There is growing concern that the world"s oceans are in crisis because of climate change, overfishing, pollution and other stresses.
A sassy campaign wants plastic trash recognized as an actual country, in hopes of getting official attention.Click on the link below to read the full story.
As you bite down into a delicious piece of fish, you probably don"t think about what the fish itself ate " but perhaps you should. More than 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea.Click on the link below to read the full story.
A marine conservation who has just returned from an expedition to survey a massive 'garbage patch' in the South Pacific ocean says it's completely devoid of marine life.Click on the link below to read the full story.
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Marshall Islands have used the UN Oceans Conference underway in New York to amplify their long –standing concerns about nuclear contamination and pollution from World War 2 wrecks.
Marshall Islands wants more work done on clearing its oceans of the wrecks and debris of World War II. Foreign Minister John Salik says it is the hope of his administration that the risks posed by such wrecks including unexploded ordinances would be addressed. Original Article below
Few will have heard of PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls. The chemicals were banned in the late 70s amid fears about their toxicity. Recent estimates suggest that Europe produced anything between 299,000 and 585,000 tonnes of PCBs.
Human-created pollution is not a minor threat to our oceans, but a massive and worsening issue...The Ocean Cleanup has announced an update to its pollution-collecting technology.
Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group is one of the world"s most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted...Marine scientists have found the tiny landmass in the Pacific to is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic - the highest density of anthropogen
