How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity?

Ocean monitoring is in trouble: without the US, it’s up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world’s deep-sea ecosystems

Defunding marine monitoring networks could jeopardise efforts to avoid losing track of the world’s oceans and their precious ecosystems, which drive the blue economy.

Mining companies may soon bypass UN rules and mine the deep sea

The deep sea holds vast mineral wealth. However, most valuable elements lie in international waters, outside any one country’s territory.

Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat

Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology. The post Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat appeared first on bioGraphic.

Save The Lammermuirs

The Lammermuirs are one of Scotland’s most treasured rural landscapes, known for their wildlife, open moorland, dark skies, hill farming, heritage and tranquillity. This morning, Benjamin Myers wrote to us with news of plans to build an industrial-scale data centre on them. Dear landscape-loving writers and friends, For 13 years I’ve been lucky enough to […]

This creature was dubbed the Sasquatch of the sea. Scientists just found it.

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests.

The World Cup is one wildfire away from an air quality disaster