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An "historic step" to protect marine life from underwater noise pollution is how the campaign body International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has welcomed

Plymouth UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2024 - Tiny plankton - measuring less than 20um (or 0.02mm) in diameter - make up the majority of plankton in the ocean and play a critical role in the planets health, according to new research. How

Study involved deploying an underwater noise logger at two different depths in two distinct Maltese locations

Aircraft that routinely fly over bodies of water around the world to monitor pollution could in future not only detect oil and chemical spills on the high seas, in coastal waters and on beaches, b ...

The Denmark Depth Model (DDM) is a digital bathymetric model covering Denmark’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). It was developed based on hundred...

Endangered fish thrown away and dead whales on our shores: Fishings ocean impact Noteworthy reveals over 30 tonnes of threatened fish were discarded in one year, including the endangered basking shark and critically endangered skates. By Maria Delaney Tuesday 6 Apr 2021, 8:30 PM 2 hours ago 9,500 Views 12 Comments VIDEOS OF THE iconic basking ...

Credit: JAMSTEC [De S. Chiba] The Messina Strait, a submarine bridge separating the island of Sicily from the Italian Peninsula, is the area with the largest marine litter density worldwide -more than a million objects per square kilometre in some parts-, as reported in a new review paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Also, over the next thirty years, the volume of rubbish in the sea could surpass three billion metric tons (Mt), as cited in the study, whose correspo...