Seagrasses are ancient plants that evolved in the ocean before moving to land and then back to sea about 140 million years ago, according to a Stanford University press release. Lying just below the surface of the coastal tides, seagrass meadows remove carbon dioxide from the air and produce the oxygen essential to life on […]
The nonprofit and environmental advocacy organization Heal the Bay’s annual Beach Report Card is here, and it names some of the cleanest and most polluted beaches in California (as well as farther along the coast, from Washington state to Tijuana, Mexico). The report gives each beach a letter grade, A through F, based on pollution […]
An unusually large pod of 30 killer whales was spotted frolicking in Monterey Bay, California, on Sunday. The group was made up of 11 families, including six whales from Canada, said Nancy Black, director of the nonprofit California Killer Whale Project and a marine biologist at Monterey Bay Whale Watch, as reported by CNN. Orcas […]
A new study has found that high concentrations of microplastics in sand could impact the temperature of the sand and interfere with incubating sea turtles. Researchers from Florida State University used sand from beaches at the FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and mixed it with black and white microplastics. The microplastics made up between 5% […]
Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore along the Texas Gulf Coast Friday, following a massive “fish kill” caused by lack of oxygen in the changing season’s warmer waters, according to officials. The fish began to wash ashore about 65 miles south of Houston in Brazoria County, according to Katie St. Clair, the sea life […]
This year, the 10th annual Photo Competition for United Nations World Ocean Day (UN WOD) received thousands of photo submissions from around the world surrounding the theme, Planet Ocean: Tides Are Changing.
In a new study, scientists have identified high levels of chemicals in the sea off the southern coasts of England. The chemicals include drugs that could be harming marine life. The Clean Harbours Partnership, along with Portsmouth University, Brunel University and local interest groups, collected hundreds of samples along the coasts of Hampshire and West […]
The shy, elusive vaquita is the smallest and most endangered porpoise in the world, with fewer than 20 remaining in their small range in the Gulf of California’s Sea of Cortez. Vaquitas have been hanging on against all odds, despite the consistent threat of entanglement in gillnets used to illegally catch totoaba, a large fish […]
Today we celebrate United Nations World Oceans Day (UN WOD), with this year’s theme: Planet Ocean: Tides Are Changing.
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