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Seascape: the state of our oceans

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  • Two sleek seals on a beach bare their teeth at each other

    South Africa
    ‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers

    Seals have been biting people in the first big outbreak of the disease in marine mammals, writes Nick Dall in Cape Town
  • A woman wearing a pink rash vest sitting on a surfboard in the sea

    Oceans
    ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans

    A rising number of lawsuits in courts around the world are holding governments and corporations to account for their treatment of the seas and those who rely on them
  • A large sea cow or dugong with its elongated snout stirring up sediment as it grazes the seabed

    Marine life
    ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

    A study of the sea cow population in the South Pacific islands is urgently needed, say experts, as numbers fall dramatically
  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    Sharks
    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

    Despite curbs on certain species, trade in the cheap fish is booming. But worried conservationists say most people do not even realise they are eating shark
    • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

      Pollution
      Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

    • A man with his back to the camera holds a fishing rod over the side of a pier.

      Mental health and wellbeing
      ‘Water just makes you feel better’: the Cornish angling club that’s not about catching fish

    • Sockeye salmon in the Adams river of British Columbia

      Canada to ban open-net pen salmon farming in British Columbia

    • A crowd of people hold up protest signs saying 'No more fossil fuels' and 'Kill the drill'

      Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences

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The Great British Seaside

  • Richard Forrest walks along Lyme Regis beach in Dorset, where he regularly hunts for fossils.

    Photo essay
    The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past

    • A girl plays on the beach at Weymouth in 1998, as shot by Martin Parr.

      The Great British Seaside
      Punch and Judy, penny slots and Pontins: why the great British seaside continues to hold our imagination

    • A puffin with a beak full of sand eels.

      Wildlife
      Puffins, catsharks and sea squirts: how to spot wildlife on the British coast

    • Rivers, land and seascape are being rewilded along a 100-mile stretch of coastline in Sussex Bay.

      Rewilding
      ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast

    • A man on a rock above a beach with a wooden board in his hand

      Avoiding pollutants
      From swimwear to toys: how to go plastic-free for a day at the beach

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Explore

  • The Nature Conservancy (1) (7ade11a07221df8df1e36dcbeb046639934b21fd) The Nature Conservancy (1) REEF BUILDING

    From sea to plate … to sea! Hong Kong puts oyster shells to new use

    Discarded shells from restaurants and hotels are being used to restore damaged oyster ecosystems, promote biodiversity and lower pollution in the city’s bays
  • La Mer beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

    ‘A tough neighbourhood’: how Gulf scientists are reaching across political divides to help coral reefs

  • A young man loads a bucket of crabs off a fishing trawler

    Minnows into seadogs: inside England’s new fishing apprenticeship

  • A crab crawls across tiny white beads of polythene

    ‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them

  • A black and white film publicity pic of a man in a cap holding a kipper away from him and holding his nose.

    Comeback kipper: the fall and rise of Britain’s favourite breakfast fish

  • Kristján Loftsson

    The last whale hunter in Iceland

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On our plate

  • Jonathan Williams in front of his mobile kitchen in Angle, Pembrokeshire.

    Served up from the sea: 13 of the best sustainable eateries on the British coast

  • A blue crab being held up by a man

    ‘Anything can be edible’
    How Italians are making a meal of invasive crabs

  • A man lifting a fish from the water with his hands

    Scaling up
    The app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities

  • An Atlantic salmon on a petri dish.

    From petri dish to plate
    Meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table

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In pictures

  • An octopus on an underwater mountain off the coast of Chile

    Dragons, sea toads and the longest creature ever seen found on undersea peaks off South America

  • Andreas breaking ice following a freedive in Trollfjorden

    Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

    Andreas B. Heide has been shortlisted for a Shackleton award for his work in the far north, getting up close to nature to connect people emotionally with a fragile ecosystem
  • Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population

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    Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video

    Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population
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Explainers

  • Aerial view of a diamond mining vessel with a helipad at sea

    Deep-sea mining: why is interest growing and what are the risks?

  • A house destroyed by marine erosion and rising sea levels in the town of El Bosque, Mexico.

    ‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise

  • Crew member organises net as a purse seine fishing boat sets out looking for salmon.

    Have we reached peak fish?

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