More than five trillion pieces of plastic debris are estimated to be in our oceans, though many are impossible to see with the naked eye. Plastic, metal, rubber and paper are some of the mat... Read more
OIST team proposes a novel ocean-current turbine design. Fossil fuels propelled the Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological advances. However, our future cannot be based on them,... Read more
A world-first global analysis of marine responses to climbing human CO2 emissions has painted a grim picture of future fisheries and ocean ecosystems. Published today in the journal Proceedi... Read more
More and more of the world’s waters are seriously lacking oxygen. Could we use pumps to bring oxygen and thus higher life back into these waters? A Danish/Swedish research team says ye... Read more
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Image via Wikipedia Researchers find trouble among phytoplankton, the base of the food chain, which has implications for the marine food web and the world’s carbon cycle The microscopi... Read more