The Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument (PRI Monument)... comprises a series of islands and atolls in such a remote area of the Pacific Ocean... Unfortunately for marine life, the 9,000-plus miles between Washington, DC and the PRI Monument do not provide it protection from
French endurance athlete Ben Lecomte just set out to become the first person to swim across the entire Pacific Ocean—a feat that will take more than six months if he logs eight hours in the water a day. More than a physical challenge, the swim is an act of conservation.
Ben Lecomte is a long-distance swimmer who, in 1998, became the first person to ever swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Now, he"s gearing up to attempt to swim the across the Pacific Ocean to raise awareness for plastic pollution.Click on the link below to read the full article.
The Aiga Folau o Samoa, the Samoa Voyaging Society, has brought Samoa"s va"atele, the Gaualofa back to Samoa...For the remainder of the year, Gaualofa will be in Samoa and visit communities with a newly developed Environmental Education Outreach Programme. Click on the link below to rea
A new film, "New Caledonia: Mother of the Coral Sea," showcases the relationship that the people of New Caledonia, a French territory in the southwest Pacific Ocean, have with nature.Click on the link below to read the full article.
The Volvo Ocean Race Science Programme has found levels of plastic in areas of the Southern Ocean " the world's remotest ocean - that have never before been tested.Click on the link below to read the full article.
A plastic carrier bag has been found 36,000ft below the ocean's surface - as the world's deepest trench is revealed to have become a rubbish dump.\Click on the link below to read the full article.
A campaigner from Wimbledon will row across the Pacific Ocean in June to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Pure Ocean is looking for projects in five major areas of the world: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and polar regions.Click on the link below for further details.
In 2012, an 18-year-old Dutch entrepreneur told a TEDx audience he was designing a device to clean-up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Click on the link below to read the full article.
