Karen McVeigh
Karen McVeigh is a senior Guardian reporter working on the Seascape series covering the state of our oceans
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
- Seascape: the state of our oceansIce dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at riskAndreas B. Heide has been shortlisted for a Shackleton award for his work in the far north, getting up close to nature to connect people emotionally with a fragile ecosystem
April 2024
- Science WeeklyThe stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap? – podcastGuardian Seascapes reporter Karen McVeigh tells Madeleine Finlay about a recent trip to the Galápagos Islands, where mounds of plastic waste are washing up and causing problems for endemic species. Tackling this kind of waste and the overproduction of plastic were the topics on the table in Ottawa this week, as countries met to negotiate a global plastics treaty. But is progress too slow to address this pervasive problem?
March 2024
February 2024
- Seascape: the state of our oceans‘It’s going to finish the village’: how Morecambe Bay’s tragedy changed cocklepickers’ lives for everAfter 23 migrants died while searching for cockles in 2004, access to the lucrative fishery became more regulated. But local fishers claim the new rules mean their families have been left behind
January 2024
- Seascape: the state of our oceans‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sailClaims that Icon of the Seas, the vast new ship described as ‘human lasagne’, runs on clean fuel have been labelled greenwashing as LNG’s methane emissions are a more potent climate gas than CO2