Iceland is on the verge of resuming commercial fin whale hunting this summer, with a single ministerial decision now standing between declared government policy and what conservationists are calling irreversible harm.

Speakers, Vala Arnadottir, Katrin Oddsdottir, Inga Thordar, and Luke McMillan join Oceanographic's Rob Hutchins to discuss and dissect this critical news story.

Iceland is on the verge of resuming commercial fin whale hunting this summer, with a single ministerial decision now standing between declared government policy and what conservationists are calling irreversible harm.

Coral reefs face catastrophic collapse. Thermal tipping points for widespread, irreversible dieback have already been passed at 1.2–1.4°C of global warming.

In this special edition recording of Oceanographic's Roundtable, we dissect the warning that without rapid emissions cuts, restoration, biobanking, and accelerated discovery through Ocean Census, we risk losing irreplaceable coral reef biodiversity, which underpins climate resilience, medicine, and human survival.

Researchers were analysing the geochemistry of the cores, to get an insight into historic wind speeds on the island, when they found layers of ancient bird poo preserved in the peatland.

This bird poo, or guano, now gives them a window into 8,000 years of seabird history, in one of the most important seabird breeding sites on Earth: Bird Island is home to vast colonies of wandering albatrosses, petrels and penguins. 

This recording is taken from our Oceanographic Roundtable panel session.

A new community screening initiative is bringing the facts about climate change and nature loss directly to the British public – and organisers want elected representatives sitting in the audience when it happens.

Scientists tracking gray whales in San Francisco Bay have found that nearly one in five individuals identified there died in its waters after becoming victims of vessel strikes, starvation, and a migration route that was never meant to pass through one of the world’s busiest ports.

On a foggy March morning, Eva Cahill spoke to the National Trust’s project manager Katy Gilchrist, and countryside manager Matt Wilson, to get a sense of the work being done in Essex's Blackwater Estuary to protect one of Britain's most storied, and most threatened, landscapes

The deep-sea covers more than half of the planet’s surface, yet less than 0.001% of it has ever been visually explored – an area approximately a tenth of the size of Belgium.

A new roadmap identifying 10,000 sites for deep-sea visual exploration, unveiled this week, is about to change that. 

Eva Cahill talks to National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell about the team's ambition.

This episode is a special recording from Oceanographic's Roundtable panel event.

Bottom trawling undermines local food security, nutrition and livelihoods in coastal communities, according to a new global study.

The destructive fishing practice involves towing nets to catch fish and other marine species living on or close to the seabed. It accounts for over a quarter of total global marine fish catches, and a commonly sold narrative is that the practice is critical to feed a growing population.

However, this new report finds that bottom trawling reduces the availability and accessibility of fish to coastal communities and diverts good-quality, nutritious fish to global markets.

This episode is a special recording of an Oceanographic Roundtable online panel event.

The WMO's 2025 climate report confirms the hottest eleven years on record, record ocean heat content, accelerating sea-level rise, and greenhouse gas concentrations at their highest in 800,000 years.