Life in the world’s deepest seas: The challenge of finding 1,000 new marine species by 2030

While many of us might associate the sea with relaxing holidays on tropical beaches, the ocean is nothing but cold, dark and monotonous for most of the creatures that inhabit it. Read more here.

Climate change charts a dangerous course for the world’s largest fish

Warmer oceans are putting two giants of the sea on a collision course. Even at the size of a school bus, whale sharks — the world’s largest fish — are no match for cargo ships in busy shipping lanes: When the two collide, the sharks always lose. Read more here.

‘Bluebottle’ jellyfish: Is climate change bringing them to Britain?

An increase in the number of recorded sightings of Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish around British coastlines, have led researchers to speculate whether it is down to changes to our marine environments driven by climate change or simply recent strong winds that have blown them off course and away from their usual stomping grounds in the Atlantic Ocean over the last year. Read more here.

African penguin on the brink of extinction

The African Penguin has been officially uplisted from Endangered to Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, highlighting the species’ severe risk of extinction. With a staggering 97% of its population already lost, the bird could vanish from the wild in fewer than 4,000 days unless urgent conservation efforts are made. Read more here.

Great Barrier Reef survey confirms ‘catastrophic’ bleaching

Australia must do much more to battle climate change to help the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) said after the latest underwater reef survey showed unprecedented damage from the catastrophic summer, including this year’s mass coral bleaching event. The worst-hit southern reef is still to be surveyed. Read more here.