Ocean Sentry
With bigger boats, deeper nets and better sonar than ever before, the fishing industry’s response to our insatiable appetite for fish risks transforming much of the world’s oceans into aquatic desert.
May, 2019
April, 2019
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30 April
Biodegradable bags can hold a full load of shopping after three years in the environment
Biodegradable and compostable plastic bags are still capable of carrying full loads of shopping after being exposed in the natural environment for three years, a new study shows.
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30 April
Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean
An international team of scientists has found part of the world’s largest ice shelf is melting 10 times faster than expected due to solar heating of the surrounding ocean.
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29 April
Large pod of pilot whales slaughtered in brutal grind in the Faroe Islands
This morning, 80-100 pilot whales were slaughtered in the second grindadráp (grind) of the year, on the island of Vágar in the northwest of the Faroe Islands archipelago.
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29 April
France shocked by mystery of headless seals on Brittany’s beaches
The discovery of a series of decapitated seals left on Brittany’s beaches has shocked France and prompted a police manhunt for their killers.
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29 April
15 whales already killed in the first month of Norway’s 2019 whaling season
The annual whaling season in the North Atlantic began on April 1. According to keikoconservation.com, 15 minke whales have been harpooned by 3 vessels in the first month of the Norway’s whaling season.
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26 April
World’s second largest emperor penguin colony ‘disappeared overnight’ with thousands of chicks wiped out
The world’s second largest emperor penguin colony is believed to have been effectively wiped out overnight, with thousands of chicks drowning after an ice shelf in Antarctica collapsed.
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25 April
Why are so many gray whales washing up dead on California’s coast?
For a few months twice a year, the waters off California are home to graceful gray whales migrating north or south between the coast of Mexico and the Bering Sea. This year, however, it seems that fewer whales are surviving the journey north.
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25 April
Antarctica: the final frontier for marine biological invasions?
The research is an important step in the quest to understand whether invasive species, introduced by shipping, will find the Antarctic marine environment more hospitable as Antarctica’s climate changes.
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25 April
Ocean species are disappearing faster than those on land
With fewer ways to seek refuge from warming, ocean-dwelling species are disappearing from their habitats at twice the rate of those on land, notes the research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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24 April
One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report
Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival depends.
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18 April
‘Exhausted’ polar bear found 700 km from home in Russian village
Environmental activists have blamed climate change for appearance of polar bear in the Kamchatka Peninsula.