30 January 2019

The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming

24 May 2018

The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries

Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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

Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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