Adventure travel: The Hottest Destinations and Trends

Adventure travelers are broadening their horizons beyond well-known European cities to seek new frontiers off the beaten path, according to a new survey by international luxury travel network Virtuoso. Latin America is especially popular, as active travelers can experience their desired combination of nature and culture there. Remote, unspoiled destinations such as Antarctica and the Arctic are also … Read more

Microplastics should be banned in cosmetics to save oceans, MPs say

Environmental audit committee calls for ban after hearing that microbeads harm marine life and enter the food chain

The deep ocean: plunging to new depths to discover the largest migration on Earth

The deep ocean makes up 95% of Earth, yet only 0.0001% has been explored – the Guardian joined a mission off Bermuda looking deeper than ever before

Video: a dive into Bermuda’s hidden depths

Large cruise ship voyage through Arctic ice rekindles rows

Campaigners say Crystal Serenity trip puts at risk very environment tourists are travelling to see in Northwest Passage

Global fish production approaching sustainable limit, UN warns

Around 90% of the world’s stocks are now fully or overfished and production is set to increase further by 2025, according to report from UN’s food body

The sculpture controlled by bees: Wolfgang Buttress’s Hive

Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium are a hive-like structure of latticework, controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in a hive at Kew that is connected to the sculpture