Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities

Global plans to drill and expand fossil fuel projects overlap with marine protected areas and important fishing grounds, a new report finds.

The oil giant says the documents ignore the critical context of the complex operating environment at the time.

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

Conservationists have called for urgent action to stop the collapse of stocks in the north-east Atlantic.

A new report by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and its member organisations has highlighted the widespread pollution of wild fish in seven EU countries with PFOS, a possible carcinogen.

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The Philippines will protect 60,000 hectares of ocean surrounding Panaon Island, home to one of the world's most climate-resilient coral reefs

Carcinogens entering waterways from 25,000 road outflows are not monitored or regulated by Environment Agency, committee hears

New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine heatwaves. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’...

Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019 Overfishing has led to a collapse in the eastern Baltic cod population, but over the past three decades the size of the fish themselves has also been dramatically and mysteriously shrinking. Now scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid evolutionary changes that have contributed to these fish roughly halving in average body length since the 1990s. Continue reading...

Environmental groups have praised government's progress made on marine protection at the UN meeting

A slew of global leaders met in the south of France to discuss the future of the oceans. There was ‘momentum’ and ‘enthusiasm’, but there were critical voices too

On a day that many might be headed to the beach, take a moment to consider some of the widespread impacts of all of that plastic, and the ongoing efforts to clean it up.

Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

The charity restores 590 acres of lowland peat in a year-long project at its oldest nature reserve.

Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.

They are large rafts that drift thousands of kilometers across the ocean surface, moving with the currents in an otherwise featureless marine environment. Tracked by satellites, the rudimentary floats...

A report from a London-based environmental group says illegal overfishing and destructive practices by foreign vessels are responsible for increased irregular migration to Spain from Senegal in West A...

It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.

The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by overfishing and bottom trawling

In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels.

Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.

Record renewables growth led by solar helped push clean power past 40% of global electricity in 2024, but heatwave-related demand spikes led to a small increase in fossil generation.

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

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