At HSBC Holdings AGM in London on Friday, the company was asked about HSBC’s willingness to match Deutsche Bank’s commitment not to fund the Abbot Point port expansion adjacent to the Great Barrier […]
New research has provided the first conclusive evidence that microplastics ingested by marine wildlife can transfer toxic pollutants to their tissues. The researchers studied lugworms fed on PVC particles contaminated with either widespread […]
Marine litter is a major issue in deep sea ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea, new research confirms. A recent study shows that the total weight of litter found in these sensitive areas often […]
The world’s ocean ecosystems will suffer warming, increased acidity, low oxygen and reduced primary food supply as a result of rising CO2 and this is likely to have dramatic environmental and social impacts, […]
An early warning system to predict the overfishing of individual species, far in advance of severe population decline, has been developed by researchers. The ‘eventual threat index’ was applied by the researchers to […]
International agreements to reduce plastic use are needed to address plastic litter in the marine environment, as well as increased public awareness of the problem, according to scientists at a workshop on the […]
By 1995, nine of the world’s 17 major fishing grounds were in precipitous decline and four had been commercially ‘fished out’. The EU began to decommission 40% of its fishing fleet, the Malaysian […]