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Playing with Sharks

Playing With Sharks review: The amazing woman who helped film Jaws

30 January 2021

The colourful story of Valerie Taylor premieres at Sundance Film Festival 2021. With husband Ron, she made a dramatic switch from shark-hunting to shark filming, even shooting footage for Jaws


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Sharks at unprecedented risk of extinction after 71 per cent decline

27 January 2021

Numbers of oceanic sharks and rays have declined at an “alarming” 71 per cent over almost half a century, leading to an unprecedented increase in their risk of extinction


Over 1.5 million flamingos gather on the soda flats of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania

A Perfect Planet review: Attenborough's new show is one of his best

14 January 2021

David Attenborough documentary A Perfect Planet blends earth science with dazzling images of flamingos, finches and frogs to reveal how natural forces have nurtured life


Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans

Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans

1 September 2020

A New Scientist investigation has found that some of the world's richest people are funding geoengineering plans that would transform the world's oceans to combat climate change


Wallace & Gromit's creators make new animation to try to save the seas

Wallace & Gromit's creators make new animation to try to save the seas

15 January 2020

Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren have teamed up with the creators of Wallace & Gromit in a film called Turtle Journey to raise awareness about climate change and ocean pollution


David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

25 October 2019

Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world


The Galapagos Archipelago is home to unique species including marine iguanas

The waters of the Galapagos Islands are being invaded by alien species

28 March 2019

53 non-native organisms have been spotted in the protected marine environment of the Galapagos. Ships may be to blame – and worse species could be on their way


Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

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


Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

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


Great Barrier Reef

Our grandchildren may never see the Great Barrier Reef recover

18 April 2018

The reef has been so severely damaged by record ocean heat that it has had no chance to recover fully - and may never be the same again.


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