Marine microbes are eating some of the plastic that ends up in the ocean

Japan's research, Australia claims is "a heap of body parts taken from a large number of dead whales"

Ocean acidification hinders abalones ability to self-right after they have been dislodged

The ocean is full of litter, and it is difficult to remove it all.  So why not employ the good-will of fishers to remove some of it?

Farmed fish and shellfish is becoming increasingly common in our supermarkets, but did you know that global aquaculture production has now overtaken beef production?

Most life on Earth needs oxygen to survive - even those living in our oceans.  So when oxygen levels in our coastal waters are severely reduced, (hypoxia), and worse still reduced to almost zero levels (anoxia), the impacts can be deadly

Simply calling an area of ocean a 'marine protected area' does not make it so

Ideally discards of marine life accidentally caught whilst fishing should be minimized by not catching non-targets in the first place. 

We are constantly on the search for ideas on how to improve our current technologies, like those used in agriculture or in medicine.  Searches can lead us to looking into the natural environment, revealing an array of compounds that can prove extremely useful.