We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.
Continue reading Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
Published as part of its Technical Series (no 75) by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the report draws on modelling, laboratory and field studies by the £12m UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme www.oceanacidification.org.uk (UKOA), co-funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Continue reading An updated synthesis of the impacts of ocean acidification on marine biodiversity
Source: IPS
Author: Thalif Dean
– At a political level, when the United Nations speaks of a “high seas alliance”, it is probably a coalition of countries battling modern piracy in the Indian Ocean.
Continue reading U.N. Aims at Treaty to Protect Marine Biodiversity
Source: Business Insider
Author: Jennifer Welsh & Leslie Baehr
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) new release includes a warning that the effects of climate change on our oceans and fisheries are potentially devastating. In the summary of the report, there were a few maps detailing the impact of climate change on fisheries and ocean pH levels.
Continue reading These Two Maps Show How Climate Change Is Destroying The Oceans
Source: gulfnews.com
Author: Suzanne Goldenberg
This is the last frontier: the ocean floor, 4,000 metres beneath the waters of the central Pacific, where mining companies are now exploring for the rich deposits of ores needed to keep industry humming and smartphones switched on.
Source: The Guardian Observer
Author: Suzanne Goldenberg
This is the last frontier: the ocean floor, 4,000 metres beneath the waters of the central Pacific, where mining companies are now exploring for the rich deposits of ores needed to keep industry humming and smartphones switched on.
Continue reading Marine mining: Underwater gold rush sparks fears of ocean catastrophe
Source: International Business Times
Author: Kukil Bora
An international team of researchers have used advanced climate models to measure future loss of deep-sea marine life, and have found that even the most remote aquatic ecosystems are not safe from the impacts of climate change.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Author: Alan B. Sielen
Of all the threats looming over the planet today, one of the most alarming is the seemingly inexorable descent of the world’s oceans into ecological perdition. Over the last several decades, human activities have so altered the basic chemistry of the seas that they are now experiencing evolution in reverse: a return to the barren primeval waters of hundreds of millions of years ago.
Continue reading The devolution of the seas: the consequences of oceanic destruction
Source: BBC News
Author: Roger Harrabin
The health of the world’s oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously been thought, a report says. A review from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), warns that the oceans are facing multiple threats.
Source: Greenpeace International
A new report from Greenpeace International has found that the potential impact of deep sea mining is not properly understood. Mining could devastate biodiversity hotspots and endanger deep sea organisms as sediment waste and pollution from toxic heavy metals are discharged. This comes as only 3% of the world’s oceans and less than 1% of the high seas are protected, making them among the most environmentally vulnerable places on Earth.
Continue reading New report from Greenpeace International: Deep sea mining high risk
