Protecting Coral Reefs From Plastic Pollution: The IUCN Congress as a Catalyst for Action and Collaboration
This week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) sees its World Conservation Congress kick off in Abu ...
Tag: oceans
Jellyfish Invasion: What’s Behind the Growing Population?
At the Paluel nuclear plant in France, a nuclear power plant saw a 2.4 gigawatt reduction in output. The reason? ...
A Global Imperative: Moratorium on Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling
The specter of climate change looms large over our planet, casting a long shadow on the future of communities across ...
How Startup Bluekali Cleans Latin America’s Rivers and Oceans
Our oceans and rivers are choking on plastic waste, devastating marine life and poisoning the water that communities depend on. ...
High Seas Treaty: The Missing Key to Achieving SDG14
In The Sea Around Us, one of the most successful books ever written about the natural world, Rachel Carson describes ...
What Are Marine Heatwaves and Why Are They Happening More Often?
High temperatures and heatwaves across the globe saw records broken in July 2023 on land and in the oceans. The oceans serve as ...
You Can’t Mine the Seabed Without Proper Rules
July 10, 2023, is shaping as D-Day for the world’s oceans. That is the day after a two-year deadline placed on the ...
Giving the Ocean a ‘Fighting Chance’: UN Adopts Historic High Seas Treaty
In March this year, the United Nations (UN) agreed on a legally-binding treaty to protect marine life on high seas. ...
‘Global Blue Deal’: Why the Ocean Needs It
At the third UN Trade Forum, which took place in Geneva on May 8 and 9, the United Nations Conference ...
Plastic Waste Is Creating New Communities on the Ocean’s Surface
A recent study published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal on April 17 revealed that the Great Pacific Garbage ...
Good Sign for Ocean Recovery: Whales May be Coming Back to the UK
In December 2022, UK seas saw a pair of humpback whales off of the Isles of Scilly, including the return ...
The Ocean Got so Loud That Dolphins Must Now ‘Shout’ Over Noise Pollution
A new study has found that noise pollution severely impairs successful cooperation between bottlenose dolphins, causing them to “shout” to ...
