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  • A young man standing on a cliff holding a large piece of stone with four lines of fossilised bones that look like fingers as well as bigger bones further apart

    Fossils
    How one man’s near-death experience led to the discovery of the first Jurassic sea dragon in Wales

    Matthew Myerscough’s remarkable find is one of many detailed in his new book. But his journey into fossil hunting began years earlier, when he was caught in an avalanche
  • A boy and girl walk in the surf on a seafront promenade

    Against the tide
    One year, 17 towns, dozens of voices: what we heard along the coast of England and Wales

    Reporting from some of the poorest seaside towns revealed how young people have been left isolated – but remain resilient and full of hope
  • Three sperm whales swimming just under the surface of the sea

    Sperm whales
    Mammals change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover

  • A naval officer holding a large military drone on the deck of a ship

    Military technology
    How the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

  • 'Endurance' in full sail, in the ice (side view)Endurance' in full sail, in the ice (side view), Antarctica, 1914. Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 (Weddell Sea Party). (Photo by Frank Hurley/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

    Discovery
    Shipwrecks of Shackleton and Scott recreated in 3D digital form after deep sea expedition

  • An older man in a tartan waistcoat on a beach, the Waverley paddle steamer off Oban, and a young woman in an Icelandic jumper

    Oceans
    Giving nature a say: why Scottish marine scientists appointed the ocean to their board

  • A person, seen from behind, looks out over a calm sea.

    The rise of blue-space therapy
    How the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction

  • People seen onboard a small ship seemingly floating on ice, with a brightly lit tent next to it. The sky is lit up by the eerie green northern lights

    Voyage to the end of the world
    Floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

  • A woman walks past the empty frames of stilt houses on a beach.

    Sea level
    ‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves

  • A net is raised with hundreds of dogfish, an unintended bycatch.

    Environment
    Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals

Explore

  • The ship's wheel and the stern of the Endurance seen intact under the sea with different creatures on the rails, chains and cables

    Antarctic
    ‘The last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

    Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area
  • A close-up photo taken from below of a hammerhead shark with a scalloped edge to the wide front of its head

    Sharks
    The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

  • A figure in blue waterproof jacket knee-deep in sea foam during gale force winds on the beach at Sandwood Bay, Sutherland, Scotland.

    Pollution
    How did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?

  • A mosasaur skull

    Jurassic Oceans
    Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans

  • A hand reaches out to pick up a snail from a line of snails.

    Ghana
    Giving guitarfish a chance: one man’s mission to persuade fishers to farm giant snails instead

  • House dust magnified under a microscope showing tangled fibres and strands

    Technology
    ‘You have to be where the pollution is’: the inventor hoping to fix your washing machine to stop microplastics

  • A video grab of a tanker with its stern on fire and black smoke billowing from it

    Iran war
    ‘Everything went black. Then fire poured down’: one man’s terror onboard a ship hit in the conflict

Against the tide

  • Louella playing in her van, Penznace

    Against the tide
    ‘It can flip quickly from being idyllic’: the reality of life for young van dwellers priced out of Cornwall’s housing market

  • A person in a white cap and layered clothing jumps on a beach at dusk, with Blackpool tower illuminated in the background

    Against the tide
    Deprivation, resilience and a giant bunny: Polly Braden on capturing the ‘beauty and bleakness’ of coastal youth

  • A man dressed in a bunny outfit stands in front of what appears to be a fairground under construction

    Against the tide
    ‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

  • Jake Snell, 20, sits near the giant ‘Gulliver’ wind turbine at Ness Point, Suffolk

    Against the tide
    Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast

Multimedia

  • The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are proud to call home, even though high unemployment limits their opportunities. As part of the year-long Against the tide project reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales, the Guardian follows 19-year old Cohen, who is desperate to find a permanent job while running a mascot hire company and chasing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler

    Seaside towns
    Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

    Video9:07
  • Cornwall's housing crisis is forcing young people to live in vans. As second homes and short-term holiday lets drive up house prices, a growing number are turning to van life to stay in the place they love. The Guardian meets young people who say their van brings them freedom but also uncertainty, as they struggle to find water, safe places to park and secure a future

    Cornwall
    Has the county’s housing crisis created a van life generation?

    Video8:31
  • Underwater Photographer of the Year portrait winner Matty Smith's image of baby elephant seals taken in the The Falklands

    Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026
    Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower

    Gallery17
  • Thailand's critically endangered dugongs form the subject of a Guardian documentary, Thailand's Last Dugongs (15 mins). The background of this image has been extended for design purposes.

    Dugongs
    The influencer racing to save Thailand’s most endangered sea mammal

On our plate

  • Close-up image of cardboard takeaway tray of fish and chips with mushy pea fritter, slice of lemon, parsley, wrapped in paper.

    Cod
    Fish and chip shop favourite slips down the menu as prices soar

  • Two large fishing trawlers in the sea with a backdrop of snowy hills.

    Antarctica
    World’s largest krill harvester at centre of row over ‘blue tick’ sustainability label

  • Gulls flocking around a fishing boat pulled up on the rocky beach of a cove

    Seafood
    Supermarkets could help UK shoppers eat more sustainable local fish, study says

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    Sustainable fish
    Curb the cod, park the prawns: top chefs on how to swap out the ‘big five’ seafood

Explainers

  • Dead Coho salmon floating in a river.

    Explainer
    Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?

  • A large orange torpedo-shaped apparatus being launched from a ship

    The mystery of flight MH370
    Will a new search find the missing airliner after more than a decade?

  • A small pink shrimp-like crustacean on a stony beach

    Antarctic krill
    How did a paperclip-sized crustacean cause a diplomatic row – and why are they so important?

  • 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

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