Tag: oceans
UK pledges £61.4 million to fight ocean plastics
"This week we will look closely at how we can tackle the many threats to the health of the world's oceans, including the scourge of marine plastic pollution."
Ocean plastic projected to triple within seven years
"The sea bed is teeming with life. We really need a mission to planet ocean – it's the last frontier."
2017 was the hottest year on record for oceans
"Plastic is one of the biggest threats in the ocean at the moment, I would say, apart from climate change,"
50 years later: Trump administration’s off-shore drilling plan completely unnecessary
This time around, partisan politics have become part of the process.
Elizabeth Warren condemns Trump’s plan to expand offshore drilling
"This handout to Big Oil executives puts short-term corporate profits ahead of the long-term health and livelihood of America’s coastal families and ignores the growing threat posed by climate change."
Lawsuit launched against Trump EPA for approving fracking waste dumping into...
At least 10 fracking chemicals routinely used in offshore fracking could kill or harm a broad variety of marine species, including marine mammals and fish.
Acidifying oceans a bad trip for marine ecosystems
A new study is one of the few to investigate what ocean acidification might do to fish communities.
Junk raft: A journey through a polluted ocean
What better way to understand the dangers of plastic pollution than by traveling on a ship made out of garbage?
9 shocking facts about plastics in our oceans
The amount of plastic in the world’s oceans could increase by a factor of 10 in the next decade.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14: A new era for...
The health of the oceans is vital for the survival of all humanity.
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You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.
Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
The agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.
How worker-owned news outlets are changing the media industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
Make America Worse – the corrosive blueprint driving Muskrat-Trump’s high-risk demolition derby
Where’s the great Trump hustle, what he does best, that promises the moon while taking away the earth? The battle is now how much scorched earth Trump inflicts without any positive deliverables to offset the pain.