Deepest points of the world’s oceans revealed

Following one of the most adventurous ocean expeditions ever, scientists have returned precise measurements for the deepest points in each of the world’s five major oceans.  Data from the Five Deeps Expedition (FDE), which performed dives over the course of 10 months from 2018 to 2019, confirms for the first time the locations of the … Read more

Deepest points of the world’s oceans revealed

Following one of the most adventurous ocean expeditions ever, scientists have returned precise measurements for the deepest points in each of the world’s five major oceans.  Data from the Five Deeps Expedition (FDE), which performed dives over the course of 10 months from 2018 to 2019, confirms for the first time the locations of the … Read more

Australia weather: Loggerhead Turtles washed ashore NSW coast as rain swells oceans

Huge coastal swells sees baby TURTLES washed ashore and rescuers issue a desperate warning to beachgoers that could save the hatchlings lives Wildlife rescuers warned of several Loggerhead Turtles washing up to shore  Turtles have been spotted washing in and remaining beached due to weather Walkers urged to call for help and not throw turtles  … Read more

How good is your geography? Quiz challenges your knowledge of everything from deserts to oceans

How good is your geography? Quiz challenges your knowledge of everything from deserts to oceans Quiz by US-based trivia platform Playbuzz challenges geography knowledge  Quizmaster Terry Stein invites you to find out how much you know about world Do you think you know enough about the planet to get a perfect 20/20 score?    By Claire … Read more

Countryside and oceans should be considered along with economic growth, major new report says 

Countryside and oceans should be considered along with economic growth in bid to protect nature, major new report says A 600-page review will be launched online  by Prince Charles and Sir David Author Professor Dasgupta argues that nature is a ‘blind spot’ in economics Review calls for humanity to change food production and consumption By … Read more

Nature: Warming oceans are causing shark hatchlings to be born smaller, undernourished and exhausted

Baby shark doom doom doom: Warming oceans are causing shark hatchlings to be born smaller, undernourished and exhausted Researchers from Australia studied epaulette sharks from the Great Barrier Reef This species lays eggs that are left unprotected for four months before hatching The team explored the impact of increasing water temperatures up to 87.8°F Warmer conditions cause … Read more

French woman, 59, is charged with Ocean’s Eleven-style diamond theft at Boodles of Mayfair

French woman, 59, is charged with Ocean’s Eleven-style diamond theft ‘by swapping gems for pebbles’ at Boodles of Mayfair Lulu Lakatos, 59, was charged with conspiracy to steal over theft in March 2016 The suspect was extradited from France yesterday and appeared at court today She is alleged to have posed as gemologist before swapping … Read more

Rivers and oceans are being treated like ‘open sewers’ by water firms, charity claims

Oceans and rivers are being treated like ‘open sewers’ with more than 3,000 raw sewage pollution incidents discovered in the past year, campaigners claim. The annual Water Quality Report by campaign group Surfers Against Sewage tracked sewage discharges into public bathing waters across the UK in 2019 and 2020. The charity says most of the … Read more

A 66 million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur unearthed in Morocco crossed oceans to get there

The remains of a duckbilled dinosaur that lived 66 million years ago has been found in Morocco and it must have crossed at least 250 miles of ocean to get there, scientists claim. Paleontologists from the University of Bath and others found the fossilised remains of the unusual dinosaur, dubbed Ajnabia odysseus, in rocks in … Read more

Five-eyed shrimp that swam the oceans over 500 million years ago could be the ‘missing link’

A type of shrimp with five eyes that swam the oceans of Earth half a billion years ago may be the ‘missing link’ in the evolution of arthropods, scientists claim. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the three inch long creature, that dates back 520 million years, in a rock formation in Yunnan … Read more