Observatory: Even Tiny Plastic Pieces Can Carry Pollution Throughout the Oceans
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To marine biologists, âplasticsâ is a dirty word. Fish and birds can eat or become tangled in fishing gear or other plastic flotsam.
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MONTEREY, Calif. -- On a sunny mid-October afternoon, Stanford University graduate student Chris Perle was out at sea, searching for a four-inch metallic gray object, resembling a small microphone with an antenna, adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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It took some mighty fine nets, but scientists who spent two years trawling the world's oceans for bacteria and viruses have completed the most thorough census ever of marine microbial life, revealing an astonishingly diverse and bizarre microscopic menagerie.
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By Douglas Fischer  San Francisco Bay has been protected from any number of threats, from microscopic pollutants to giant runway expansions. But one item flows virtually unchecked into the Bay every day, and that's trash.
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Scientists looking into air quality and climate change have found pollutants from as far as Asia over New England and the Atlantic.
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Scientists will soon start attaching  microchips to fish and other marine animals to track their  movements around the world's oceans and learn how they are  being affected by phenomena such as climate change and  overfishing, experts said on Monday.
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photos Exhibit features bodies preserved with plastics to better represent our inner workings. But some say it shows too much.
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Scientists have recently turned to trash in an effort to unearth organic alternatives to petrochemical plastics.
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Russia and St. Petersburg in particular are not to blame for the lion's share of pollution in the Baltic Sea, an expedition into the Gulf of Finland by a ship carrying representatives of the local office of the ...
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By Angela Haupt  In  just three hours one day last September, volunteers scouring international coastlines and waterways collected more than 7 million pounds of trash -- about the same as the weight of 30 blue whales.
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Untreated sewage pouring into the world's seas and oceans is polluting their water and coastlines and endangering the health and welfare of the people and animals that inhabit them, according to a bleak new U.N. report released Wednesday on the threats to the world's marine environments.
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Significantly more marine debris washes ashore in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during El Nino periods than during La Nina conditions, according to a new study.
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By Myers, Mark  There is broad consensus by the marine science community that our world's coastal and ocean ecosystems are stressed and significantly impaired. Each year, about 1.5 million people move to coastal counties.
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By Nonny de la Pena  Carbon dioxide. Orange peels. Chicken feathers. Olive oil. Potato peels. E. coli bacteria. It is as if chemists have gone Dumpster diving in their hunt to make biodegradable, sustainable and renewable plastics.
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Ocean researchers are conducting studies on New Jersey's bays, which have been beset by algae whose growth is fostered by fertilizers and other pollution. "The stuff is growing like wildfire," said Michael Kennish, a Rutgers University professor studying the effects of the algae and pollution that spawns it.
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A quick global warming fix using pipes in the oceans is proposed by scientists James Lovelock and Chris Rapley.
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More than 40% of world's oceans heavily affected by fishing, climate change and pollution, study finds