Thousands of fish swarm into a huge shimmering ball - making a last desperate play for survival against an onslaught of dolphins and sharks. British Wildlife photographer Christopher Swann swam in the ...

An incredible photograph shows a blue shark sneaking up on a diver underwater in the Azores. Wildlife photographer Fabrice Guerin, 50, captured the ominous image as he and his team mates went diving ...

Several months on, whales were once again congregating in great numbers during summer in the Azores. A deep, fertile continental shelf attracts up to 28 species – a quarter of all cetaceans – ...

The Azores and Madeira offer you the lap of luxury, wondrous wildlife and rugged roaming – and one of your best chances to get away this summer. So... plot your great green escape to Portugal’s ...

My feet are clinging to a tiny ledge. I grip a precariously small outcropping with my left hand while flailing about for a substantial grip with my right. After a four-hour climb through an ...

Away from the Algarve, out in the Atlantic, the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are big on nature and small on crowds. The summits of huge underwater islands, they offer very different ...