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• Deep Sea Microplastic Fibers Concerns Researchers

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The Natural History Museum reports: Deep-sea sediments are accumulating tiny fragments of plastic in surprisingly high concentrations, scientists have discovered. The accumulations represent a previously unknown repository of global plastic waste. Marine plastic debris in surface waters and coastal sediments… Read More ›

• Seafood Piracy Impacts Sustainability Efforts

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Americans eat more seafood than just about anyone else. Most of it is imported from abroad. And a lot of it — perhaps 25 percent of wild-caught seafood imports, according to fisheries experts — is illegally caught. The White House… Read More ›

• Massive Oil Spill in the Niger Delta

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “We can’t go fishing anymore. It has destroyed our fishing equipment,” Boma Macaulay, a fisherman from Bonny told Reuters, adding that it was the worst spill in at least five years.

• Plastics: “Most Pervasive Pollutant in the Ocean”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Plastic is the most pervasive pollutant in the ocean today. But researchers have struggled to estimate just how much of the 6 billion tons of plastic that has been manufactured since the mid-20th century ultimately winds up in the ocean…. Read More ›

• New Findings on Arabian Sea Humpback Whales

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Editor’s Note: A December 29, 2014 update to this story is added at this story’s end. The Arabian Sea humpback whale may be the most isolated humpback population on the planet, keeping its home in the same place for tens… Read More ›

• Researching Corals in Acidic Ocean

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A key reef-building coral that can survive a more acidic ocean is giving scientists hope that the world’s reefs stand a chance against climate change. An international team of researchers has been using baby corals from the Great Barrier Reef… Read More ›

• Seabird Mortality Rises on Pacific West Coast

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Rare changes in wind patterns this fall have caused the Pacific Ocean off our coast to warm to historic levels, according to scientists. In mid-October, it was 65 degrees off the Farallon Islands and in Monterey Bay; in most years, water temperatures in those areas would be in the high 50s or low 60s.

• Researchers Identify Virus Attacking Sea Stars

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  From Mexico to Alaska, starfish have been mysteriously melting for more than a year. When a starfish first gets sick, its arms pretzel up and white lesions form on its skin. Next, the starfish, normally plush with water absorbed to… Read More ›

• Evidence of Plastic Microbeads in Aquifers

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “Microbeads have only been around for the last decade. There’s significant indications that the L.A. River is affected and there’s evidence that it’s already finding their way to our aquifers,” says Bloom.

• Can Coastal Dead Zones Return to Life?

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Dead zones, or ocean hypoxia, is in the news this week. Besides the Gulf of Mexico dead zones, the Chesapeake Bay has struggled with oxygen depleted water as well. The following is an abbreviated report from the Washington Post. Three… Read More ›

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