Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 11
Oceans have lost 2 percent of oxygen, says study
The world’s oceans have lost more than two percent of their oxygen since 1960, with potentially devastating consequences for sea plants and animals, marine scientists said Wednesday. In those five and a half decades, parts ...
- February 23, 2017
Ocean heat hits record high - UN
Ocean heat hit a record high in 2018, the United Nations said Thursday, raising urgent new concerns about the threat global warming is posing to marine life. In its latest State of the Climate overview, the World Meteorological ...
- March 30, 2019
Plastic pollution builds up in Arctic waters
Even though few people live in the Artic, some seas in the region are heavily polluted with plastic because of an Atlantic ocean current which dumps debris there, researchers said Wednesday. Scientists aboard the globe ...
- April 27, 2017
Tourism threatens Thai sea gypsies
They roamed the seas off the Andaman Coast for generations, but Thailand's sea gypsies say their traditional way of life is under threat and their homes at risk from a tourism boom. The plight of the once-nomadic ...
- June 11, 2013
Asia’s ocean pollution crisis
A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian “paradise” islands — grim images of the plastic crisis that has gripped ...
- June 6, 2018
Greenland's rapid ice loss driven by warming seas
Greenland's continent-sized icesheet is being significantly eroded by winds and currents that drive warmer water into fjords, where it carves out the base of coastal glaciers, according to studies released Sunday. The icy ...
- February 16, 2010
World's oceans are heating up at a quickening pace - study
The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, ...
- January 12, 2019
Oceans heating faster than previously thought: Study
The word's oceans have absorbed more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change. Oceans over more than two thirds of the planet's ...
- November 25, 2018
US backs UN call to save oceans
The United States (US) on Friday joined all 192 other United Nations (UN) member states in releasing a “Call to Action” to save the oceans but disassociated itself from joint efforts to combat climate change. The declaration ...
- June 11, 2017
Untouched ocean habitats rapidly shrinking - study
Shipping, pollution, and overfishing have reduced areas of "wilderness" to just 13 percent of the world's oceans, a study showed on Friday (July 27), warning that untouched marine habitats could completely vanish within ...
- July 28, 2018