My boat was ‘attacked’ by orcas too. What does this say about the sea?
This past weeks new reports of orca interactions off the Iberian coast has cast new light on these apex predators. Are they annoyed with us? Or just playing? Whatever the truth, such interactions a w… [read more]
Woman found dead after apparent grizzly bear attack near Yellowstone national park
A woman has been found dead in Montana after coming into contact with a grizzly bear on a trail west of Yellowstone national park.
The states fish, wildlife and parks department said the woman was f… [read more]
Extinction alert issued over critically endangered vaquita
The International Whaling Commission has issued the first extinction alert in its 70-year history, to warn of the danger facing the vaquita, the worlds tiniest and most critically endangered marine m… [read more]
Polar challenge: as the sea ice melts can countries come together to protect the Arctic Ocean?
When the Arctic explorer Pen Hadow had to start swimming from ice floe to ice floe, rather than walking, he experienced for himself what scientists and Indigenous peoples of the north have long known… [read more]
Fukushima: wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday Japan says
Japan is to begin releasing wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from Thursday, in defiance of opposition from fishing communities, China and some scientists.
The prime … [read more]
Florida man survives being stranded at sea for over 24 hours
A Florida man survived after being stranded at sea for more than 24 hours while enduring a blazing sun and stings from jellyfish as his sinking boat filled with water.
Charles Gregory, 25, left for … [read more]
At least 63 feared dead after boat capsizes off Cape Verde
More than 60 people are believed to have died after the boat they were travelling on from Senegal was found off Cape Verde, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.
At l… [read more]
‘It’s a miracle I’m alive’: the Pakistani policeman who survived June’s tragic Greek shipwreck tells his story
Usman Siddique, 27, from the city of Gujrat in the Punjab province of Pakistan, was on board the fishing trawler carrying hundreds of people from Libya to Italy that sank off the coast of Greece in J… [read more]
Cape Verde migrant boat drifted at sea for a month after alarm raised says NGO
A Spanish NGO alerted authorities from four countries on 20 July about a boat carrying an estimated 130 asylum seekers that was found earlier this week with just 38 survivors and the bodies of seven … [read more]
‘Tragic accident’: tech entrepreneur presumed dead after boat accident off Sydney Harbour
Police will continue the search for a second man lost overboard in a fishing boat accident off Sydney Harbour on Thursday, but say they do not believe he could have survived.
The body of art dealer … [read more]