An Iranian oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China’s eastern coast, leaving its entire crew of 32 missing and causing the tanker to spill oil into the sea, authorities said today.

By March this year, the Arctic had shrunk to the smallest size ever recorded but we have an opportunity to reverse these trends when the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization meets this week, says Ranulph Fiennes.

The Costa Concordia disaster has highlighted safety issues abroad increasingly huge cruise liners.