If your a Pacific Islander, climate change is likely to be a huge problem.  It all comes down to reliance on local resources, and in many cases these resources come from local marine waters.

Cotroversy surrounds a science paper that says many Northeast Atlantic fisheries are sustainable.

Carbon dioxide and nutrient input interact with each other to impact algal turf growth

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