Marine Life

South Korea's youngest 'sea women' find smaller catches in warming seas

Every year the waters are a little less icy – warming as much as 2.6 times more than the world average – changing the undersea habitat and casting doubts on the future of "haenyeo" or sea women.

Does the UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant create more problems than it solves?

Part of Abu Dhabi’s clean energy push, the $32 billion nuclear power station risks destabilising a volatile region with detrimental consequences for the environment.

The Mediterranean is under stress, needs urgent action, says a UN report

UN Environment Programme’s new report, produced by Plan Bleu, warns that the Mediterranean basin is under environmental stress and recommends a five-prong action plan.

Marine life under threat from plummeting oxygen levels

Around 700 sites have been identified globally with low oxygen levels - up from only 45 in the 1960s, says the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.