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Marine Life /
North Atlantic
Whale I never: Rise in humpback whale sightings in the UK
Throughout the past few winter months, the UK has registered an increase of humpback whale sightings around its expansive coastline. While this increase might indicate a growing humpback whale population, it could also be a sign of the effects of climate change, researchers warn. Read More
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Marine Life /
Scotland
200,000 fish die in "single worst jellyfish attack" on Scottish salmon
The string of pearls jellyfish - also known as ‘string jellyfish’ - has struck two Scottish salmon farms resulting in a "substantial emergency harvest" and marking what is now believed to be the single worst incident involving these jellyfish on a farm in Scotland. Read More
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Deep sea mining /
UK
Deep sea's 'Dark Oxygen' is "most profound discovery of our time"
A £2m project to extend research into 'Dark Oxygen' - oxygen produced in complete absence of photosynthesis on the deep seafloor - is to get underway with backing from The Nippon Foundation and IOC UNESCO under its UN Ocean Decade. Read More
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Conservation /
Ecuador
Landmark ruling gives Ecuador's marine ecosystems legal rights
In a landmark ruling issued last year under its world-leading Rights for Nature law, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has stated that the country's marine ecosystems "have the right to maintain their natural life cycles, structure, functions, and evolutionary processes." Read More
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Conservation /
UK
UK's window to redress environmental harm "rapidly closing"
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is pressing the Labour government to “act urgently" not to miss the ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’ to achieve its commitments to the UK land and sea environments. Read More
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Climate change /
North Atlantic
AMOC study: Critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years
A new study found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has not declined in 60 years, indicating that it currently is more stable than expected.  Read More
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Endangered species /
North Atlantic
Outrage as NOAA abandons North Atlantic right whale protections
The NOAA Fisheries' decision not to increase protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales against vessel strikes has been branded "cowardice inaction" and "inexcusable" by conservation groups behind the decades-long campaign. Read More
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Endangered species /
Mexico
Mexico: "Goals met" to protect last eight vaquita from extinction
Mexico's vaquita have - over the last two decades - suffered a population decimation resulting primarily from entanglements in Mexican fishing gear used to illegally and indiscriminately harvest the also endangered totoaba fish. Read More
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Australia /
Conservation
Largest citizen science survey of Great Barrier Reef undertaken
At the end of 2024, Citizens of the Reef have completed in-water surveys on 320 reefs for their Great Reef Census 5, breaking the previous record from 2021. The project has now surveyed nearly a quarter of the entire Great Barrier Reef since it was initiated in 2020. Read More
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