Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...

They’re calibrated.’” Photosynthetic organisms such as plants, plankton and algae use sunlight to produce oxygen that cycles into the ocean depths, but previous studies conducted in the deep ...

Most of the time, that is: Many of modern history’s greatest ecological disasters were produced by the flickering of ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific as it shifted between El Niño and ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

Ocean sciences span the physics, chemistry, and biology of marine systems. The field encompasses ocean circulation, energy dissipation, marine biology, ecology, biogeochemical cycles, water mass ...

Ocean life has been declining worldwide, due to overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change Protecting the ocean has a triple whammy effect, safeguarding climate, food and biodiversity ...

Ocean acidification is often described as the evil twin of climate change. Prof Richard Twitchett explains what ocean acidification is and what it could mean for the planet. Earth's oceans are ...

Deep in the ocean there are over 250,000 different species of animal! However, many of these creatures are in trouble because of the pollution and waste that humans have produced. Don’t worry ...

Our ocean is in serious trouble. Heating, pollution, acidification, and oxygen loss pose serious threats to the health of the ocean and to all living beings who call this vast planetary resource ...

We all rely on the ocean, whether we know it or not. Earth's vast expanses of water are key to the success of all life on Earth. We eat fish from the ocean, we breathe the oxygen it gives off, we feel ...

Most of us use it every day. It’s a really useful material that has transformed all our lives, but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of ...