Oceans were hottest on record in 2019
- 14-Jan-2020
Oceans absorb more than 90 percent of excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions and quantifying how much they have warmed up in recent years
Great Barrier Reef annual mass coral spawning begins
- 17-Nov-2019
A mass coral spawning has begun on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with early indications the annual event could be among the biggest in recent years.
Jellyfish thrive despite man-made disruption of the oceans
- 24-Sep-2019
Jellyfish have been on Earth longer than we have -- they are believed to have roamed the oceans for nearly 600 million years.
Southeast Asian nations, among worst ocean polluters
- 21-Jun-2019
Environmentalists commend initiatives by some major retailers to cut back on plastic bags, but say most businesses will not take action unless there is a stricter push from policy initiatives
Oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought
- 12-Nov-2018
For each of the past 25 years, oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to a study led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and Princeton University. The strong ocean warming the researchers found […]
Southeast Asia’s plastic fixation plagues world’s oceans
- 05-Jun-2018
BANGKOK: On her lunch break, Bangkok office worker Chinapa Payakha emerges from a 7-Eleven store with two plastic bags. One holds a Big Gulp soft drink. The other carries her lunch, with a banana in its own plastic wrapper. “For office life, plastic bags are necessary,” said Chinapa, 34, whose shopping habits illustrate the challenges […]
Some fish tackle ocean global warming by pretending it’s night
- 02-Aug-2016
OSLO: Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defenses to night-time levels, the time of day when they find sea water least hospitable, a study said on Monday.
Some important facts related to environment- (UNEP)
- 05-Jun-2015
Here are some facts obtained from the official website of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).