TopicOcean pollution

Topic: Ocean pollution

‘Vigyan Shri’ awardee says Indian Ocean remains poorly explored, hails Samudrayaan deep-sea mission

Soumya Pillai - August 26, 2024

In an interview with ThePrint, Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi talks about the need for ocean studies with climate change challenges and other related issues.

Countries pledge to raise $12 billion to protect coral reefs from pollution, overfishing

David Stanway - October 3, 2023

However, experts warned the funding would only be a drop in the ocean unless broader climate risks are addressed.

High Seas Treaty not about putting nature in a bell jar. It’s a bid to save oceans

Gemma Parkes - March 11, 2023

National governments still need to formally adopt and ratify the treaty but as conference President Rena Lee said, "the ship has reached the shore."

The world has wronged its oceans, but 2022 can be the year for redemption, says UN

Peter Thomson - May 19, 2022

Steady abuse has turned our oceans into a breathless, acerbic mess. Its high time we turned to innovative solutions

93% of the world’s ocean is unprotected. It can cost more than three billion people

Sharon Ikeazor - May 7, 2022

Protecting and restoring ocean habitats such as seagrass beds, salt marshes, and mangroves, and their associated food webs are critical.

Plastic pollution is pushing marine life towards extinction, WWF study says

Douglas Broom - February 27, 2022

The level of microplastics in our oceans is set to grow 50 fold by the end of the century, raising the risk of widespread extinction of marine life.

Scientists used a robotic submarine to find out how much plastic the ocean floor has

Natalie Marchant - November 8, 2020

There’s more than twice the amount of plastic on the ocean floor than on its surface.

World was about to close deals that could save oceans, and then Covid changed everything

Virginia Gewin - June 8, 2020

The oceans are critical to any effort to slow global warming. Delay in global agreements has only made matters that much more desperate.

High CO2 levels, vanishing glaciers, extinctions – why climate change is more real in 2019

Sandhya Ramesh - December 31, 2019

Scientists have found that the Greenland ice sheet is melting seven times faster, extinctions occurring 500 times more rapidly and food supply faces threat.

World’s oceans may seem unimportant, but letting it die isn’t an option

Noah Smith - November 1, 2019

Unless something is done, the world’s seas — home to more than half of the planet’s life — will be irrevocably despoiled.

Topic: Ocean pollution

‘Vigyan Shri’ awardee says Indian Ocean remains poorly explored, hails Samudrayaan deep-sea mission

Countries pledge to raise $12 billion to protect coral reefs from pollution, overfishing

High Seas Treaty not about putting nature in a bell jar. It’s a bid to save oceans

The world has wronged its oceans, but 2022 can be the year for redemption, says UN

93% of the world’s ocean is unprotected. It can cost more than three billion people

Plastic pollution is pushing marine life towards extinction, WWF study says

Scientists used a robotic submarine to find out how much plastic the ocean floor has

World was about to close deals that could save oceans, and then Covid changed everything

High CO2 levels, vanishing glaciers, extinctions – why climate change is more real in 2019

World’s oceans may seem unimportant, but letting it die isn’t an option

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