ocean
Divers Set World Record Removing 1,200lbs of Ocean Trash
(Updated August 2, 2019). More than 600 divers have broken a world record by participating in an ocean floor clean up at Deerfield Beach. Six hundred and thirty-three divers came together last week to collect...
9 Easy Ways You Can Protect the Oceans
For centuries, humankind has marveled at the ocean. It covers more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and produces more than half of the world's oxygen. It's home to between 700,000 and one...
How the Cannabis Industry Is Cleaning Up Ocean Plastic
Smoke more weed to save the planet? If you're buying products from Sana Packaging, a company that uses plastic collected from the ocean to make cannabis items, it could be kind of possible. Plastic pollution...
Single-Use Items Make up 89% of Plastic Waste in the Ocean
A new press release by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) highlighted the threat of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. According to the organization, 89 percent of the plastic in the ocean is single-use...
World’s Largest Dead Zone Discovered in Arabian Sea
A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has revealed the presence of a massive ocean dead zone, an area of the ocean made uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen, located in the...
Mexico Bans Fishing From 57,000 Square Miles of Ocean
An impressive marine reserve has just been created by the Mexican government. The reserve surrounds a group of islands inhabited by hundreds of species of marine life and the government has imposed a complete...
11 Ways to Be Vegan and Still Eat Tuna
Marine life is awesome! Fishing on the other hand, can have very adverse affects on ecosystems, and the ocean. Alarmingly, the oceans are set to contain more plastic than fish before 2050 without drastic change. However,...