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Man-made pollution is raising ocean acidity at least ten times faster than previously thought, a study says.

Blackpool may be one of England's most famous seaside resorts - but Liverpool was one of the first, archivists say.

Sea sponges can beam light deep inside their bodies, and do so using the natural equivalent of fibre optic cables, scientists find.

A £500m project to create 14 gas storage caverns a mile and a half under the Dorset coast is delayed.

Bad weather causes two boats sink while moored St Peter Port harbour in Guernsey.

Radical and controversial ideas to help fight climate change will be subjected to scrutiny by the UK's Royal Society.

Coastguards warn alcohol and the sea do not mix after two separate potentially-fatal incidents in Dorset.

An alternative fusion project is initiated in Europe that would seek abundant clean energy using a colossal laser.

Scientists are attempting to find out what is behind whale strandings.

Canada's Arctic ice shelves have lost a colossal area this year, scientists report, with one 50 sq km shelf breaking off completely.

Our Paris Correspondent Emma Jane Kirby looks at how the Rhone's pollution is affecting local people's lives.

A major recruitment drive is under way by the Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps.

A British woman rowing solo across the Pacific has managed to rendezvous mid-ocean with a raft made from plastic bottles, in an encounter which may have saved her life.

Elephant seals are helping scientists study the temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean.

A large chunk of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian coast, scientists say.

Russian scientists reach the bottom of the world's deepest body of fresh water - Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Conservationists are looking for volunteers to help spot basking sharks off the coast of Cornwall

Preparations are under way for what is believed to be the UK's first edible boat race in the Scottish Borders.

Saudi Arabia's Khurais oil field could soon add 10% to the Kingdom's output, though some say that the production rise could be followed by reserves running out.

A Plymouth-based cross-channel ferry is diverted to rescue the crew of a historic yacht which had sunk.

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