It’s easier to steal another seabird’s meal than catch your own fish. But this behaviour by skuas, frigatebirds and gulls is ...

Conservation groups are calling for action as populations of seabirds decline on UK cliffs.

The amount of plastic in petrels breeding at Inaccessible Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean has remained constant ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology shows that the ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

Manila faces a critical decision: exploit its natural gas reserves in the Reed Bank, a potential flashpoint with China, or risk losing them to Beijing.

Found among coral reefs in the Red Sea, it has large canines and a fierce expression, even though it is only 2 cm long. Its ... Beyond Needles: Introducing a New, Nature-Based Approach for ...

The robots’ task is to better understand how rapidly ice is melting — and how quickly that could cause catastrophic sea level rise. In March, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, prompting local officials to close the area to people. Caution tape has been put up but crowds are ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Faster-than-average sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification are threatening the Pacific Islands ...

The new entries include the Arctic tern, known for its incredible migration, the great skua, or pirate of the sea, and two types of gull. The UK is known for its colonies of seabirds nesting in ...