Seaweed conservation ‘inadequate’ to fight alarming loss, report finds

Professor Juliet Brodie of London’s Natural History Museum has devoted her professional life to seaweeds. “When I started my research more than 40 years ago, there was very little interest in seaweeds, which were regarded as a minor part of marine environments,” she says. Four decades later, ocean scientists are beginning to recognise the vital … Read more

Shipping lines go cool on Arctic Ocean route

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the Venta Maersk, a ship owned by Denmark’s AP Møller-Maersk, set sail in 2018 from Vladivostok in the far east of Russia towards St Petersburg in the west, the voyage was reported as a … Read more