Oceans

Well Done Guys! Fishermen Rescue Baby Seal Stuck in Plastic Netting

Well Done Guys! Fishermen Rescue Baby Seal Stuck in Plastic Netting

In this video posted to Facebook by Krystal Gamage, two fishermen off the coast of Owls Head, Maine, find a baby seal trapped in plastic fish netting. What happens next is worth watching until the end. Even in the waters of the Antarctic, long thought to be pristine, plastic pollution has recently been measured at […]

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    Canadian Fisherman Killed by Whale He Rescued

    Canadian Fisherman Killed by Whale He Rescued

    Dedicated whale rescuer Joe Howlett was struck and killed Monday by a North Atlantic right whale that he helped free. The critically endangered whale was entangled in commercial fishing gear off of New Brunswick, Canada. Howlett, a 59-year-old Canadian fisherman, was a co-founder of the Campobello Whale Rescue team and was on a Department of […]

    Stop Dumping Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico

    Stop Dumping Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico

    A Trump administration proposal to continue allowing oil companies to dump unlimited amounts of offshore fracking chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico violates federal law and threatens imperiled marine wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity warned this week. In a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 6 office on its proposed wastewater-discharge […]

    World’s Largest Tuna Company Commits to Major Fishing Reforms

    World’s Largest Tuna Company Commits to Major Fishing Reforms

    It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act! Tuna giant Thai Union, which owns brands such as John West, Chicken of the Sea, Petit Navire, […]

    19 Aquariums Pledge to Fight Plastic Pollution, Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags and Straws

    19 Aquariums Pledge to Fight Plastic Pollution, Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags and Straws

    A collaboration of aquariums across the U.S. have launched a campaign Monday to reduce ocean and freshwater plastic pollution. Notably, as of today, all 19 aquariums that belong to the Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP) have “eliminated” plastic straws and single-use carryout plastic bags at their facilities. Some of the biggest aquariums in the country are […]

    Scientists Solve Climate Hiatus ‘Puzzle of the Century’: So Now What?

    Scientists Solve Climate Hiatus ‘Puzzle of the Century’: So Now What?

    By Tim Radford Two U.S. scientists have solved the hypothetical puzzle of the century: how to explain the reported climate “hiatus” and reconcile two different ways of predicting the global temperature by 2100. They say they now know why computer simulations and the forecasts made by a study of the historical record don’t seem to […]

    1 Million Plastic Bottles Bought Every Minute, That’s Nearly 20,000 Every Second

    1 Million Plastic Bottles Bought Every Minute, That’s Nearly 20,000 Every Second

    A new report highlights the astounding amount of plastic bottles humans go through and the environmental havoc it wreaks. Citing figures from consumer market research company Euromonitor International, The Guardian reported that 1 million plastic bottles are bought every minute—or about 20,000 per second—around the globe. About 480 billion plastic bottles were purchased globally in […]

    Only 30 Left in the Wild: Saving the Nearly Extinct Vaquita

    Only 30 Left in the Wild: Saving the Nearly Extinct Vaquita

    In one of the longest campaigns in Sea Shepherd‘s history, Operation Milagro III concluded its six-month operation in Mexico’s Gulf of California to protect the near-extinct vaquita porpoise and the endangered totoaba bass. Two Sea Shepherd vessels, the M/V Farley Mowat, along with the M/Y Sam Simon, spent the last six months patrolling the vaquita […]