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New Study Looks at How Much Plastic Ends Up on Ocean Floor
Photo: Brian Yurasits A new study has come up with the first estimate of how much plastic waste actually ends up on the ocean floor. The study, conducted by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO...
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Sea Spray Can Send ‘Forever Chemicals’ Back Into Air, Study Finds
Photo: Polina Kuzovkova // Unsplash Scientists have discovered that PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” can be reintroduced into the air by crashing ocean waves. A new study done by the Department...
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Three Indigenous Tribes Given $755K for Coastal Protection
Photo: Iris Papillon//Unsplash Three Indigenous American tribes will receive a total of $755,000 under the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to establish projects aimed at protecting their...
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Surfrider Wants to Make Tijuana Slough Surfable Again
Ask any San Diego surfer and they’ll heed you some common sense advice: “Don’t even think about surfing Tijuana Slough.” The last couple miles of beach before California runs into the Mexican border...
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NOAA: 85% Chance El Niño Ends By June, La Niña Follows
Photo: NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been sounding the alarm on El Niño’s end with the possibility of a La Niña directly on its heels for months now. The...
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Over 50 New Marine Species Discovered Off the Coast of Rapa Nui
A deep-sea dragon fish documented during a deep-sea dive off Chilé. Photo: ROV SuBastian // Schmidt Ocean Institute Despite the fact that humans like to believe that we know all there is to know about...
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A Global Coral Bleaching Event Has Officially Been Confirmed
A boulder star coral in St. Croix, USVI, as it shifted from healthy (May 2023), to bleached (October 2023). Photos: NOAA It’s official: we’re in the midst of yet another global coral bleaching event....
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Searching For the Vaquita Porpoise: the World’s Most Endangered Cetacean
It’s estimated that there are only 10 vaquita porpoises left in the world. Photos: IWC Each May since 2015, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has undertaken a difficult mission. For three weeks,...
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New Study Finds Rogue Waves Far More Common Than Previously Thought
A new study has found that rogue waves, in the Southern Ocean at least, are far more common than initially believed. Image: Hot Spot Art Rogue waves have long been the subject of sailing lore. Tales of...
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The Ocean Cleanup Has Collected More than 10-Million Kilograms of Trash
Photo: The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup has come a long way since Boyan Slat conceived it just over a decade ago. A teenager at the time, Slat’s vision for ridding the ocean of the plastics that...
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$20,000 Reward Offered After a Dolphin Was Shot to Death In Louisiana
Stranded juvenile bottlenose dolphin. Photo: Audubon Aquarium Rescue After a young dolphin was found riddled with bullets on a beach in Louisiana, authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for...
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Florida Boaters Caught on Video Dumping Trash Directly Into the Ocean
A group of Florida boaters were caught on camera dumping bins of trash directly into the water in Florida. According to reports, it appears that the incident occurred during the Boca Bash on Sunday,...
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Tim McKenna Releases Photographs of Teahupo’o Reef After Olympic Judging...
Photo: Tim McKenna Photographer Tim McKenna was one of the first sources to give the world a look at Teahupo’o’s new judging tower last month — the “scaled-down” version of the original plan to erect...
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Study Declares California’s 2023 Winter a ‘Freak Event’
Damn. Photo: Christian Pondella//Mammoth Mountain Many factors contributed to the West Coast of the U.S. witnessing a wild and intense winter that ended in April of 2023. California’s snowpack was...
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Two Teens Turn Themselves in After Boca Bash Littering Footage Goes Viral
Video caught the culprits dumping trash cans of garbage into the sea. Photo: Screenshot//Wavy Boats Weeks after a video of a group of boaters at the Boca Bash dumping trash into the ocean off Boca...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Fish Die in Vietnam After Intense Heatwave
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish are causing quite the stink in Vietnam. Photo: Screenshot//AFP Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a 300-acre reservoir in Vietnam. The mass die off was caused...
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Japanese Commercial Whalers Can Now Hunt Fin Whales
The fin whale is listed as “vulnerable to extinction,” but Japan is allowing whalers to hunt them. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Fin whales aren’t doing so well, population-wise. They’re on the list of...
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14,000-Gallon Sewage Spill Shuts Down Venice Beaches
L.A. County Beaches are closed after a sewage spill spiked bacterial levels. Photo: Unsplash The ocean is closed off Dockweiler Beach and in Venice after a sewage spill leaked thousands of gallons of...
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A ‘La Niña Watch’ Has Been Issued by the Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
A La Niña year is part of the earth’s natural cycle, but if it’s strong enough the consequences can be disastrous. Photo: Unsplash/NASA Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology issued an official “La Niña...
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Santa Cruz Surfers Oppose Petition For Marine Protected Area at Pleasure Point
Fishing is at the heart of the opposition. Photo: The Inertia archives “Turning our kelp beds into a (Marine Protected Area) would be tragic, and the loss of accessibility to our community and kids...
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