Ocean Pollution
Ocean Pollution'Trash music': Turkish band recycles rubbish into sounds
Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum and blow into things they find in ...
Bangladesh's hazardous shipyards launch race for cleaner, safer future
When Samrat Hossain first started cutting up old ships weighing thousands of tonnes in a southeast Bangladesh shipbreaking yard a decade ago, all he would wear was a cap or a helmet.
Changing ocean currents driving extreme winter weather: Researchers
The magnitude is on the order of 1 petawatts, or 10 to the 15 power watts. Right now, the energy consumption by the entire world is about 20 terawatts, or 10 to the 12 power watts. So, 1 petawatt is ...
Ocean life helps produce clouds, but existing clouds keep new ones at bay
By reflecting sunlight back into space and controlling rainfall, clouds play significant roles in the global climate and accurately predicting them is essential to understanding the effects of ...
Sri Lanka facing marine disaster from burning ship: official
Sri Lanka is facing its worst beach pollution crisis as tonnes of plastic waste from a burning container ship wash ashore, a senior environment official said Saturday
Plastics from burning ship cover Sri Lanka beach
Tonnes of charred plastic pellets from a burning container ship washed ashore near Sri Lanka's capital Friday as an international effort to salvage the vessel dragged into a ninth day
World Biodiversity Day
More wild animals killed during pandemic
Human interference in nature has decreased due to lockdowns and various other reasons in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. As a result, in several parts of the world, biodiversity has gained a new ...
Illegal driftnet use widespread in Indian Ocean: Greenpeace
Greenpeace has uncovered widespread use of illegal driftnets in the northwest Indian Ocean, which it says are decimating marine life in what is one of the world's most ecologically vulnerable fishing ...
Ship runs aground off Mauritius with 130 tonnes of oil aboard
It is the second shipwreck in less than a year off Mauritius, after a tanker struck a reef in July and leaked 1,000 tonnes of fuel in the country's worst environmental disaster in history
Oyster shells given new life as reefs off Texas coast
On the terrace of a seafood restaurant in Houston, Texas’s largest city, a few ladies are enjoying a local oyster dish: the breaded mollusks are slathered in mayonnaise and served in a sandwich
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