News Stories relating to "ocean"

The plastic kind - Plastic pollution is a big problem in the ocean right now and we can't wait until tomorrow to clean it up.

By dragging fine-meshed nets along the ocean's surface, researchers found that while there is a great deal of it there, the volume seems to have stopped increasing, probably due to new laws that...

UPDATE: Lobsters too! - Since July, there have been a number of mysterious ocean kills reported from around the world, only one of which has been mentioned by the general media in the west. The kills involve a massive mollusk kill in Pakistan, seal mutilations in Great Britain and, most recently, a huge kill in Brazilian waters...

Something most of us are not aware of: An amazing amount of trash is dumped into the ocean. It comes from landfills and from cruise ships that throw their trash directly into the sea. The ocean is becoming more and more acidic, and a surprising amount of debris is being dumped in space too.

Outer space security has become an increasingly...

We throw trash in it?no wonder it's not doing that well. Only about 4% of the world's oceans are not damaged by human activities such as fishing and pollution. Human-caused global warming has also taken a toll on coral reefs?but it turns out that they may get some NATURAL protection from the ocean.

A study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that the underwater world is becoming a noisier place, with unknown effects on marine life. They?ve discovered that there has been a tenfold increase in the underwater ocean noise off Southern California?s coast in the last 40 years. This has to be having a bad effect on marine...

The legendary giant squid, which has only recently beendiscovered to be real, is being killed by all the noise inthe ocean. Unusually high numbers of them are washing up onSpanish beaches. Scientists think they're being killed bythe loud, low frequency sounds made by oil drilling in theocean.

Scientists have never seen living giant...

It's not just a book by Stephen King, it's an oxygen-starved area in the ocean where nothing can live. Scientists say there are more of these being created than ever before. Fishermen in Martha's Vineyard are discovering "Sea Balls" that have washed on shore. And that island paradise you dream of visiting? Don't look too closely.

The trash that ends up in the ocean has become a vehicle for the transportation of exotic marine life into new ports. This is threatening global biodiversity, particularly in the Southern Ocean.

David Barnes of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) made a 10-year study of human litter, mostly plastic, that washed ashore on 30 remotes...