In the summer of 2015, Laurie Weitkamp was walking on the beach near her coastal Oregon home when she saw something strange: The water was purple. A colony of tunicates, squishy cylindrical critters…
At least 17 dead dolphins washed up on Mauritius' beaches Wednesday, raising questions about what effect the oil spilled from the Japanese cargo tanker MV Wakashio, which ran aground on July 25, is…
TOKYO - Japan’s Nagashiki Shipping, which owns the bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius and caused a large oil spill, said on Tuesday it has completed scuttling of the front part of…
It is thought sonar may scare animals into surfacing too quickly, causing narcosis.
An unusual series of strandings and sightings of 29 rare beaked whales has taken place around the shores of…
Climate activists linked to Extinction Rebellion projected protest messages onto hull of the World vessel in Falmouth, Cornwall.
A “sea-faring sister” of climate resistance group Extinction…
The new EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy must include a target of 100MW of ocean energy installed in Europe by 2025. This would be enough to power 100,000 European homes a year, and would…
1) Pollution driven by huge increase in mask sales
The promotion of mask wearing as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19 has led to an extraordinary increase in the production of disposable masks:…
After a Japanese-owned oil tanker struck a reef off Mauritius on July 25, a prolonged period of inaction is threatening to become an ecological disaster.
Carrying nearly 4,000 metric tons of fuel…
Stranded oil tanker is breaking up, threatening even greater ecological devastation.
People living in Mauritius have described the devastation caused by an oil spill from a stranded tanker and…
The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe after a bulk carrier struck a coral reef off its coast in late July, an accident that has led to a large…
Greens deride $4.7m funding for technologies that may shade corals and make clouds more reflective as ‘Band-Aid solutions’
A government-backed research program to make the Great Barrier Reef more…
Wind-borne microplastics are a bigger source of ocean pollution than rivers, say scientists.
More than 200,000 tonnes of tiny plastic particles are blown from roads into the oceans every year,…
In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and his crew got stuck in windless waters in the North Pacific Ocean. As they motored along, searching for a breeze…
New research explores how lower-latitude oceans drive complex changes in the Arctic Ocean, pushing the region into a new reality distinct from the 20th-century norm.
The University of Alaska…
Warming water temperatures lower water oxygen levels, putting embryos and pregnant fish at risk, researchers say
Sixty per cent of studied fish species will be unable to survive in their current…
They can be a source of clean, renewable energy, sustainable food, and more.
Learning to swim, in a pool in the Florida Keys, was pure joy. I was five and reveled in blowing bubbles and doing…
An estimated 14,000 tons of microfibers sloughed off of soiled laundry is believed to be released into European oceans every year, further contributing to microplastic pollution with a threat of…
Activists are winning important fights against hydrocarbon exploration in the Mediterranean—but so much is still at stake.
In the Eastern Mediterranean, the seabed drops to depths of more than 17,…
In a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil hundreds of endangered species and a protected habitat for the sake of profit, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation …
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