Oceans

Seismic Blasting Devastates Ocean’s Most Vital Organisms

Seismic Blasting Devastates Ocean’s Most Vital Organisms

By Francine Kershaw Seismic airguns exploding in the ocean in search for oil and gas have devastating impacts on zooplankton, which are critical food sources for marine mammals, according to a new study in Nature. The blasting decimates one of the ocean’s most vital groups of organisms over huge areas and may disrupt entire ecosystems. […]

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    DiCaprio Teams With Mexican Government to Save World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal

    DiCaprio Teams With Mexican Government to Save World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal

    Today is World Oceans Day, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Leonardo DiCaprio and telecom tycoon Carlos Slim just signed a memorandum of understanding committing to conserve marine ecosystems in the Gulf of California and to save the vaquita porpoise—the most endangered marine mammal in the world. The region’s rampant overfishing has driven the native […]

    Trump Blasted at UN Ocean Conference: U.S. ‘Main Threat to Mother Earth’

    Trump Blasted at UN Ocean Conference: U.S. ‘Main Threat to Mother Earth’

    Bolivian President Evo Morales blasted President Donald Trump‘s announcement that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. He called the U.S. one of the world’s “main polluters” and said Trump’s decision is akin to “denying science, turning your backs on multilateralism and attempting to deny a future to upcoming generations.” This “has made […]

    Trump Administration One Step Closer to Approving Seismic Airgun Blasting

    Trump Administration One Step Closer to Approving Seismic Airgun Blasting

    The Trump administration issued Monday a draft Incidental Harassment Authorizations for seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean, an extremely loud and dangerous process used to search for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean’s surface. By issuing these draft Incidental Harassment Authorizations for public comment, Oceana said the federal government is giving another […]

    Never Before Seen Footage of Rare Cuvier’s Beaked Whales

    Never Before Seen Footage of Rare Cuvier’s Beaked Whales

    Sea Shepherd’s research vessel the R/V Martin Sheen returned to Mexico’s Guadalupe Island to continue its study of Cuvier’s beaked whales, capturing never before seen drone footage of these rare and elusive cetaceans. During the two-week expedition, Mexican lead-scientist Gustavo Cardenas and American collaborator Jenny Trickey, deployed various acoustic devices to compare their effectiveness. The […]

    Toxic Cocktail of Man-Made Chemicals Found in Great Barrier Reef Turtles

    Toxic Cocktail of Man-Made Chemicals Found in Great Barrier Reef Turtles

    Green Sea Turtles in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are some of the world’s most majestic creatures. They have a lifespan of up to 50 years, but after recent results from blood tests on the marine animals, their health might be in jeopardy. Man-made substances and chemicals are contaminating the ocean and, consequently, sea turtles. After […]

    Will Trump’s Climate Denial Impact Outcome of Huge UN Ocean Conference Next Week?

    Will Trump’s Climate Denial Impact Outcome of Huge UN Ocean Conference Next Week?

    From severe coral bleaching to rising sea levels, climate change is drastically impacting the health of our oceans. However, these facts seem to evade the President of the United States. The Trump administration’s notorious skepticism of global warming is affecting plans for the upcoming United Nations ocean conference, according to Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella […]

    World’s Largest Beach Clean-Up: Trash-Ridden to Pristine in 2 Years

    World’s Largest Beach Clean-Up: Trash-Ridden to Pristine in 2 Years

    By Joe McCarthy A lot of people take part in community clean-up efforts—spending a Saturday morning picking up litter in a park, mowing an overgrown field or painting a fence. But not everyone has the drive to do what a young lawyer and environmentalist in Mumbai recently accomplished. In 2015, Afroz Shah moved to an […]