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As Norway becomes the first country to approve deep-sea mining, scientists are alarmed but supporters insist it will aid the energy transition What is deep-sea mining?

At the bottom of a ravine, near the mountain town of Ulog, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lie the sparkling turquoise waters of the Ljuta, a tributary of the Neretva. In its upper stretches, the Neretva…

A coalition of British seafood companies and retailers, including Young’s, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Waitrose, has condemned the “collective failure” of the UK, Norway and other states to reach…

Rotifers could be accelerating risk by splitting particles into thousands of potentially more dangerous nanoplastics A type of zooplankton found in marine and fresh water can ingest and break down…

Government delegations will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to hammer out details of what could be the first global treaty to tackle the plastic pollution crisis. A key focus for the discussions on Monday…