The hard-bitten, shark-hunting, salty sea dog from Steven Spielberg's 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws was a defining role for ...

A new study shows that melting sea ice due to increasing temperatures is leading to a "concerning" and severe decline in ...

A new study of Antarctic seals shows that environmental conditions are leading to a severe decline in their populations in the South Orkney Islands. New results are published today (Wednesday 18 ...

Speaking on a US chat show more than 30 years after leaving Orkney, Shaw spoke movingly of the influence the islands had on him and his family. "My father killed himself when I was 12," he said.

He credits moving to Townsend Court, a McCarthy Stone Retirement Living Plus development in Rushden, with helping him lead a ...

Researchers from the BAS have been monitoring seal numbers in the sub-Antarctic on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands, since the 1970s.

Compared to the South Orkney Islands, seals and penguins were rarely encountered in the echo sounder data from the Antarctic Peninsula. Especially in the autumn, fishing here competes intensively ...

Compared to the South Orkney Islands, seals and penguins were rarely encountered in the echo sounder data from the Antarctic Peninsula. Especially in the autumn, fishing here competes intensively ...

Councillors were told that Orkney and Shetland island councils had adopted a similar policy to pause the introduction of their visitor levy schemes. Tourism in the Western Isles has been growing, with ...