Thursday, April 3, 2025

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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GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

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?

Women and workers voting in Wisconsin Supreme Court race defeat the richest man in...

This election may signal the beginnings of a backlash against the Trump regime.

67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns

Sanders warns that Elon Musk’s plan to slash Social Security staffing could double disability claim wait times and deaths, as Trump nominee faces Senate vote.

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?