The growing threat of the cable cutters

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

In January 2022, a volcanic eruption ripped apart the underwater cables that connect the Pacific island of Tonga to the world. At a stroke, the country was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t experienced in more than a century.

Technology has transformed sailing, but was the past better or worse? Andy Du Port shares his views

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He knew the layout of the nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, the source of the water that cools its reactors, and the high-voltage cables that move its electricity. He knew where a shell had rec

Anchored in a quiet loch on the west coast of Scotland, Katherine Knight discovered the seabed was barren mud. She raised a small community and set out to replant the underwater desert with life-giving seagrass