Tag: Oceans - Page 8

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  World's Largest Shark Sanctuary Declared -- Four Times the Size of California!

  When it comes to competitive contests of size, one theme we don't mind at all is world's largest conservation zone. The Marshall Islands have taken over, announcing the world's largest sanctuary for sharks,

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  Nitrate Pollution is Rising in the Pacific Ocean Near Japan and Korea

  Nitrate pollution around the costs of Japan and Korea could change the makeup of local marine life, both for plants and animals, according to scientists in both the U.S. and Korea. "This is the first evidence of increases in

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  Birds Caught in Fishing Lines Dying by the Thousands

  While it's no secret that keeping up with the world's demand for seafood puts terrible strain on ocean ecosystems, it turns out that fish aren't the only species feeling the pinch from overfishing. On the heels of a recent study

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  Lonely Jellyfish Produces Hundreds of Clones of Itself

  When you can clone yourself, you never have to be alone -- at least that's what marine biologists at Australia's Townsville aquarium are discovering. Recently, an injured Cassiopea jellyfish that had been kept alone in its own

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  How Method Turns Plastic Pollution in the Ocean Into Bottles

  In 2006, Method reached a milestone—we made our first bottle entirely from post-consumer recycled plastic. In the 5 years since then, Method has continued to innovate, and we now make tens of millions of plastic bottles a

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  Infographic: The Unbelievable Scale of Marine Trash

  What is the impact of our plastic use on the ocean's animal life? A new infographic from Project AWARE sheds a bit of light on the sheer scale of the problem, and the incredible number of animals affected by our

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  Rising Seas to Wash Away Iconic California Beaches, Tourism

  By the end of this century, rising sea levels may drown some of the most iconic beaches of this fun-in-the-sun state. California's famous beaches that are under threat, along with the tourism dollars they haul in,

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  Bringing Black Turtles Back from the Brink With Photography

  Have you heard of the black sea turtle? Odds are you haven't. Species like loggerhead, leatherback and hawksbill tend to dominate conservation news headlines. However, the black sea turtle (a morph of the green turtle)

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  New Species of Dolphin Discovered in Australia

  Researchers in Australia say they've made a remarkable discovery, identifying for one of the first times in over a hundred years a brand new species of dolphin. And, in addition to being the latest of its kind to be uncovered,

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  Rare Hawksbill Sea Turtles Discovered Living In Mangroves

  This is a Hawksbill turtle swimming in a coral reef, a place it is expected to be found. However, Hawksbill turtles have found a new place to live -- mangroves. Previously unknown

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  4,600 Sea Turtles Killed In US Fisheries Every Year -- But That's Good News

  The loss of sea turtles as bycatch among fisheries is heartbreaking. Currently, we kill an estimated 4,600 turtles every year due to fishing -- they are wrapped in the nets or hooked on bait lines

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  Fears Arise That Happy Feet May Have Been Eaten

  Just over seven days after biologists from New Zealand's Wellington Zoo released their famous surprise guest, a wayward emperor penguin named Happy Feet, back into the waters of the Southern Ocean to make his way home,

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  Hell's Broth: Gordon Ramsay Gets Up Close With Shark Fin Soup

  Gordon Ramsay has already been assaulted for documenting the shark fin industry. Daniel Kessler wrote that he was showered with gasoline and held at gunpoint in Costa Rica after making his way onto a tiny fishing vessel and taping

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  Dugongs, Turtles Face Mass Starvation After Storm

  Northeastern Australia may have dried out after devastating floods hit the area early this year, but for dugongs and turtles off the Queensland coast, the natural disaster's

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  The Week in Animal News: Bear Drives a Prius, Suffocating Fish and More (Slideshow)

  It's been a rough week overall for animals on TreeHugger: a bear totaled a Toyota Prius his first time behind the wheel, fish are suffocating in the Texas drought, and a seagull was kicked to death in New York by a man "walking for

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  Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: New Study Gives More Accurate Picture of the Disaster

  Looking Back on an Environmental TragedyIt's been more than a year since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up, releasing vast quantities of crude oil and natural gas

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  Protecting 4% of the Oceans at 9 Locations Could Save Most Marine Mammals Species

  The Least We Could DoYou might have heard of the 80/20 rule. It says that in many cases, you can get about 80% of the result for 20% of the effort. Well, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of

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  Seasteading: Are Independent Floating Micro-Nations The Next Big Wave?

  Seasteads -- offshore, oil-rig-style 'micro-countries' built out in the ocean, outside the laws of land-based nations -- are making the news again, thanks to a $1.25 million investment boost last week by PayPal founder and