coral reefs

Total’s Application to Drill Near Amazon Reef Rejected

Total’s Application to Drill Near Amazon Reef Rejected

Brazil’s environmental agency (Ibama) rejected Tuesday the application for a license to drill in the mouth of the Amazon Basin by the French company Total (operating in a joint venture with BP). This is an important step towards defending the Amazon Reef; a unique and largely unexplored ecosystem—Total’s closest block is only 8km away from […]

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    Watch Richard Branson Sink This WWII Ship and Giant Steel Octopus

    Watch Richard Branson Sink This WWII Ship and Giant Steel Octopus

    By Sabrina Imbler The Kodiak Queen had a long, storied life. One of five vessels to survive the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the ship later traveled up north to serve as an Alaska king crab vessel and salmon tender. She was one of the largest crab vessels at the time, plus one […]

    Big Oil Faces Big Trouble in the Amazon

    Big Oil Faces Big Trouble in the Amazon

    By Andy Rowell We have known for years that the days of finding easy oil outside the Middle East are over. It means that the oil industry has to go into fragile ecological areas like the Arctic or exploit dirty unconventionals like the tar sands or shale gas. Or the industry can go deep offshore, […]

    Coral Reefs Could All Die Off by 2050

    Coral Reefs Could All Die Off by 2050

    By Dahr Jamail When he was six years old, Dean Miller already knew he wanted to be a marine biologist. At that time, growing up in Australia, the world of marine biology seemed both spectacular and limitless, he said. “I wanted to study the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, the intricate and complex connections […]

    Great Barrier Reef Reaches ‘Terminal Stage’

    Great Barrier Reef Reaches ‘Terminal Stage’

    Warming oceans have caused a large bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef for the second year in a row, new aerial surveys show. This year’s bleaching extends much further south than areas impacted by the 2016 event and two thirds of the reef’s corals have now been impacted by bleaching. Reef scientists worry that […]

    Coral Reefs Are Dying, Only Hope Is Halting Fossil Fuel Emissions

    Coral Reefs Are Dying, Only Hope Is Halting Fossil Fuel Emissions

    The only hope to save the world’s coral reefs is to take immediate action to stop climate change, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The study analyzed 2016 bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef, finding that they were mostly driven by rising temperatures and that local efforts to reduce pollution […]

    Rate of Ocean Warming Quadrupled Since Late 20th Century, Study Reveals

    Rate of Ocean Warming Quadrupled Since Late 20th Century, Study Reveals

    By Roz Pidcock The buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is warming the upper ocean four times faster than during the period 1960-1990, according to new research. [facebook https://facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1482563161756616/ expand=1] The paper, published March 10 in the journal Science Advances, is the latest effort to piece together current and historical measurements from ships, self-propelled floats, satellites […]