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Karen McVeigh

Karen McVeigh is a senior Guardian reporter working on the Seascape series covering the state of our oceans

December 2024

  • Restaurant, plate with mussels

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Time to be shellfish: why the UK should go back to feasting on oysters and mussels

    Popular in Victorian times, they are sustainable, a good source of protein and brilliant for biodiversity, say those championing the bivalves
  • Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, a leading Palestinian psychiatrist dealing with mental health in Gaza

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    ‘We can’t give up on 1 million children’: the charity bringing psychological first aid to Gazans

    In Gaza, Dr Yasser Abu Jamei offers hope and healing to families shattered by Israel’s war on the strip
  • A grabber arm reaches towards black coral under the sea

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Norway forced to pause plans to mine deep sea in Arctic

    Small Socialist Left party threatens to block budget if government becomes first to issue licences for deep-sea exploration

November 2024

  • CGI image of a cruise ship sailing between icebergs

    The real cost of cruises
    Can you take a clean cruise holiday and which vessels are the worst emitters?

  • Top deck of a cruise ship with smoke coming out of a funnel

    The real cost of cruises
    Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than Scotland’s biggest city – report

  • A fisherman picks though huge amounts of plastic waste washed up on the shore of a beach

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

  • A fin whale, balaenoptera physalus, in the Atlantic Ocean off Pico Island, the Azores.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Iceland’s president urged to intervene over licence for Europe’s last whaler

October 2024

  • Two puffins, Rathlin Nature Reserve, County Antrim - The RSPB

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s a monster task’: can culling ferrets and rats save one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies?

  • A bottlenose dolphin swims towards the camera with its mouth open

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Microplastics found in dolphin breath for first time – study

September 2024

  • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

  • A fisher inspects a fishing net on a trawler in the Adriatic Sea

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    More than 80% of EU marine protected areas are ineffective, study shows

July 2024

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

  • A white plastic bag on a beach with the sea behind

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced

  • An elderly man with white hair and a beard being led in handcuffs by an official

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

  • A woman wearing a pink rash vest sitting on a surfboard in the sea

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans

June 2024

  • Rivers, land and seascape are being rewilded along a 100-mile stretch of coastline in Sussex Bay.

    The Great British Seaside
    ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast

    Walking a 100-mile stretch of coastline reveals how a pioneering project is transforming the seascape, rivers and land
  • Emma Nziok DJ-ing on stage

    African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals

    ‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Iceland grants country’s last whaling company licence to hunt 128 fin whales

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Where do sharks hang out?’: the race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

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