Changing ocean chemistry is helping smaller plankton thrive while bigger species decline, a 35-year study off Plymouth has ...

Campaigners say they have closed 116 sq km of the Southern North Sea, an MPA created to protect harbour porpoises, to bottom ...

Marine heatwaves pushed kelp beyond its heat tolerance while warmer seas gave plant-eating fish up to 86 more days a year to ...

Open letter to President Claudia Sheinbaum warns new Decree leaves the world’s most endangered small cetacean exposed to ...

Two weeks of negotiations at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) ended in Hobart last week without an agreement on any of the proposed marine protected ...

African penguins are facing an unprecedented decline; their numbers have dropped by 97 per cent in the last century. Francesca Page follows their plight and finds a population struggling to compete ...

That was until Madeiran landowners and labourers began to eye up the Desertas Islands in the 15th century as a future settlement. Upon their arrival, and as was customary at the time, these explorers ...

A proposal to extend the ban on deep-sea bottom trawling in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from 1,000 to 800 metres depth has been blocked, with the European Union (EU), led by Italy and Spain, ...

Listening to the songs of endangered pygmy blue whales could help researchers identify when the animals are feeding off Western Australia’s coast, improving scientists’ ability to monitor their ...

Along Europe’s coasts, the fishing sector has arrived at a tipping point. The symptoms are unmistakable to anyone watching European maritime affairs: an ageing fishing fleet and a workforce with a ...