This year’s World Ocean’s Day takes place on Wednesday 8 June and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission will mark the event with a celebration. At the event,...
Unless ambitious action is taken to reduce carbon emissions the world’s oceans are facing dangerous and irreversible impact that could affect seafood supply, according to a...
Scientists looking at evidence showing the level of atmospheric CO2 millions of years ago say the data supports climate change predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Sir Mark Walport, the UK government’s chief scientist, has warned that since the industrial revolution the acidity of the world’s oceans has increased by 25% and...
Climate change remains the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef and is already having an impact on the unique ecosystem, according to the Australian...
As concern grows about the health of the world’s oceans, threatened by rising temperatures, acidification and overfishing, a new report has claimed there is at least...
The tourism industry will be severely hit by the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise, acidifying oceans, the loss of biodiversity and global...
US president Barack Obama has promised to increase efforts to tackle illegal fishing and extend the existing marine protected area between Hawaii and American Samoa. The...
US secretary of state John Kerry has said that governments and scientists need to come up with policies to stop acidification, overfishing and pollution, which threaten...
The marine species of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the livelihoods and lifestyles of millions of people that depend on them, are being threatened by...
US secretary of state John Kerry has called for international cooperation to protect oceans that are “under siege” from overfishing, pollution and acidification. On Monday, the...
Researchers have discovered that acidification caused by the presence of carbon dioxide (CO2) in oceans makes fish “bolder” and less fearful of predators, potentially disrupting the...
As human activities make the oceans more acidic many marine species are increasingly being put at risk, including populations of fish that people around the world...
If levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere fail to decrease, our oceans will become warmer and more acidic by 2100, affecting the lives of 870...
The health of our oceans is declining fast because of unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide, overfishing, pollution and global warming, a new report has revealed. Marine...