A historic court case began in London today, as Britain’s high court opened a pre-trial hearing ahead of proceedings to be heard next year brought by...
As a warming climate opens up new waters to shipping and fossil fuel exploitation, researchers have warned that the US is completely unprepared to deal with...
Royal Dutch Shell has announced a “reinforcement” of its priorities at a management day in London. But campaigners have urged the oil giant to rethink its...
The UK government needs to get with the programme over the protection of the Arctic, campaigners have said. This follows the European parliament’s vote in favour...
The Arctic’s ice-free season is becoming longer by an average of five days every 10 years, scientists have said. According to a new study published in...
The impacts of climate change are being felt at even the deepest depths of the Antarctic ocean, a new study has found, in a discovery that...
The recently observed increase in summer sea-ice cover in Antarctica’s Ross Sea is likely to be short-lived, according to the findings of a new study that...
US secretary of state John Kerry has called for a massive expansion of the world’s marine reserves, urging governments to work together to protect our oceans....
Arctic nations are not sufficiently prepared for a major shipwreck in the region, a new study has warned. Marc Jacobsen, a Danish member of the Arctic...
A pioneering project that will attempt to improve understanding of current and future changes in the Arctic environment has been launched after an inaugural meeting in...
Some coastal communities in Wales may be abandoned to the advancing sea because of the rising cost of maintaining defences, it has been revealed. BBC Wales...
The organisation responsible for managing property owned by the crown, which includes most of the UK seabed and half the foreshore, is to continue paying an...
The US navy is to publish a new strategy in the coming weeks detailing how it plans to address the increase in commercial shipping traffic, oil...
A conservation group has warned that exfoliating skin products that have microbeads such as peels, scrubs and washes in them can add plastic to our seas...
Israel, Jordan and Palestine have agreed to build a pipeline in order to replenishing the rapidly declining Dead Sea. In a ceremony at the headquarters of...