Plastic objects positioned in the ocean is the subject of photographer Kim Preston‘s new series, titled Plastic Pacific. The series features everyday plastic objects floating in the sea looking like jellyfish, polyps, fish and other sealife. PetaPixel writes on Preston’s method: The simple concept was executive with a minimal budget and a very [...]

An advisory panel assembled by the National Research Council, an independent provider of scientific expertise that’s chartered by Congress, has stated that U.S. intelligence agencies should take climate change and its resulting impacts more seriously. The 14-member panel, which acknowledges that intelligence agencies are already studying how global temperatures will affect national [...]

  eVolo Architecture Magazine’s 2012 Skyscraper competition entrants from South Korea developed the conceptual Plastic Fish Tower—an underwater ocean structure designed to ‘attract’ plastic in an effort to reduce the concentration of pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A “floating fence” around the tower would provide a protective dome [...]

A robot was sent deep into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—deeper than any human diver has gone—only to find that the reef is very healthy and not suffering the consequences of storms, warming seas and pollution that  the shallower coral is. This is positive news since scientists hope the deeper coral [...]

In September Google launched an Underwater platform of their Maps conglomerate in an expansion of available “street maps”, allowing for the world to cruise panoramic views of ocean life, divers and (dying) reefs. Right now Google Underwater is pretty limited, but collections for Heron Island, Lady Elliot Island and Wilson [...]

A coalition of environmental groups are arguing that a vast secion of the waters off Antarctica must be protected from fishing and other industries. The Antarctic Ocean Alliance (AOA) says more than 40% of the region must be given protection before one of the world’s last true frontiers is damaged [...]

New findings from the Tara Oceans research expedition reveals a startling discovery – the presence of plastic fragments in all of the world’s oceans. Based in the French research vessel Tara, a team of 15 scientists are on a comprehensive, 2.5 year voyage spanning 70,000 miles in search of the [...]

Want to live a more sustainable lifestyle and help the ocean at the same time? Well, there’s an app for that. Washington-based Ocean Conservancy has released Rippl, a free iOS app to help users improve their sustainable lifestyle. The non-profit advocacy group says the tool will help people make simple [...]

An ironic twist has cropped up over the issue of environmentally-fragile waters in the Gulf of Mexico. There are reports that scientists, fishermen and conservationists are urging that hundreds of dormant oil rigs be left standing, arguing that a federal plan to remove them will endanger coral reefs and fish. [...]

A brand new expedition will set sail to the North Atlantic’s saltiest spot to test how ocean salinity affects climate change. The voyage is a NASA-sponsored quest, and will provide a 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean’s upper layers and how these variations are related to [...]