PADI AWARE Foundation’s Dive Against Debris Highlights Socioeconomic Influences on Debris in Global Study
PADI AWARE Foundation™ has teamed up with CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and Ocean Conservancy, the US-based advocacy non-profit, to highlight the role that socioeconomics plays on global hotspots of common debris items on land and the seafloor. Read more…
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Spiny Tiger Shrimp – Jack’s October 2021 Underwater Photograph
The Tiger Shrimp (Phyllognatia ceratophthalmus) is also called Spiny Tiger Shrimp, Bongo Shrimp, Horned Bumblebee Shrimp and one of Lembeh’s Top Crustaceans. See more…
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Imperiled Reef: The Fascinating, Fragile Life of a Caribbean Wonder
This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, this reef is the second largest coral structure on the planet. Read more…
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Eco-friendly Sailing Adventures in the Florida Keys
The Florida Keys is one of America’s most popular vacation spots because of its miles and miles of splendid beaches, coral reefs, and shipwrecks that can only be completely explored by water. It is also a home to rich marine ecosystems, a variety of public nature parks and historical sites. Read more…
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The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Completes the Largest Coral Reef Survey and Mapping Expedition in History
Coral reefs around the world are rapidly declining due to various natural and anthropogenic factors, including climate change, overfishing, pollution, and coastal development. Scientists estimate that we have already lost more than half of the world’s coral reefs, and we could lose the rest by the end of the century. Read more…
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Sex & The Symbiont: Can Algae Hookups Help Corals Survive?
A little more sexy time for symbionts could help coral reefs survive the trials of climate change. And that, in turn, could help us all. Researchers at Rice University and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography already knew the importance of algae known as dinoflagellates to the health of coral as the oceans warm, and – Read more…
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Fisheries Interactions More Threatening to Maui Nui Dolphins than Previously Thought
Researchers at Pacific Whale Foundation (PWF), a nonprofit organization protecting the ocean through science and advocacy since 1980, dove deep below the surface in a new study that could revolutionize how researchers evaluate the impact of fisheries interactions on dolphin populations. Read more…
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Ocean Hope Chronicles: The Mid-Ocean Mysteries of Humpback Whales
Documentary filmmaker and author, Andrew Stevenson was telling me how he began his work with humpback whales. It started when he was on the beach in Bermuda where he lived with his two-year-old daughter, Elsa. A humpback whale breached and landed with a loud boom. Read more
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SAWFISH NEWS: Seeking Wall for Endangered Sawfish Mural
Hey Florida, I’m working with the Sawfish Conservation Society, the Center for Biological Diversity, and artist Roger Peet to get us a sawfish mural (or two or three) as part of the Endangered Species Mural Project! Read more…
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Sunlight Can Bake Plastic Waste Into a Soup of Tens of Thousands of Organic Molecules
Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it’ll eventually crumble into a powdery mess, its petrochemical fragments destined to be blown far and wide by the elements. Microplastic fragments – considered a major ecological hazard all on their own – might not even be the worst thing to come out of this disintegration. Read more…
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Where Are the Fish Going? Unsustainable Fishing Practices Leading to Fishery-Induced Evolution
“Our oceans are being plundered”(WWF, n.d, 1.). Many people rely on seafood to survive, whether it is their main source of protein or their livelihood. Overfishing and overexploitation of many fish species is leading to the full collapse, or soon to collapse entirely, in the commercial fisheries. Read more…
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The FREE Weekly Conservation Post and Jobs List
For 15 years the Global Marine Community Weekly Conservation Post has been emailing round-up of events, jobs, and announcements in ocean conservation. Learn more and subscribe free!
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Under the Waves with Karim Iliya, October 2021
A group of endemic milletseed butterflyfish accompany a Hawaiian green sea turtle covered in fibropapillomas tumors on the south side of Maui, Hawaii. Read more…
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More Than 2,185 Scientists & Academics Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Over two thousand academics across disciplines and from 81 countries have delivered a letter demanding a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to manage a global phase out of coal, oil and gas to governments gathering at tomorrow’s UN General Assembly. Read more…
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Allen Coral Atlas Completes First Global Coral Reef Maps
From offering food security and protecting coastlines to supporting 25 percent of the ocean’s marine biodiversity, coral reefs play a vital role for this planet. And for these marine ecosystems, information is opening new doors for targeted action. Read more…
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Self-Discovery in The Sand By Cath Wallis
My feet slip with every step. Moving with the soft sand beneath. Struggling to gain traction and push forward. And yet I must. Force each step; push with the poles to achieve forward motion. This is the desert, and as much as it forces me back, I must resist. Read more…
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‘Driving’ Innovation to Help Eliminate Plastic Waste
Each year in the United States, millions of tons of plastic waste are discarded and not recycled, leading to serious environmental problems. In an effort to help keep this waste from ending up in the environment, engineers at the University of Missouri are partnering with Dow and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) to- Read more…
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Zero-Waste Week: The Beauty Brands Reducing Their Plastic & 5 Ways To Be More Eco-Friendly
As part of Zero-Waste Week, Uswitch has analysed 50 of the UK’s most popular make-up brands to reveal which are committing to reducing their plastic packaging. Read more…
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This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS MediaZ