oceans
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Extreme heat and plastic pollution push oceans to brink
Feb 14, 2022Two significant studies illustrate how burning fossil fuels and discarding plastic garbage have resulted in unparalleled environmental catastrophes for marine life, as world leaders gather in France to debate ocean preservation. Plastic pollution now affects almost... -
Six-fold jump in polar ice loss lifts global oceans
Mar 13, 2020Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, driving sea level rise that could see annual flooding by 2100 in regions home today to some 400 million people, scientists have warned.... -
Pope urges clean up of plastic waste from oceans
Sep 2, 2018Pope Francis on Saturday issued a call to clear up oceans threatened by plastic waste and underscored the need to provide drinking water to all as a basic right. “We cannot allow our seas and oceans... -
Large vessels are fishing 55 percent of world’s oceans
Feb 23, 2018More than half the world’s oceans are being fished by large commercial vessels, particularly from China, according to the first view from space of global fishing practices published Thursday. The report in the journal Science used... -
Bangladesh is thinking big by thinking blue and mintaining and restoring ocean ecosystems
Jan 10, 2018Our oceans cover more than 72% percent of the earth’s surface. It gives us food, essential protein and nutrition, as well as jobs (more than 350 million in poor countries), and recreation for a large portion... -
Sustainable use of oceans requires end to illegal fishing
Jun 12, 2017News Hour: The world’s oceans offer both challenges and solutions to the world’s Sustainable Development Agenda, and managing them more carefully is essential for global food security today and tomorrow as well as the livelihoods of...
