Oceans
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From the ‘red-tape’ slashing desires of the Brexiters to the judgment of green professionals, all indications are for weaker environmental protections
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Samphire, known as a culinary delicacy, plays an important role in saltmarshes – a powerful buffer against erosion from pounding waves
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New studies show that alarming numbers of tiny fibers from synthetic clothing are making their way from your washing machine into aquatic animals
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US weather agency says bleaching is now the most widespread on record and is likely to continue for unprecedented third year
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John Abraham: Improvements to ocean temperature measurements are making good measurements great
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From deep inside caves to the bottom of the ocean, wildlife photographer Danté Fenolio seeks out the creatures that don’t want to be found
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Innovations in renewables Does the Great Barrier Reef's death haunt the dreams of coal's company directors?
David RitterThe Business Council and Minerals Council of Australia have been silent about the bleaching of the reef but not all miners have to take the same path
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Renowned biologist E.O. Wilson wants to set aside half of the planet as protected areas for nature. But is this possible? And, if so, how would it work?
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John Abraham: Coral bleaching is becoming an increasingly frequent and severe problem in a hotter world
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Scientists hope large-scale maps will offer new insight into effects of warming and pollution as previous studies have almost always been done up close in the water
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Environment committee criticises voluntary action to end the tiny plastic particles that pollute seas, and slam the lack of labelling on microbead products
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Reef on the brink 'Horrid colonials destroy world heritage thing': we reveal the lies of Big Coral
First Dog on the MoonThe Australian government has appointed Ian the Climate Denialist Potato to explain to the world what is really happening to the Great Barrier Reef -
Party promise to compensate displaced fisheries and invest in shark research to assist in their conservation and protect humans from interactions with them
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Editorial: Many of the politicians fighting Australia’s election campaign talk about the economy and immigration but the world is listening for what they say about the impact of climate change
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This unlucky fish came unstuck when it was ‘swallowed up’ by a roaming jellyfish in waters off Byron Bay, Australia. The shot was captured by ocean photographer Tim Samuel, who says the fish was still alive and fighting to escape
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Jon Brodie from James Cook University says Australia needs to spend $1bn a year for the next 10 years to improve water quality
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Sy Montgomery’s account of octopuses will do much to rehabilitate the much maligned and mythologised creature
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams’s scholarly survey of the history of tides, from the Bristol Channel to the Bay of Fundy, is enlightening
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Tiny particles of plastic litter in oceans causing deaths, stunted growth and altering behaviour of some fish that feed on them, research shows
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Lobby Joe’s long voyage back to the ocean began when he was spotted by Christine Loughead, sitting alone in a tank in a northern Ontario supermarket
Australia's vast kelp forests devastated by marine heatwave, study reveals