They also thrive in warmer waters and seas polluted by fertilisers from farming ... When the oxygen levels go down, dead zones will expand. These are areas of the ocean where the water quality is too ...

"Tanjung Uma is the most polluted village in Indonesia and has the highest risk potential in terms of ... The stench, villagers say, has become part of life. But the diseases are harder to ignore.

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

The ocean is a valuable resource but it is also easily polluted and damaged. This means that it requires careful management and protection. Management of the ocean happens at both a national scale ...

DW: Coral reefs are hotspots of ocean biodiversity. They're very beautiful and people enjoy them ... We try to reduce the competition of corals with other organisms, which is especially important when ...

When the November storms unleashed their fury on the Indonesian island of Batam, Dewi Puspalani and her 70-year-old mother-in-law, Mayuteh, scrambled to salvage what they could. The family’s ...

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ... The water was dotted with life you would ordinarily never notice. Fish eggs drifted like tiny lanterns, their yolk sacs glowing in ...

Why is plastic pollution so dangerous for our seas? And what’s the most unexpected find in Venice’s canals? We asked Italian researcher Fantina Madricardo, who led a project using high-tech solutions ...

However, she hasn’t had an easy life. Howard Garrett with ... She has survived polluted water, famine, and even capture. In August 1970, Ocean Sun’s pod was herded into Penn Cove off Whidbey ...