Ocean Rising
Luke McMillanIndependent ocean journalism
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 153 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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The Deep Brief #44 | 27 June 2026
There’s a patch of the North Atlantic, south of Greenland, that’s been getting colder for decades while almost everywhere else in the ocean warms up. This week, with more than 100 million Europeans sweating through temperatures above 35°C,...
The Heat Doesn’t Stop at the Waterline
It’s Tuesday evening, and this afternoon I had to collect my son from nursery early, because it had got too hot for him and he’d had enough of it. We came home, filled the paddling pool, and cracked open a box of ice lollies.
The hard par...
BREAKING NEWS: Iceland kills its first fin whales since 2023
Hvalur 9 has killed two fin whales in the first weekend of the annual hunt. Picture from 2023. (Credit: Hard to Port)
The whaling vessel Hvalur 9 shot two fin whales overnight. The animals were the first hunted in Icelandic waters since 20...
The Deep Brief #43 | 20 June 2026
On Thursday, the Trump administration reversed its decision to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $368 million deep-sea monitoring network that provides real-time data on currents, storms, oxygen levels, and ocean chemistry fro...
The Deep Brief #42 | 30 May 2026
Last week, this newsletter covered a study that found the deep basins of the central Arctic Ocean almost empty of fish. Echo sounders returned near-silence. Trawl nets came up with almost nothing. The researchers called it a biological dese...
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I write about the ocean. The science, the politics, and who’s actually responsible when things go wrong. Published in The Guardian, BBC Wildlife, Oceanographic.
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