Corals 'eat plastic' adds to environmental concerns
Great Barrier Reef coral reefs, Queensland-Australia eat plastic debris in the ocean. This new finding has made scientists extremely concerned.
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Great Barrier Reef coral reefs, Queensland-Australia eat plastic debris in the ocean. This new finding has made scientists extremely concerned.
Since early this year, nearly 230 dead dolphins have been discovered along the coast of US states such as New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia.
Environmental experts say the finned whales are in danger of extinction due to hunting from Iceland and exported to Japan as food for noble dogs.
China's economic boom has seriously threatened the living environment and significantly reduced the area of coral reefs in the South China Sea.
Conservationists warn that the area of coral living in Caribbean is only 10% compared to before. Coral reefs in this area grow very little and risk being completely de…
The Navy and the Philippine environmental workers saved 14 sea turtles after they caught the poachers' nets. AFP said the Philippine Department of Environment staff and…
The Union of Environmental Organizations has issued a statement calling for protection of the marine environment in the Ross Sea in Antarctica to prevent the development…
A pair of sharks, both of which have two heads, are found in a personal collection. One of the above two children was in the vessel since it was discovered in 1934 off t…
Sea turtles are at risk of extinction because they eat plastic bags that they mistakenly think are jellyfish.
Oceanographer David Gallo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as he boarded his ship anchored in the area where the Titanic was resting, saw evidence of a much…
US scientists claim that most of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico has settled to the bottom rather than disappear like officials say.
Over the months, the origin of the oil scum that polluted throughout the coast of Vietnam has not been determined. But oil scum is not the only threat to Vietnam's marin…
An environmental protection organization warns that half of the world's atolls may disappear within 40 years. The World Organization for the Protection of the World has…
The first people to settle in England at the end of the ice age encountered sudden and unstable climate change.
Ancient ancestors of humanity had to cope with climate change to survive droughts, cold and flooding.