05 May 2026
Photo by Todd Cravens A humpback whale that spent more than five weeks stranded in the shallow waters of Germany’s Baltic Sea coast has been released into the North Sea, after a privately funded rescue team loaded it onto a specially adapted barge and towed it hundreds of kilometres to deeper water. The whale, […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by Nick Fewings The UK government must develop a strategic framework for managing competing demands on its coastal and offshore waters, a cross-party parliamentary committee has concluded, warning that fishing communities have lost confidence in the department responsible for supporting them. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee published its report, Resetting the relationship […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by Roman Manshin A major new report has concluded that the UK’s whales, dolphins and porpoises are being let down by legal protections that exist on paper but not in practice, with the North Sea, one of the most important cetacean habitats in UK waters, identified as a particular area of concern. The […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by Gustavo Zambelli A large and persistent marine heatwave is intensifying across the northeast Pacific Ocean, raising concerns among scientists about ecosystem disruption along the US West Coast – and forecasters warn that global marine heatwave coverage is on course to reach record levels by the end of the year. The heatwave has […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by Christian Paul Stobbe A landmark study published in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries has produced the first global inventory of fish species caught by bottom trawl fisheries — and the scale is striking. Researchers at the University of British Columbia documented nearly 3,000 species of marine fish caught by bottom trawls, drawn from 236 sources […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by TJ Fitzsimmons A major new peer-reviewed study has found that oil and gas exploration activities in Greek waters are causing serious harm to some of the Mediterranean’s most endangered marine species, and that the environmental assessments used to approve those activities were conducted on the basis of flawed, incomplete and outdated science. […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by Pascal van de Vendel Beneath the turquoise waters off the northern coast of Jamaica — the same stretch used as a backdrop for scenes in the James Bond film No Time to Die — a team of divers is carrying out an unusual mission. Rather than coral fragments or chemical treatments, their equipment consists […]
28 Apr 2026
Photo by Scott Rodgerson As visitor numbers on the UK’s coastline begin to rise ahead of summer, police forces and conservation organisations have been holding a series of public engagement events under the banner of Operation Seabird, a national campaign aimed at reducing wildlife disturbance and raising awareness of the legal protections afforded to […]
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