There are obvious reasons to care about the Earth's environment - global warming, and the litter and rubbish we can actually see are physically apparent to us.
However, the damage to our oceans is somewhat less obvious - because most of the environmental issues the seas face are submerged in the de...
The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in less than a decade, Princeton University researchers have found.
Unfortunately, the same principle can apply to plastic debris, radioactive...
The oil pipeline rupture at Refugio State Beach may have spilled as much as 105,000 gallons of crude, authorities said. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
By JULIE CART, JACK DOLAN AND DOUG SMITH
Plains Pipeline, the large Texas-based company responsible for the pipe that ruptured in Sa...
41. A swan built its nest on garbage.
42. This boy was collecting recyclable garbage in the polluted water.
43. A sea bird polluted by oil in the ocean.
44. Penguins covered with oil.
45. Homeless koala.
46.In Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, a old man was taking a shower in the lake full of...
11. An albatross died because of eating plastic in the ocean
12. The serious haze in Hong Kong forces people to take picture with another picture.
13. People sail on the Chao Lake, which was filled with alga, in Hefei, China.
14. The serious air pollution in Beijing. People have to wear mas...
The Earth is suffering from human activities. Here are 50 photos show human's "masterpiece".
1. A turtle deformed by plastic ring.
2. A seal is tangled by abandoned fishing wire, causing its neck split.
3. A sea bird is covered by oil. The only thing it can do is waiting to die.
4. I...
Plastic bottles lying in the gutter. Grocery bags tangled in branches. Food wrappers scuttling across the ground on a windy day. Although such examples of litter easily come to mind, they only hint at the serious and growing problem of plastic pollution — a problem mostly hidden from view.
The prob...
Human activity has pushed marine life toward a “precipice of major extinction event,” according to a recent study conducted by a team of U.S. scientists. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, warned that unless immediate action is taken to mitigate the damage, the rate of e...
Official trailer for Mission Blue, a Netflix original documentary.
Mission Blue tells the story of world-renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle as she travels the globe on an urgent mission to shed light on the dire condition of Earth's oceans....
In the Pacific Ocean, four ocean currents merge to form the North Pacific gyre, also known as the North Pacific Subtropical High, which spans the western US to Japan, and Hawaii to California. This enormous rotating vortex has collected floating garbage from across the Pacific, but much of the debri...
Ocean acidification can no longer remain on the periphery of the international debates on climate change and the environment and should be addressed by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other global environmental conventions, urges IUCN and the International Ocean Acidification Refer...
The U.S. Strategic Plan for Federal Research and Monitoring of Ocean Acidification, released on March 27th, will guide research and monitoring investments to improve understanding of ocean acidification, its potential impacts on marine species and ecosystems, and adaptation and&n...
Creatures which live deep beneath the ocean surface are likely to be badly hit by climate change over the next century, a new study says.
The study, by an international research team from the UK, Canada, Australia and France, is the first to quantify future losses in deep-sea marine life,...
In the heated exchanges about the consequences of the ongoing federal government shutdown, one important impact has been largely overlooked: the devastating consequences of this closure on the work of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Like the National Institutes of Health, th...
Acidification of the Arctic Ocean is occurring faster than projected according to new findings published in the journal PLOS ONE. The increase in rate is being blamed on rapidly melting sea ice, a process that may have important consequences for health of the Arctic ecosystem.
Ocean...
It may seem uncomfortably close to science fiction, but robots are moving ever nearer to having humanlike abilities to smell, feel and see their surroundings, allowing them to operate more independently and perform some of the dangerous, dirty and dull jobs people don’t want to do.
They can “smell”...
Thirteen-year-old Adam Mendoza wants everyone to listen to the ocean.
"It's calling for our help," said the South El Monte resident.
The Monte Vista Elementary eighth-grader's simple drawing of a kid holding a shell and a talk bubble that says 'LISTEN' won a contest held by The Malibu Foundation f...
When President Barack Obama convenes his cabinet in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, one might be left with the impression that defenders of our oceans are rather pointedly underrepresented. The Department of Commerce, which oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has...
