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At the rate we’re killing them, we may soon see it firsthand.
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Ben Lecomte is swimming through tons of plastic. Pieces of it have gotten stuck to his face. He’s passed abandoned fishing nets that tangle and kill wildlife. He’s held pieces of broken storage crates blooming with algae and barnacles. And he wants us to see it all — so we know what we’ve done to the planet.
read moreSuccess! Trader Joe’s Will Cut...
In a testament to the power of people, Trader Joe’s is committing to reducing the amount of single-use plastics in its stores!
read moreDesalination plants are here, ...
Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn saltwater into freshwater in North America.
read moreEverything You Need to Know ab...
What is coral bleaching? Coral bleaching happens when corals lose their vibrant colors and turn white. But there’s a lot more to it than that.
read moreWhat’s Worrying the Plastics I...
This year’s Global Plastics Summit revealed an industry that sees big growth ahead but also serious challenges, from plastics in the ocean to climate impact.
read moreWe Were Missing Most of the Pl...
The highest levels of microplastics are found more than 650 feet below the surface.
read moreThe climate renegade
What happens when someone wants to go it alone on fixing the climate?
read moreWhat Adidas and Parley are doi...
From making shoes out marine debris to the Run For The Oceans global initiative, this dynamic partnership is tackling plastic pollution in a big way.
read moreAre Fossil Fuel Companies Dest...
New research links carbon emissions from the major oil and gas producers to dangerous changes in the oceans’ chemistry
read moreDocumenting Climate Change by ...
The New York Times photographer Josh Haner has spent the past four years capturing the effects of climate change around the world and under water.
read moreTrash found littering ocean fl...
On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: trash.
read moreWhy we need to stop eating fis...
The recent UN biodiversity report states that overfishing is a bigger threat to the world’s ocean than plastic or acidification.
read moreHumans Are Speeding Extinction...
Humans are transforming Earth’s natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, posing a dire threat to ecosystems that people all over the world depend on for their survival, a sweeping new United Nations assessment has concluded.
read more6 Signs Of Hope For The Ocean
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.
read moreHere’s what happens to &...
After 3 years of being buried and submerged, ‘biodegradable’ and ‘compostable’ single-use plastic bags could still hold a full load of groceries.
read more‘Coming Mass Extinction&...
Far-reaching global assessment details how humanity is undermining the very foundations of the natural world
read moreSynchro swimmers perform in a ...
Two young synchronized swimmers in Britain have made a splash with a recent performance. Kate Shortman (17) and Isabelle Thorpe (18) of Bristol attempted their World Championship synchro routine in a swimming pool full of floating plastic waste.
read moreOceans Are Getting Louder, Pos...
Increasing ship traffic, sonar and seismic air gun blasts now planned for offshore drilling may be disrupting migration, reproduction and even the chatter of the seas’ creatures.
read moreCalifornia teen collects 50,00...
Alex Weber, 18, has just published a study that analyzes how these balls enter and degrade in the water.
read moreWarming oceans likely to raise...
Seawater temperature is rising faster than predicted, which is likely to worsen extreme weather events around the world
read moreAs anti-plastic movements swee...
Environmentalists hailed the move, which according to new figures released this month, may have saved more than 1.5 billion bags from going into overstuffed kitchen drawers or landfills in less than six months.
read moreStudies Warn of Increasing Sea...
Ice loss in the Antarctic has tripled in just the last decade alone, and is currently losing 219 billion metric tons of ice annually. That number is up from 73 billion metric tons per year as of a decade ago.
read moreEU to ban common single-use pl...
“Europe now has a legislative model to defend and promote at international level, given the global nature of the issue of marine pollution involving plastics.”
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