According to Politico, the EU Copernicus Ocean State Report outlined three major threats to oceans: pollution, a warming planet, and the increasing loss of biodiversity. Each has the potential to have ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

Every year, the ocean quietly reminds us of the damage we have done. On Mediterranean beaches, locals often find strange, fibrous balls of dried seagrass known as “Neptune balls.” At first glance, ...

10 June 2025 — The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments available to astronomers. A massive green hydrogen plant proposed for ...