WWF welcomes the commitment by the Mediterranean states to eliminate pollution at sea from land-based sources, and to reduce the emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POP) by 50 percent by 2005.
Pollution along the world’s coastal lines has become a major environmental crisis that is posing a silent but serious threat to marine biodiversity, coastal economies, and global efforts to achieve ...
Light pollution is often discussed as a problem for people trying to see the Milky Way. But artificial light also reaches ...
Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic explosion of the oil rig platform in 1988 claimed the lives of 167 people. Back ...
Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic explosion of the oil rig platform in 1988 claimed the lives of 167 people. Back ...
Researchers examine the specific impacts of microplastics on the geophysics of sea foam formation in the critical zone where water meets air in the top layer of the ocean. They devised two simulations ...
Decades-old rainfall records were broken in Queensland cities and towns, even though the cyclone was downgraded before hitting the mainland earlier this month. University of Melbourne atmospheric ...
The protection of the environment is a regular topic in the media. Recent events remind us that the costs of pollution on the open seas have escalated to a scale that must draw serious attention. The ...
Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and they're calling it "plasticrust." Scientists working in Madeira, a volcanic Portuguese island off northwest ...
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