Record warm seas spark dramatic shift in UK marine life

UK seas have experienced the warmest start to the year on record, driving significant changes in marine ecosystems and affecting both wildlife and coastal communities. Read more here.

The largest great white shark ever recorded is still alive

Typically, great whites grow between 11 to 16 feet in length, weighing several thousand pounds. Females are generally larger than males — likely due to evolutionary needs for reproduction — and can reach full size at about 15 years. Read more here.

There’s hope for sunflower sea stars, with their killer unmasked and reintroductions spending

Since 2013, sea star wasting disease, worsened by warming oceans, has wiped out 99% of sunflower sea stars from Washington state to Mexico, collapsing kelp forest ecosystems. Read more here.

Is deep sea mining as harmful as mining on land?

The demand for clean energy minerals attracted attention to the ocean floor, where lie millions of potato-sized rocks rich in manganese, cobalt, copper and nickel. Packed inside these nodules are greater quantities of minerals than all land reserves combined. Read more here.

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters

Oil spills, rising water temperatures, and ship strikes on the thriving whale population are among the greatest threats highlighted by critics. Read more here.