Three sailors dead after ship sinks in North Sea

Three sailors died and a further eight were missing tonight after a cargo ship collided with a container ship and sank in one of the North Sea's busiest shipping lanes. The collision took place just off the coast...

Helicopter crash at the North Sea latest

The last 8 people missing from the Super Puma helicopter crash helicopter which crashed in the North Sea killing 16 people have been found and brought back to land. The salvage ship, the Bibby Topaz also brought...

Helicopter crashes in North Sea killing at least 8

There has been a helicopter crash in the North Sea, off the Aberdeenshire coast of Scotland. The aircraft was returning from a platform belonging to BP around 2pm when it went down 35 miles off the Aberdeenshire...

Climate change 'more extreme' than feared

The WWF warns that climate change is happening faster and is more extreme than feared. The relatively recent 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is said by the agency to be already out...

Viking War Ship 'The Sea Stallion' home in Denmark !

Text:  Lars Normann from "The Sea Stallion"- site of "Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark" " The Sea Stallion from Glendalough is approaching the culmination of the biggest experimental project in the...

Record high waves, but dikes pass test

10-metre high waves beat the North Sea coast of the Netherlands overnight, but no major problems were reported by Friday morning. The north-west storm that raced over the Netherlands with wind speeds of more...

Energy Expert Sees Hazard in Costly Oil

LONDON, Oct. 31 - The rapidly growing appetite for fossil fuels in China and India is likely to help keep oil prices high for the foreseeable future, threatening a global economic slowdown, a top energy expert...

Deadly 'Kyrill' Slams Parts of Europe

Update: Read the latest on Kyrill... This is on the front of Spiegel, it looks pretty crazy as a powerful storm, "Kyrill"is hitting hard across Northern & Central Europe. The report states that 12 people...

U-864 threatens North Sea mercury spill

German submarine U-864 was sunk by the Royal Navy some 62 years ago. She now lies on the bottom of the North Sea at a depth of 500 feet, just off the isle of Fedje. The exact location was discovered by the Norwegian navy in 2003, prompting research into U-864’s final...

Study Sees North Sea Tsunami Risk

"The last known tsunami to hit Europe was over 8,000 years ago. But new research reveals that there have been a number of deep-sea earthquakes since then, and that a landslide along the continental slopes could...

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