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Oceans

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

arctic sea ice

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

"How many more studies like this do we need for corporations to take strong action to curb the production of throwaway plastic which is predicted to quadruple by 2050?"

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

Jon Queally, staff writer

Trump, warn conservationists, is essentially giving the fossil fuel industry...

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

Common Dreams staff

"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.

"The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we...

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plastic

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

Local Fury and Health Concerns as Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tons of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean

Young lionesses

To Prevent 'Major Extinction Crisis,' Scientist Call for Designating Half of Planet as Protected Areas by 2050

Waves crash underneath the Oceana Pier

As Florence Threatens 'Catastrophic' Destruction, A Reminder That North Carolina Passed Law Mandating Climate Warnings Be Ignored

As World Busts Heat Records, Study Warns Global Warming Could Be Twice as Bad Climate Models Project

deepwater horizon

New Study Warns of Deepwater Horizon Disaster Long-Lasting Impact on Marine Life's "Building Blocks"

Greenpeace boat

'Trump-Caliber' Deal: Reports Detail Coastal Threat and Budget Nightmare of Trudeau's Trans Mountain Purchase

NOAA ship Miller Freeman

'Unconscionable' and 'Shocking': Trump's Head of NOAA Proposes Axing 'Climate' and Conservation From Agency's Mission

Green sea turtle

Affirming Belief That Waters Are for Drilling and Pillaging, Trump Erases Ocean Protection Policy

Study Shows 300,000 US Homes at Risk, $1 Trillion Price Tag as Rising Seas Trigger Chronic Flooding

Embracing Extreme 'Go-It-Alone' Agenda, Anti-Science Trump to Skip Climate Portion of G7 Summit

Newswire

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

Earthjustice

Court Allows Conservation and Alaska Native Groups to Challenge Trump’s Reversal of Arctic and Atlantic Drilling Ban

Views

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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