The Great Barrier Reef, a new BBC wildlife documentary starts on New Year's Day. Showcasing Australia's spectacular dive sites, rainforest, beach and mangroves, the series is the result of 600 hours of filming along the 2,000km-long reef. These stunning images are just a taster of what to expect
Camera teams have ventured deep down into the South-west Indian Ridge of the Indian Ocean to film the ecosystems surrounding 'black smokers', the volcanic underwater vents whose super-hot waters afford life to an array of weird deep-sea creatures, some of which are thought new to science, including yeti crabs and scaly-foot snails
Sean O'Hagan: A new photobook, Ama by Nina Poppe, takes us into the world of the famous Ise-Shima abalone divers, revealing an extraordinary matriarchal community holding out against the modern age
2 Dec 2011: Mark Lynas and George Monbiot: Fraser Nelson makes the biggest blunder of his career by putting Nils-Axel Mörner's, a serial promoter of nonsense, in his magazine