Microplastics from homes and factories are ending up inside mussels off Chennai’s coast

A new study reiterates the sheer scale of plastic pollution in the oceans.

Neha Jain

· Jun 27, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Plastic pollution is hurting life-giving ocean bacteria that produce 10% of the world’s oxygen

New research shows that chemicals leached from ocean plastic impair the growth of the most abundant photosynthesising organism on Earth – Prochlorococcus.

Philippa Kearney, The Conversation

· May 27, 2019 · 11:30 pm

US explorer descends 11 km into the Pacific in deepest-ever dive, finds plastic waste

Retired naval officer and investor Victor Vescovo said he conducted an expedition inside a submersible to reach the deepest place on earth, the Mariana Trench.

Scroll Staff

· May 14, 2019 · 08:45 am

Italy: Pregnant sperm whale found dead with 22 kg of plastic in stomach

Researchers said the animal was malnourished and likely unable to feed her foetus.

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· Apr 01, 2019 · 11:07 pm

Indonesia: Over 1,000 plastic items including flip-flops found in dead sperm whale’s stomach

Indonesia is the world’s second largest plastic polluter.

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· Nov 21, 2018 · 02:35 pm

Thailand: Whale dies after consuming over 80 plastic bags

The pilot whale was discovered barely alive in a canal in the southern province of Songkhla on Monday.

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· Jun 03, 2018 · 07:33 pm

Video: Why coral reefs are so important (and why they mustn't be allowed to die)

Most of them face serious threats from both climate change and human activity.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 22, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Silence of the seas: How our oceans are going quiet

A recent study shows that ocean sounds are diminishing due to nutrient pollution and ocean acidification.

Ivan Nagelkerken, Sean Connell and Tullio Rossi, The Conversation

· Sep 20, 2016 · 05:30 am

With water levels receding, aquatic life in the Ganga is struggling to survive

India’s greatest river is increasingly becoming unliveable for the wide variety of species that it once supported easily.

Juhi Chaudhary

· Jul 30, 2016 · 10:30 pm

Meet Kheldho the mudskipper, an artistic metaphor for the damage we're doing to our oceans

What we throw in the ocean ultimately comes back to us as seafood on our plates – even though the plastic may not be very obvious.

Aaron Savio Lobo

· Apr 28, 2016 · 02:30 pm