Oceans
- Biodiversity, Biology, Coastlines, Conservation, Coral, Environment, India, Marine life, Mumbai, Oceans, Photography, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
‘Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world’: Mumbai’s marine life revealed
A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India’s most popu…
- Business, Environment, Health, Marine life, Oceans, Plastics, Pollution, Shipping industry, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Wildlife, World news
‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters
Sri Lankan beaches buried in pellets only ‘tip of the iceberg’ of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles…
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‘A national tragedy’: Māori drowning rate causes alarm in New Zealand
Māori have a strong ancestral relationship to the ocean involving hunting and fishing for seafood, but that ca…
- Animals, Business, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Fishing industry, Marine life, Oceans, Plastics, Pollution, Shipping industry, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Wildlife, World news
‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise
The country’s golden beaches have turned black as debris released from a sunken ship continues to wreak enviro…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Cetaceans, Conservation, Environment, Japan, Marine life, Oceans, Whales, Whaling, Wildlife, World news
Japan’s whaling town struggles to keep 400 years of tradition alive
The resumption of killing whales for profit for the first time in over 30 years is offering little cause for c…
- Business, Cetaceans, Coastlines, Dolphins, Environment, Fish, Marine life, Oceans, Plastics, Pollution, Shipping industry, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Travel and transport, Water transport, Wildlife, World news
Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet th…
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Message in a bottle from Japan washes up on Hawaii beach after 37 years
Discovery made by a local girl comes decades after the bottle was put into the sea by schoolchildren as part o…
- Asia Pacific, China, Environment, Fiji, Fishing, Food, Marine life, Oceans, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
Why the world’s most fertile fishing ground is facing a ‘unique and dire’ threat
China’s Pacific fishing fleet has grown by 500% since 2012 and is taking huge quantities of tunaRead more of o…
- Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Environment, Global development, Oceans, Oil, Oil spills, Pollution, Shipping industry, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Wildlife, World news
Sri Lanka’s worst ever maritime disaster reveals the true cost of our identity crisis | Sandali Handagama
We must find a way to embrace shipping, the ocean and our place in the world without shackling ourselves to un…
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Cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals sinks off Sri Lanka
Government suspends fishing along 50-mile coastline after explosion and fireA cargo ship carrying tonnes of ch…
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Rapid heating of Indian Ocean worsening cyclones, say scientists
Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate crisis increasing number of cyclones and intensity of storms, say …
- Asia Pacific, Energy, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Fukushima, Health, Japan, Marine life, Nuclear power, Oceans, Water, World news
Everything you need to know about the plan to release treated Fukushima water
Japan has announced it will dump 1m tonnes of contaminated water into the ocean, sparking controversyFukushima…
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Micronesian scientist becomes first Pacific Islander to reach ocean’s deepest point
Nicole Yamase visited the Challenger Deep trench, which lies nearly 11km below the surfaceIt is a place that h…
- Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Global development, India, Marine life, Oceans, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
Net gains: how India trawlers’ plastic catch is helping to rebuild roads
The waste caught by fishing boats used to be thrown back into the sea but in Kerala it is now turned into blac…
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Reef revival: Fiji’s corals bouncing back after ruinous cyclone
Cyclone Winston devastated vital coral colonies off Fiji, but four years on, the reefs are alive again, teemin…