‘Blue acceleration’: the mounting competition for ocean resources
Fifty years of data from shipping to mining reveal how human pressures on the ocean have grown exponentially.
Category Archives: oceans
Analysis: The natural solutions to climate change held in the ocean
Protecting and restoring mangrove swamps, salt marshes, seagrass meadows and kelp forests would halt biodiversity loss and soak up carbon emissions.
Analysis: Full speed ahead: 2020 is a pivotal year for the ocean
Global Fishing Watch CEO Tony Long looks back at 2019 and sets a course for 2020.
Climate change is threatening the life support systems of the oceans
Study finds that oxygen depletion in the oceans is so serious it is threatening the oceans ability to support life.
COP25 to keep ocean focus despite moving to Madrid
COP25 to focus on the oceans despite it having moved to Madrid.
Oil exploration threatens Brazil‘s Abrolhos marine park
Brazil allows the auction of oil fields near marine protected area against advice of its environmental agency.
The world’s oceans are heating up at an alarming rate
The world’s oceans are warming faster than previously expected a group of scientists has warned.
Opinion: Coca-Cola is the world’s biggest plastics polluter
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestle are the three biggest plastic polluters in the world, according to a global audit.
Plastic: are we addicted to it?
Plastic is not evil, it is the use we make of it that needs substantial change
Opinion: UNESCO must declare the Great Barrier Reef endangered
UNESCO must state that the Great Barrier Reef is in trouble in order to protect it.
