Coral Reef Conservation Program Awards $9.3 Million In Grants
October 28th, 2019 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Newly released grants are directed to diagnose coral reef degradation and to find solutions
Browsing the "oceans" Tag
Choices Made Now Are Critical For The Future Of Our Ocean & Cryosphere
October 11th, 2019 | by The Beam
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious and coordinated action to address unprecedented and enduring changes in the ocean and cryosphere
Climate Change Is Reducing The Beach Area At Ballena Marine National Park, Costa Rica
September 10th, 2019 | by The Beam
The accumulation of greenhouse emissions in the atmosphere has caused an increase in global temperatures, causing deterioration to the polar caps, as well as the expansion of saltwater molecules which end up occupying more space. As a result, the sea level rises and the wave range breaks closer to coastal areas
New Report On Plastics & Climate — The Hidden Costs Of A Plastic Planet
May 18th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
Amanda Kistler, Director of Communications and Development at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), has shared a new report with CleanTechnica. The full report, Plastic & Climate The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet, was released on May 15, 2019. Below is a summary of the report and several highlights from it
6 Signs Of Hope For The Ocean
May 2nd, 2019 | by World Resources Institute
It’s easy to lose sight of good news amid the barrage of negative stories about the threats facing the ocean—everything from growing plastic pollution to dying coral reefs. However, there is a lot to celebrate when you look more closely at ocean-related developments
30 Years After Exxon Valdez, New Perspectives On Fossil Fuel Dangers
March 25th, 2019 | by Nexus Media
The impacts of the spill left an entire generation reeling from the impacts of oil pollution
Animal Agriculture & Water
December 9th, 2018 | by Daryl Elliott
This is the part two of a multi-article series on the connection between animal agriculture and various societal and environmental problems. This article covers animal agriculture's connection to freshwater use, freshwater quality, water pollution violations, fishes and other sea animals, ocean hypoxia, and declining phytoplankton in the oceans
What Color Should Corals Be?
November 26th, 2018 | by The Beam
As the sea gets warmer, corals are bleaching. Coral-gardening projects are now flourishing all over the globe to prevent this underwater mangrove from turning completely white.
Ocean Plastic Cleanup Project Is Better News Than You Might Think
September 18th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Boyan's vision could have fallen apart at multiple points over the past five years. Reisser's study or someone else's could have shown a much more even distribution of plastics through dozens of meters of water column. Plastics could have degraded more quickly in ocean water and sunlight. He could have failed to capture many people's imaginations
World’s Coral Reefs Reaching The Point Of No Return
January 12th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The vast majority of the world's coral reefs are now reaching the point of no return -- the point at which it wouldn't even theoretically be possible to save them from disappearing completely.
Company Known As “The Ocean Cleanup” Aims To Launch Fleet Of Trash-Collecting Booms — Does The Approach Make Sense?
July 31st, 2017 | by James Ayre
A new company known as "The Ocean Cleanup" has reportedly raised more than $30 million over the last few years, which will be used to create a fleet of floating trash collectors to operate in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to CEO Boyan Slat
Over 8.3 Billion Metric Tons Of Plastics Made By Humans To Date, Most Of Which Now Litter
July 21st, 2017 | by James Ayre
More than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced by humans since large-scale production began back in the 1950s, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances
Coral Reefs Show Signs Of Both Climate Stress & Resilience
July 12th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Kim, a professor in the department of environmental sciences at American University, has been studying the fate of corals in our warming and increasingly polluted world — and he’s worried about what he’s found.
Artificial Reefs Could Help Save Our Oceans
July 12th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
The goal is that these plastic mimics — as the artificial reefs are known — which look and move like the real thing, will shelter and host the tiny creatures who typically live on the algae, and also will become scaffolds for real coralline algae to grow
Surfing The Climate-Changed Waves Of The Future With Author Michael Mazza
July 12th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
The seas are changing, as waters warm and currents shift. It’s an environment author Michael Mazza knows well, having followed his son’s surfing career, and it became the vision for his first novel, That Crazy Perfect Someday.
Latest Study Shows Ocean Temperatures Rising Faster Than Expected
July 6th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
A new study looks at ocean temperatures from three different sources and finds they all agree. The seas are getting warmer and faster than anyone realized.
Norwegian Billionaire Funding Largest Ocean Research Vessel Ever
May 29th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Kjell Inge Røkke, a wealthy Norwegian businessman, is partnering with the World Wildlife Foundation to build a Research Expedition Vessel that will conduct ocean research. When completed in 2020, it will be the world's largest superyacht.
World’s Oceans Experiencing Significant Decline In Dissolved Oxygen
May 7th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The amount of dissolved oxygen in the water of the world's oceans — an important marker of overall oceanic biological health/livability — has been declining at a notable rate for more than 2 decades now, according to a new analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology
Oceans May Be Storing 13% More Heat Than Previously Estimated
March 20th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Most of the "extra" heat that's retained as a result of anthropogenic climate change ends up in the oceans (~90%). To put that another way, the world's oceans are a giant heat sink, and they work to modulate the world's air temperatures to a large degree
Highly Concentrated Levels Of Toxic Industrial Pollution Found In Animals Living In Mariana & Kermadec Trenches (Deepest Ocean Trenches In World)
February 15th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Extremely concentrated levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), have been found in amphipods living in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana and Kermadec trenches — each over 10 kilometers deep and 7,000 kilometers away from each other — according to new research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
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