The marine protected area of Sylt Outer Reef has unusually high biodiversity levels for North Sea standards: fields of hard substrates alternate with areas of gravel and coarse sand, interspersed with ...

Greenpeace activists dumped the first of about 150 three-ton granite slabs into the North Sea off Germany on Tuesday, an effort meant to deter bottom trawling and protect a reef. "Fishermen won't be ...