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Seascape: the state of our oceans

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  • A translucent creature with red eyes and red tentacles.

    Marine life
    Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever

    A young Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the heaviest invertebrate on earth, was filmed in the Atlantic Ocean
  • Author and naturalist Andrew Cleave sat on a group of rocks at Portland Bill, Dorset, UK on a blue-sky day.

    Why I'm obsessed with...
    I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions

    From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason
  • A man in a cap and sunglasses stands on a beach

    John Todd
    ‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

    John Todd’s eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans
  • A smiling man stands at a table with a chopping board covered in ingredients, with a harbour behind him

    Seafood
    The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

    Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industry
    • A man cutting a fin off a small shark with a knife

      Fishing industry
      US ports to use Covid-like tests to identify illegally trafficked seafood species

    • A white wandering albatross chick sits on a nest

      Invasive species
      ‘They started nibbling at its head’: the bold plan to rid an island of albatross-eating mice

    • Many screens showing images of the sea bed and a robot, being watched by three men who sit at a control panel.

      Deep-sea mining
      Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed

    • Project Jonah Whale rescue workshop on Sat March 1st 2025 at Scorching Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Photo copyright Mark Coote for The Guardian.

      Strandings
      Fake dolphins and frantic digging: the army of helpers learning to rescue New Zealand’s stranded whales

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Explore

  • An aerial view of a shoreline with landslips running in the sea

    Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea – but can one island live forever online?

    On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears
  • A woman wearing wellies stands ankle-deep at the edge of a large body of water

    I’m obsessed with fish that clean other fish: they remember their clients, much like a hairdresser

  • The rusty looking tugboat Navimar 3, which was detained by the authorities in Bangladesh due to unpaid fees.

    Shipping industry
    ‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of ships’ crews abandoned at sea

  • Four young women aged between 15 and 21 sit in a pale blue wooden boat with one rowing; they all wear grey knitted jumpers with traditional-looking patterns and have long fair or light-brown hair

    ‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon

  • a man in the sea clutching an inflatable raft

    ‘I closed my eyes to brace for impact’: the man who escaped a whale’s mouth

  • Jon Aars kneels on the snow next to a sedated polar bear

    Wildlife
    ‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes

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The real cost of cruises

  • A young woman in a colourful top sits on a large rock by a beach

    The real cost of cruises
    ‘The entire coastline will be cemented over’: the tiny Italian town set to become a dock for giant cruise ships

  • Cruise ships in the port of Juneau, Alaska, US.

    Sustainable tourism
    ‘We’ve become an amusement park’: the Alaskan town torn apart by cruise ship tourism

  • CGI image of a cruise ship sailing between icebergs

    Q&A
    Can you take a clean cruise holiday and which vessels are the worst emitters?

  • A collection of images showing building work and how one of the beaches will look, with a huge cruise ship behind it.

    Caribbean
    Paradise lost? How cruise companies are ‘eating up’ the Bahamas

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Multimedia

  • How scientists capture a polar bear – video

  • Illustration of what Deep's subsea complex would look like

    A mysterious millionaire and the quest to live under the sea – podcast

    Deep is a project backed by an anonymous millionaire to the tune of more than £100m that aims to establish a ‘permanent human presence’ under the sea from 2027. Guardian Seascape editor Lisa Bachelor visited the project on the Welsh border, and tells Madeleine Finlay what scientists hope to learn by spending extended periods living underwater
  • a seal swims towards the camera

    In pictures
    Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025

    The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life
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On our plate

  • Café du Parc Ostende 9979

    ‘Salty and soft, like a praline’: will Belgium’s national dish finally feature homegrown mussels?

  • A burger bun stacked with cheese, tomato and a patty that looks similar to those made with soya.

    ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts?

  • Restaurant, plate with mussels

    Reviving bivalves
    Time to be shellfish: why the UK should go back to feasting on oysters and mussels

  • Alex Karol eats oysters, holding a bottle of hot sauce, at an outdoor restaurant table

    Shellfish
    ‘I’ll have them with hot sauce’: should vegans eat oysters?

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Explainers

  • In Accra, Ghana, two boys run away from waves crashing on to a beach choked by discarded fast fashion.

    We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet

  • 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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