British waters host some remarkably ancient creatures that have been swimming through our seas for decades or even centuries.

Hackney-born actor Idris Elba is among those honoured, having recieved a knighthood in recognition of his service to young ...

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Farms and cities use so much of the Colorado River's water that little remains for the river's own ecosystem. Will ...

Norway has postponed controversial deep–sea mining plans, a delay environmentalists say must be “the nail in the coffin” for the industry. Yesterday (3 December) the country’s Labour government ...

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have been revealed. Scientists have analysed samples from the seafloor in the ...

The newly elected Norwegian government today ruled out deep-sea mining licenses in Arctic waters until at least the end of 2029. The agreement to stop all exploration and exploitation of deep-sea ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

The UK government’s latest fishery management plans cover North Sea and Channel sprat, cockle, queen scallop, Southern North Sea and Channel skates and rays ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. The number of animals found in ...