Ocean Sentry
A quarter of the plastic waste produced by 22 countries and territories is released into nature every year of which roughly 600,000 tonnes ends up polluting the Mediterranean Sea. It’s the equivalent of roughly 563 plastic bottles being dumped into the Mediterranean Sea every second.
June, 2019
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5 June
Human civilization will crumble by 2050 if we don’t stop climate change now, new paper claims
According to the paper, climate change poses a “near- to a mid-term existential threat to human civilization,” and there’s a good chance society could collapse as soon as 2050 if serious mitigation actions aren’t taken in the next decade.
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5 June
Carnival cruise ships more polluting that all of Europe’s cars
Cruise brands run by Carnival Corporation emitted 10 times more cancer-causing gases in Europe than all of the continent’s passenger vehicles combined, according to data released on Wednesday.
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3 June
Ocean acidification makes some marine snails less able to resist predators
As humans release more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the gas is dissolving into the ocean, making seawater more acidic.
May, 2019
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31 May
Over half a million corals destroyed by port of Miami dredging, study finds
New findings reveal significant damage to Miami’s coral reefs from the 16-month dredging operation at the Port of Miami that began in 2013. The study found that sediment buried between half to 90 percent of nearby reefs, resulting in widespread coral death.
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28 May
‘Death blow’: Corals, algae don’t acclimatise to more acidic seas
Coral and algae species subjected to more acidic seawater showed no acclimatization to the new conditions for over a year, a new study has found, suggesting that vulnerable reefs may not be able to adapt fast enough to cope with climate change. With oceans absorbing about 22 million tonnes of carbon …
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28 May
More fishing vessels chasing fewer fish, new study finds
A new analysis of global fishing data has found the world’s fishing fleet doubled in size over the 65-years to 2015, but the amount of efforts expanded the catch fell more than 80 per cent.
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23 May
Climate change is driving plankton towards the poles, study says
Communities of zooplankton – microscopic drifting animals that underpin marine ecosystems – are migrating poleward in response to climate change, a study finds.
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23 May
The Mediterranean sea is now home to a giant plastic garbage “island”
The Mediterranean Sea has a new “island”. Unfortunately, this is not an island of idyllic beaches and olive groves, it’s a giant patch of floating plastic trash that’s accumulated off the coast of Corsica, a mountainous Mediterranean island.
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21 May
A quarter of West Antarctica’s ice is now unstable, study finds
New findings released on Thursday reveal that a quarter of the ice sheets in West Antarctica, the most vulnerable part of the continent, have destabilized. Ice loss has sped up fivefold across the region’s most imperiled glaciers in just 25 years.
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18 May
Drilling the seabed below Earth’s most powerful ocean current
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the planet’s most powerful and arguably most important. But much is still not known about how it works, including how it might now respond to human-induced climate change.
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17 May
414 million pieces of plastic found on remote island group in Indian Ocean
On the beaches of the tiny Cocos (Keeling) Islands, population 600, marine scientists found 977,000 shoes and 373,000 toothbrushes.