Expert Opinions
Pandemic action and climate action must go hand in hand
We're at a critical juncture for overcoming not one but two of the biggest crises facing humanity.
A marine protected area is long overdue to save the Antarctic’s fragile ecosystem
Just 5% of the Southern Ocean is protected, leaving biodiversity hotspots exposed to threats from human activity.
Global warming is detectable even at the ocean floor
Everywhere they looked the scientists observed a warming trend of 0.02 to 0.04 Celsius between 2009 and 2019.
Wasting waste: we must do better on recycling plastic
Current recycling commitments will only reduce annual plastic flows to the ocean by 7%. That's depressingly low.
Pollutants banned decades ago are still in the UK’s rivers
Banned and disused chemicals from an industrial past continue to poison wildlife in rivers throughout the United Kingdom.
Some 14 million tons of microplastics cover the seafloor
Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution, least of all the oceans.