ENVIRONMENT takes to the high seas on board the TARA, a boat that is sailing across the world’s oceans and seas to examine the effect climate change is having on them and their biodiversity.
The first Atlantic hurricane of the season, Bill, has strengthened into a category 4 hurricane. Large swells will begin to hit the Antilles on Wednesday, then the Bahamas and the south-eastern US mainland on Friday and Saturday.
The first Atlantic hurricane of the season, Bill, has strengthened into a category 3 hurricane but is expected to miss the US coastline as it veers north.
Tropical storm Bill has picked up enough power to become the first Atlantic hurricane of the season. The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre says Bill is still far from Land, but could soon become a "major hurricane".
A Maltese-registered ship, the Arctic Sea, was supposed to reach Algeria on August 4 but disappeared. There has been no communication from the crew of the since the end of July. Focus looks at theories about what happened.
The Russian operator of a Maltese-registered, Finnish-chartered ship which disappeared late last month after passing through the Dover Strait between France and Britian believes the vessel was hijacked.
The Russian Navy has joined the search for a missing ship last seen in the English Channel in July as maritime experts debated the possible causes of the mysterious disappearance of the Algeria-bound cargo vessel.
Canadian rescue workers have given up hope of finding survivors after Thursday's helicopter crash in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. Of the 18 passengers, only one person survived.
A search and rescue operation is underway in the Atlantic ocean just off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland after a helicopter carrying 18 people on board crashed on its way to an oil rig on Wednesday morning.
The Royal Navy has confirmed that Britain's HMS Vanguard and France's Le Triomphant nuclear-powered submarines, which were both carrying nuclear weapons, collided earlier this month in the Atlantic Ocean.
