Recent News Headlines : Marine Protected Area
THE ARCTIC, ANTARCTIC POLES JUST SET A NEW RECORD FOR LOW LEVELS OF SEA ICE
The amount of sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic is at a record low and climate change is partly to blame, scientists announced Wednesday... READ MORE›
ANTARCTIC PENGUIN NUMBERS DOUBLE PREVIOUS ESTIMATES
An estimated 193,500 tonnes of krill and 18,800 tonnes of fish are eaten during the breeding season by Adelie penguins breeding in East Antarctica, Emmerson said... READ MORE›
BOATY MCBOATFACE TO GO ON ITS FIRST ANTARCTIC MISSION
Its mission will be to investigate water flow and turbulence in the dark depths of the Orkney Passage, a 3.5km deep region of the Southern Ocean... READ MORE›
OCEANS HAVE LOST 2% OF OXYGEN SINCE 1960, STUDY SAYS
Most oxygen was lost in the Equatorial and North Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the South Atlantic Ocean... READ MORE›
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE SHRINKS TO SMALLEST EVER EXTENT
People sceptical of mainstream findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming... READ MORE›
STUDY OF PAST WARMING SIGNALS MAJOR SEA LEVEL RISE AHEAD
The findings in the journal Science show that ocean surface temperatures during the Earth's last warm period, some 125,000 years ago, were remarkably similar to those today... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Marine Protected Area
WORLD'S LARGEST MARINE PARK CREATED IN ROSS SEA IN ANTARCTICA IN LANDMARK DEAL
Today's agreement is a turning point for the protection of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, said Chris Johnson, WWF-Australia's ocean science manager... READ MORE›
WARMING OF OCEANS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNSTOPPABLE, SAY US SCIENTISTS
Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS SHATTERED AS CLIMATE CHANGE 'PLAYS OUT BEFORE US'
Temperatures, sea levels and carbon dioxide all hit milestones amid extreme weather in 2015, major international 'state of the climate' report finds... READ MORE›
TRUMP REJECTS CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT MAR-A-LAGO COULD BE LOST TO THE SEA
Donald Trump shelled out 409,759 for property taxes in 2016 on Mar-a-Lago, his oceanfront club above billionaire's row in Palm Beach, Fla... READ MORE›
'PRISTINE' ANTARCTIC ROSS SEA DECLARED OFFICIAL UN MARINE PROTECTED AREA
Johnson said the WWF would be working hard to make the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area permanent... READ MORE›
150,000 PENGUINS PERISH AFTER GIANT ICEBERG TRAPS COLONY
The outlook for the Cape Denison Adelie penguins remains dire... READ MORE›
FINALLY, THE WORLD MAY PROTECT ONE OF THE MOST PRISTINE PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
Life at the bottom of the world The Southern Ocean, which surrounds the continent of Antarctica, may sound like a lifeless, frozen wasteland... READ MORE›
ANTARCTIC MARINE RESERVES DEAL WITHIN REACH AS RUSSIA THAWS ENVIRONMENTAL STANCE
After five years of failed negotiations, conservations are hopeful Russia is prepared to make a deal to protect the Ross Sea and East Antarctica... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE WASHES UP IN GERMANY AFTER 108 YEARS AT SEA
It is thought the postcard Mrs Winkler discovered may be the oldest message-in-a-bottle ever found... READ MORE›
'LEWIS IS NOT GONE:' MARINER'S BOTTLED MESSAGE FOUND IN IRELAND, YEARS AFTER DEATH
Lewis Knight's home, where the family still lives, is filled with postcards and responses to his bottled messages... READ MORE›
MASSIVE MARINE PARK DECLARED IN ANTARCTIC OCEAN
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources said the Ross Sea marine park would be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years... READ MORE›
WORLDA??S OLDEST MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE EVER FOUND FINALLY WASHES UP AFTER 108 YEARS
She told local paper the Amrum News the clear glass bottle had a note inside bearing only the words Break the bottle... READ MORE›
BABY LOBSTERS IN HOT WATER AS OCEAN TEMPERATURES RISE
A new study by scientists in Maine found that if global warming trends continue, lobsters will struggle to survive by the year 2100... READ MORE›
WORLD'S BIGGEST MARINE RESERVE CREATED IN ANTARCTICA AS NATIONS STRIKE DEAL
Today's agreement is a turning point for the protection of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean... READ MORE›
HAWAII AND OTHER BIG MARINE PROTECTED AREAS 'COULD WORK AGAINST CONSERVATION'
British and US marine scientists say that the race to designate ever-bigger marine national parks in remote parts of the world could work against conservation... READ MORE›
TOKYO, OSAKA, OTHER MEGA-CITIES WILL BE SWAMPED BY SURGING SEA LEVELS, EVEN AT 2 DEGREE RISE
Today, some 145 million people live in Chinese cities and coastal areas that would eventually become ocean were temperatures to climb that high... READ MORE›
ANCIENT WATER CHANNELS AND SEA ICE
The Great Salt Lake is the largest water body in the US after the Great Lakes... READ MORE›
HOW RUNAWAY SEA LEVEL RISE COULD ONE DAY SWAMP THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CITIES
Sea level rise as a result of global warming comes from the thermal expansion of the oceans and the melting of glaciers... READ MORE›
DON'T SHRINK AUSTRALIA'S OCEAN SANCTUARIES, SCIENTISTS URGE MINISTERS
They haven't spoken to marine scientists, despite our best efforts... READ MORE›
GLOBAL SEA LEVELS RISING FASTER DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING
Man-made climate change responsible for fastest rise in sea levels in the past 2,800 years according to new studies... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA TO LAY OFF LEADING SCIENTIST ON SEA LEVELS
Dr. Church's work studying sea levels has provided important keys to understanding climate change... READ MORE›
EL NINO MAY 'BE THE WORST EVER'
Northerly winds would push the moist air south keeping temperatures high in South Australia and Victoria... READ MORE›
GREENLAND ICE MELT OFF TO RECORD EARLY START
Is important because it's the second-biggest potential ice-melt contributor to sea-level rise, only behind Antarctica's ice sheet... READ MORE›
COUNTRIES OK WORLDA??S LARGEST MARINE RESERVE IN ANTARCTICA
The U.S. and New Zealand have been pushing for a marine reserve for years... READ MORE›
CHECKING TED CRUZ'S CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIAL HOWLERS
In 2000, the influential pollster Frank Luntz wrote a memo to Republicans saying the term global warming should be replaced by the less frightening term climate change ... READ MORE›
11 SAYINGS THAT CELEBRATE THE 'HEART OF THE PLANET'
The U.N. has dubbed this year's World Oceans Day theme healthy oceans, healthy planet... READ MORE›
PEOPLE OF KIRIBATI 'MAY HAVE TO RELOCATE'
President Anote Tong told the BBC's environment correspondent Matt McGrath that any possible deal was already too late for his country... READ MORE›
CHINA AND RUSSIA THWART PLAN FOR ANTARCTIC OCEAN SANCTUARY
The Southern Ocean represents about 10 percent of the Earth's surface... READ MORE›
U.N. BODY ISSUES EXPLORATION CONTRACTS AS ERA OF DEEP SEABED MINING NEARS
These biologically complex areas are found in the Western Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans... READ MORE›