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A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches
In the Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, every tiny animal tested had plastic pollution hiding in its gut.
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Frenchman, 71, Attempts to Cross Atlantic Ocean in a Barrel Relying on Only Currents and Winds
Jean-Jacques Savin may be the most adventurous septuagenarian ever! According to multiple outlets — and his Facebook page — the 71-year-old Frenchman spent months building a barrel-shaped capsule, and on Wednesday, he boarded the vessel off the coast of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands. He is attempting to reach the Caribbean, which will require him to traverse most of the Atlantic Ocean, relying only on the current and wind, The New York Times reports.
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Slaking the World's Thirst with Seawater Dumps Toxic Brine in Oceans
The salt and chemicals in the brine left over from desalination can threaten local marine ecosystems
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Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life
Increasing ship traffic, sonar and seismic air gun blasts now planned for offshore drilling may be disrupting migration, reproduction and even the chatter of the seas’ creatures.
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Climate Change: Warming Oceans Set Heat Record in 2018
A team of Chinese and U.S. scientists estimated that the world’s oceans are warming by up to 40% faster than previously thought. The oceans are warming faster than previously estimated, setting a new temperature record in 2018 in a trend that is causing major damage to marine life, a Science article published Thursday warns. "How fast are the oceans warming?" was the main question addressed by a team of Chinese and U.S. scientists in a research which demonstrates that "global warming is here and has major consequences already. There is no doubt, none!"
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Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
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Ocean-Saving Device to Clean Up Great Pacific Garbage Patch Breaks, Will Return to Port
An ocean-saving device deployed in September to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has malfunctioned and will have to be towed back to port. During a routine inspection on Dec. 29, crew members discovered that a 60-foot end section of one of the booms that scoops up trash from the surface of the ocean had detached, 23-year-old inventor Boyan Slat wrote in a Jan. 1 blog post.
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An Ambitious Project to Clean Up the Ocean's Garbage Patch Isn't Working
The ocean holds hundreds of millions of tons of plastic, and none of it is going anywhere anytime soon. That’s especially true now that the only major project to clean up the oceans has failed. It turns out a test project launched three months ago designed to collect ocean trash hasn't collected much of it at all. In early September, a ship headed to an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the Pacific Garbage Patch—a region where all the trash dumped in the Pacific ends up. If anyone is going to clean up the ocean, it makes sense to start there, and the startup called Ocean Cleanup headed there with a new invention in tow.
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The World's Largest Ocean Cleanup Has Officially Begun
Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Check out another Forbes piece on how Ocean Cleanup aims to reuse and recycle the ocean plastic. The floating boom system was deployed on Saturday from San Francisco Bay and will undergo several weeks of testing before being hauled into action.
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With Humans Out of the Way, Humpbacks Are Flourishing—But So Are Orcas
Researchers are just now beginning to understand what happens when one whale species attacks another
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Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time — an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon
The Five Deeps expedition aims to explore the bottom of each of the world's oceans. The first stop is in Puerto Rico this December.
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Ocean Shock: The Planet's Hidden Climate Change Beneath the Waves.
Those rising temperatures are creating an epic underwater refugee crisis among marine life.
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World's top fishing nations to be given millions to protect oceans
Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch major grant for coastal communities to improve the health of oceans
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Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time — an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon
Imagine exploring a place so far from humanity that any message you send takes seven seconds to be heard. That's arguably more remote than the moon — radio waves sent back-and-forth during the Apollo missions took just 2.5 to 2.7 seconds to transmit. But this location isn't in space; it's at the bottom of the sea.
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Hybrids - Film
When marine wildlife suffer the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change...
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Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
A new study looked at sea, rock, and lake salt sold around the world. Here’s what you need to know.
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Giant Net Deployed to Pick Up Plastics in Pacific Ocean
A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe connected to an enormous net arrived Tuesday at its destination in the Pacific Ocean to begin cleaning up garbage. Dutch environmental start-up Ocean Cleanup Foundation launched the apparatus from San Francisco last month, CNN reports. It is expected to soon begin work clearing plastics and other debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest of five giant oceanic trash piles, located between California and Hawaii.
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Divers are attempting to regrow Great Barrier Reef with electricity
A trial is underway to restore damaged coral on the Great Barrier Reef using electricity. The reef has been severely assaulted in recent years by cyclones and back-to-back heatwaves. Nathan Cook at conservation group Reef Ecologic and his colleagues are attempting to regrow surviving coral fragments on steel frames. The frames are placed on damaged parts of the reef and stimulated with electricity to accelerate the coral’s growth (see video).
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Critics say cigarette filters, a health and environmental scourge, must go
Cigarette butts have long been the single most collected item on the world’s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over 32 years.
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