The Conversation
Thousands of Aging Shipwrecks Pose Global Environmental Threat
[By Fraser Stuart] At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from two world wars. These wre...
Eating Fish Exposes Consumers to Microplastics, With Unknown Risk
[By Prof. Amelie Chatel] It’s no secret: when we savor a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we&rs...
Study: Meltwater from the Arctic is Weakening Atlantic Ocean Circulation
[By Laurie Menviel and Gabriel Pontes] A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean...
Port of Weifang Becomes China's First "Carbon-Neutral" Seaport
[By Jiang Mengnan] Weifang Port has become the first port in China to officially achieve carbon neutrality, amid a hu...
Study: Harbor Dredging and Construction Have Increased Storm Surge Risks
[By Philip M. Orton and Stefan Talke] Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent...
Microplastic is Everywhere in the Ocean - Even in Dolphins' Breath
[By Leslie Hart and Miranda Dziobak] Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana ar...
Bottled up in the Black Sea Russia is Having a Dreadful Naval War
[By Colin Flint] The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has played out largely on land and in the air. It is a bitterl...
In North Sea, Pollution From Offshore Platforms "Grossly Underestimated"
[By Rosie Williams] Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large o...
Antarctic Krill Store an Astonishing Amount of CO2 in the Deep Ocean
[By Angus Atkinson, Anna Belcher and Emma Cavan] Antarctic krill – shrimp-like crustaceans that inhab...
Study: Far More of the World's Fisheries Are Depleted Than We Thought
[By Graham Edgar] When fish are taken from our oceans faster than they can reproduce, their population numbers decline. This ov...