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Bolstering Call for Urgent Global Action, New Study Shows Microplastic Pollution 'Absolutely Everywhere'

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'Devastating' Impacts Feared as Oil Spill Threatens UNESCO Heritage Site in Pacific

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"The evidence indicates very little prospect of imminent action that would involve getting the oil off the vessel and preventing the ongoing spill."

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Global Warming Decimating World Fisheries—And Studies Warn It's On Track to Get Worse Without Urgent Action

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Fishermen collect fish at Kovalam Beach

"Adapting to existing climate change effects and implementing the Paris...

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'We Have Entered the Age of Environmental Breakdown': Report Details World Nearing Runaway Collapse

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Texas post-Hurricane Harvey

A new report from U.K. researchers is being praised as "absolutely brilliant...

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City-Sized 1,000-Foot Deep Cavity Found in Glacier, Warns NASA, Signaling 'Rapid Decay' of Antarctic Ice

fjord is seen from the air in southwest Greenland

'We Are Watching the Ice Sheet Hit a Tipping Point': Greenland Melting Even Faster Than Feared

Studies Show Ice Melting and Ocean Warming Both Happening Much Faster Than Previously Thought

'Scary': Warming of Oceans Is Equivalent to 1.5 Atomic Bombs Every Second Over Past 150 Years

Taking Path of a 'Pirate Whaling Nation,' Japan Reportedly Set to Resume Commercial Whale-Hunting in Its Waters

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'Significant First Blow to Plastic Pollution Monster' as EU Reaches Landmark Deal on Single-Use Products

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'An Indication of What's Coming': Melting at North and South Poles Worse Than Previously Thought

'A Great Shame': Taken From Oceans Around the World, 100% of Sea Turtles in New Study Had Plastics in Their Bellies

Trump Greenlights Another 'Violent, Destructive' Assault on Marine Life With Seismic Testing Approval

"We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted. But we were wrong," Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the new study, told the Washington Post.

'We Have Less Time Than We Thought': New Study Shows Oceans Have Retained Far More Heat Than Previously Believed

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Despite Corporate Resistance, EU One Step Closer to Ban on the Single-Use Plastics Choking Planet and Harming Human Health

Found in 90 Percent of Table Salt Brands, Study Finds Average Adult Ingests 2,000 Pieces of Microplastic Per Year

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace Condemns Japan Government's "Sneaky" Withdrawal From International Whaling Commission...

Oceana

Feds to Authorize Companies to Harm Dolphins and Whales with Seismic Airgun Blasting Activities in Atlantic Ocean

Earthjustice

Federal Court Upholds Protections for Oceans and National Monuments

Center for Food Safety

Court Shuts Down Offshore Aquaculture in Gulf of Mexico

Center for Biological Diversity

Navy’s Pacific Training Could Kill Hundreds of Dolphins, Threaten Recovery of Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

2.5 Million Homes, Businesses Totaling $1 Trillion Threatened by High Tide Flooding

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Moé Yonamine

Stand with Okinawa

Verner Wilson III

I Went Dungeness Crabbing in Washington. Here's Why I'm Concerned About Increased Shipping From Trans Mountain Pipeline

Norah Vawter

A Letter to My Child on a Changing Planet

Arshad Khan

Of Animals and Bees and Flowers Wild as Earth Day Nears

Brent Patterson

Canadian Company Threatens NAFTA Investor-State Challenge Over Washington State Legislation Against Fish Farms

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Jeff Orlowski

What the Trump Administration Doesn't Understand About Ocean Conservation

Sue Sturgis

Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Flouts Law by Ignoring Governors' Wishes

Victoria Borneman

As Oceans Rise, When’s the Last Time I’ll Go Home for Christmas?

Elizabeth West

On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It's Not All About Us

Paul Watson

The Whale Wars Continue

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