New 'Paying Twice' report puts hidden cost of nature-harming subsidies, including those behind overfishing, at up to $24.7 ...

IUCN’s first global coral reefs assessment finds 96% of shallow-water reef ecosystems Critically Endangered; most risk ...

Mexico weakens protections for the vaquita, cutting the gillnet ban area by 86%. Conservation groups warn it will hasten ...

The study finds that reliance on small-scale fishing and weak governance, leave coastal communities more vulnerable to ...

The UK has given the go ahead to the controversial Jackdaw oil and gas project in the North Sea, buckling to lobbyists and ...

As delegates assemble for UN biodiversity talks, a new report argues for a network of MPAs to create migratory safe passages ...

Two subsidiaries of the deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company have launched legal proceedings against the International Seabed Authority (ISA), in order to block an investigation into their ...

The number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study has found. In 2010, a BP-operated oil well failed, dumping 134 million ...

The United States is preparing to hold the first deep-sea mining lease sale in its history, offering more than 31 million acres of seabed off American Samoa to mining companies. The Department of the ...

A landmark global study has identified more than 165,000 square kilometres of coral reefs across 71 countries with the strongest potential to survive a warming world – tripling previous estimates and ...

New genetic research has provided compelling evidence that the Arabian Sea humpback whale is a distinct evolutionary lineage, supporting the potential for it to be recognised as a fourth subspecies of ...

Seabirds in parts of the Solent have had a record breeding year, with more nesting pairs of Sandwich Terns, Black-headed Gulls, Little Terns, Ringed Plovers and Oystercatchers, and notable success for ...