News from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Small velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you’re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and...
View ArticleSperm Whales Prefer Squid to Plastic Bags
© Oceana/Juan Cuetos Plastic is one of the most common pollutants that end up in the ocean, but the properties that make it ideal for shopping make it deadly to marine life. Plastics are durable and...
View ArticleWhat Do Historic CO2 Levels Mean for the Oceans?
“Keeling Curve” shows CO2 levels increase from 1958-2013. (Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) For the first time in human history, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels passed 400 parts...
View ArticleArctic Ice Melt Could Unlock Trillions of Frozen Microplastics
Marine debris in Norway. (Photo: Bo Eide / Flickr Creative Commons) Out of the nearly 300 million tons of plastic created in 2012, nearly 10 percent of it ended up in oceans, according to Phys.org....
View ArticleOceanCare Blog 2014-07-15 04:00:45
Guest blog from Alexander Sánchez Equinac attempts to rescue cetaceans and sea turtles that strand, or that are sighted near shore and in distress. A rescue case for a cetacean is as follows: The...
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