Latest Stories in Ocean Conservation - Page 4
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Rebuilding Global Fisheries Would Make Them 5x More Valuable While Improving Oceanic Health
Ocean fishing is clearly a case of tragedy of the commons. Everybody would do better if they all scaled back to allow fisheries to recover, but nobody wants to be the one doing the scaling back...
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Study Finds Bird Ingestion of Plastic in North Pacific Among Highest in the World
Seabirds are eating ocean plastic pollution at an all time rate, and the problem is only getting worse.
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Clever Whale Shark Sucks Fish Out of a Fishing Net
Check out this beautiful whale shark. It's the Einstein of whale sharks....
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South Korea Scraps Plan to Resume Whaling
Pressure from key security and trading partners is believed to have influenced the decision.
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Looking for a Non-Polluted Beach to Cool Down?
The NRDC has published its 2012 report on the water quality of vacation beaches all around the USA.
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3-4 Times More Sharks Killed Annually Than UN Stats Show
Demand for shark fins drives the global shark trade, with Hong Kong responsible for half the world's catch.
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Cute Animated Video Explains Unique Biology and Value of Coral Reefs
A smart video featuring the art of Jim Toomey and the narration of Celine Cousteau is an excellent teaching tool for ocean conservation.
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Coral Reefs Rebounded from Hot Seas In Past, Study Says
Though scientists say that coral reefs are suffering from warming waters, new research shows that it has happened before -- and corals were able to bounce back.
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Greenland Stymied on Request to Increase Whaling Quota
Latin American countries led opposition to the request, saying that Greenland's sale of whale meat to tourists was no different than ordinary, banned, commercial whaling.
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South Korea Plans to Resume Killing Whales for 'Scientific' Purposes, Too
At the IWC meeting South Korea has proposed that it needs to resume so-called scientific whaling because its fish stocks are depleting, overlooking that overfishing by humans might be to blame.
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Greenland's Whale Meat Going More to Tourists Than Locals
Under an exemption to the international ban on commercial whaling, Greenland can hunt whales for local consumption. A new investigation reveals however that it's tourists who are really eating the meat.
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First Ever Map of Floating Plastic Aims to Save Baby Sea Turtles
With an ambitious goal of mapping floating plastic pollution, one PhD student from Australia is hoping to make a big difference for sea turtles.
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What Australia's Oceans Are Missing: Marine Scientists
Considering how vast and varied the waters around Australia are known to be, one expert says the country suffers from an "acute lack skilled marine researchers."
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Ocean Conservation Progress 'Pitiful' Over Past 20 Years
The Zoological Society of London says, with few exceptions, the pledges nations made at the 1992 Earth Summit have not been met at all.
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Australia to Create World's Largest Marine Reserve
Approximately one-third of Australia's territorial waters will be under legal protection -- totally a whopping 1.2 million square miles of ocean.
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Invasive Species Carried by Floating Dock from Japanese Tsunami
Tons of of organisms cruised from Japan to the northwestern coast of the USA on a Floating Dock.
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BP Oil Spill Messed Up Microbial Communities on Gulf of Mexico Shores
Not too surprisingly, the BP oil spill had a big impact on various ecosystems in the Gulf, and that includes some of those that we can't see with the naked eye. Microbes might be small, but what they lack in stature they make up for in importance.
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“The Ocean We Want To Know" Music Video Parodies Gotye for World Oceans Day
In celebration of World Oceans Day, One World One Ocean has created a cute and catchy video with a tune you'll probably recognize.
