After about 8,300 nautical miles Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne can’t wait to share their ‘tales of the high seas’ when they land in Cairns, Queensland Rowe (L) and Payne approach the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea on 17 October, 2025. Photograph: Brian Cassey/AFP/Getty Images Six months in a rowboat in the South… Read More Finish line in sight for British duo rowing nonstop from Peru to Australia
“This is not about security,” said the head of Gaza’s fishers’ union. “It’s economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation.” By Brett Wilkins – Common Dreams Israel has warned Gazans to stay out of the Mediterranean Sea or risk getting killed under wartime restrictions that critics say serve no security purpose and… Read More Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death
Robert Greenall The world’s oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge in the Pacific Ocean with her latest partner looking after the egg. Members… Read More World’s oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74
With lagoons once choked by rubbish, pressure from the appalled community led the government to ban certain single-use products Prianka Srinivasan For generations, the people of Erakor village in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu would pass their time swimming in the local lagoon. Ken Andrew, a local chief, remembers diving in its depths when he was a… Read More How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution
The rapid warming is not limited to the surface – the heat content of the Indian Ocean down to 2,000 meters is currently increasing at a rate of 4.5 zettajoules per decade. Ashutosh Mishra The Indian Ocean, a vital body of water bordered by 40 countries and home to a third of the global population,… Read More Indian Ocean racing towards unprecedented heatwave crisis
Will McGough, CNN On the north side of Molokaʻi — the least-visited Hawaiian Island — a piece of land called the Kalaupapa Peninsula juts out from the rest of the island. Lay eyes on it for the first time, and your reaction might be to call it a paradise. About 17 square miles (44 square… Read More At this national park in Hawaiʻi, a natural paradise and a medical purgatory
Loji Beach, nestled in a bay in West Java, is especially prone to plastic pile-ups. Ocean currents sweep the waste into the bay where it gets trapped in and ends up on the sand. “There’s no real community living here. There’s not a proper road to the beach, so there’s no local people cleaning it… Read More The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up
Marine researchers on a mission to record life hidden in the world’s oceans have reported they found about 100 potential new species — including one mystery starlike creature. The expedition team focused its investigation on the 500-mile (800-kilometer) long Bounty Trough, a little-explored part of the ocean off the coast of New Zealand, east of… Read More Scientists discover 100 potential new deep-sea species, including mystery creature
Before the port construction began, Vizhinjam was the largest and most important fishing village in Kerala. It was home to some 4,500 fishing families and several thousand boats Of all the Indian states I know, Kerala has the most active civil society organisations that flourish independently of governments and political parties. These groups work in… Read More Ramachandra Guha: Heed the words
Vic O’Sullivan Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as if you were one of the people themselves; express a life that has never found expression,” was, according to the poet WB Yeats, how he persuaded the playwright John Millington Synge to discover his muse – the desolate beauty of the Aran archipelago. Whatever was the… Read More Ocean views and authors lost: a literary tour of Ireland’s wild west coast
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