カテゴリー: Oceans
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake near New Caledonia prompted New Zealand authorities to warn people to get off beaches A tsunami warning for New Zealand and Australia’s Lord Howe Island, sparked by a 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake near New Caledonia, ha…
Tourist drawcards Kuta and Legian beaches are being overwhelmed by up to 60 tonnes of plastic rubbish every dayBali’s beaches have been covered in tonnes of ugly rubbish as a result of the monsoon and chronic failings in Indonesia’s waste management sy…
Navy joins forces with rescuers and volunteers in effort to push pilot whales back into oceanRescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the country’s biggest mass beaching.The short-finne…
Environmental organisation says ‘dangerous’ levels of carbon-14 exist in water that could soon be released into Pacific oceanContaminated water that will reportedly be released into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contain…
Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writesMy country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in September 1991. But unless my fellow member states take act…
Thousands of ritual statues are dunked into the sea off Mumbai each year – but coronavirus and pollution concerns are forcing change In the quiet housing estate of Angrewadi in the heart of Girgaon in south Mumbai, people are celebrating the 100th cons…
MV Wakashio has split in two and leaked 1,000 tonnes of oil into the water since it ran agroundSalvage crews were preparing to sink a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground off Mauritius, despite opposition from environmental campaigners.The MV Wakashio …
From protecting fishing communities to regrowing coral reefs, Guardian readers and environmentalists share how they’re working to defend the oceanWorld Oceans Day, which took place on Monday, is marked by hundreds of beach cleans and events global…
Rare discovery made of freshwater aquifer that could contain as much as 2,000 cubic kilometres of waterAn aquifer has been discovered under the Pacific ocean off New Zealand’s coast, with scientists saying some of the South Island could draw on it for …
Area of water in the Pacific Ocean off NZ is 6C hotter than normal, possibly due to a lack of wind in the regionA spike in water temperature of up to 6C above average across a massive patch of ocean east of New Zealand is likely to have been caused by …
Papua New Guinea out of pocket $157m from failed attempt at mining material from deep-sea vents as opponents point to environmental riskThe “total failure” of PNG’s controversial deep sea mining project Solwara 1 has spurred calls for a Pacific-wide mo…
Rubbish has been washing up on its isolated beaches in the Pitcairn chain at a rate of several thousand bits of plastic a day Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day’s sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise….