oceans

Plastic Rocks Found On Remote Volcanic Island Are A “Terrifying” Discovery

Photo: "Plastic rocks" found on Trindade Island in the state of Espirito Santo is seen at the laboratory of the…

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Meet the sargassum belt: 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida

Photo: People remove Sargassum in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in April, 2022. Researchers expect this year will bring another massive…

2 years ago

UN delegates ‘High Seas Treaty’ protects marine biodiversity in international waters

Photo: Unsplash/Thomas Kelley Marine biologists have discovered that whales capture tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere. “This action is a…

2 years ago

NOAA Rejects Wespac’s Proposed Fishing Rule for Hawaii Marine National Monument

Photo: NOAA has rejected Wespac’s proposed rule to allow Native Hawaiian subsistence fishermen to recoup their cost of fishing in…

2 years ago

Tracking microplastics ‘fingerprints’

Photo: Post storm debris made up mostly of plastics and vegetation is scattered across the high tide line in 2019.…

2 years ago