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Oceans

March 2025

  • A sunflower sea star

    Microplastics and pesticides aiding death of sea stars in Washington state – study

  • Two young men pose by boats on the edge of a beach

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    From foul to fuel: how a seaweed problem could power the Caribbean

  • Both of Australia’s world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – are being hit by simultaneous coral bleaching, with teams of scientists on both coasts monitoring and tracking the event across thousands of kilometres of marine habitat
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    Footage shows coral bleaching on Ningaloo reef as Great Barrier Reef hit at the same time – video

  • A bull shark at Shark Bay Sea World Gold Coast

    ‘They’re smart now’: Australian fishers are on tenterhooks over shark encounters. Should swimmers be worried?

  • Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘I trust my eyes, not the forecast’: Alexandria is sinking. Why don’t local fishers believe it?

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    I’m obsessed with cave diving. This is the closest environment we have to space

  • Science Weekly
    A mysterious millionaire and the quest to live under the sea – podcast

  • The Guardian view on microplastics: harmful pollution must be curbed

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

  • As countries scramble for minerals, the seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Slavish’ catch limits ignored scientific advice, say conservationists in case against Defra

  • The real cost of cruises
    ‘The entire coastline will be cemented over’: the tiny Italian town set to become a dock for giant cruise ships

  • Pod of killer whales amaze Seattle onlookers with rarely seen bird hunt – video

  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future

  • Ocean rower Aurimas Mockus stranded by cyclone off Australia’s east coast safely rescued

February 2025

  • Aerial picture shows villagers looking at a dead sperm whale in shallow water.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Surge in marine heatwaves costs lives and billions in storm damage – study

    Floods, whale strandings and coral bleaching all more likely, say researchers, as 10% of ocean hits record high temperatures in 2023-24
  • a man wearing a blue shirt looks up in fear

    Last Breath review – thrilling underwater survival drama

    Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu star in a terrifyingly well-constructed adaptation of a documentary about a nightmarish accident
  • The Atlantic Ocean under a stormy sky

    Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds

    Climate scientists caution, however, that even weakened currents would cause profound harm to humanity
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