Europe's coastlines face an unprecedented challenge as storm surge patterns shift and intensify across the North Sea region. The once-predictable seasonal rhythm of winter storms has given way to more ...

Climate change is causing sea levels in the North Sea to rise. This poses a challenge for islands like Norderney at the German Nort-Sea coast, which have their own fresh water supply in the sandy ...

LONDON — Dramatic TV footage shows a U.S.-flagged oil tanker spewing black smoke and flames after a collision with a container ship loaded with cargo off Britain's North Sea coast. U.K. Coastguard and ...

LONDON — A fuel tanker and a cargo vessel were involved in a fiery collision off the British coast in the North Sea on Monday, the U.K. coast guard said. The tanker, MV Stena Immaculate, was struck by ...

Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of Britain after a cargo ship smashed into an oil tanker transporting jet fuel for the US military. The crash ignited a huge fire ...

A fishing cutter, photographed through the net of another boat, trawls for shrimp at Germany's North Sea coastline near the Jade river on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. A ban on inshore shrimp trawling is ...