Don't eat tuna

Monitor vessel

Brown oil and silvery sheen

DAHR JAMAIL visited Louisiana fisheries on harvest day but found the catch sordid

Underwater ship graves

Seventy years after the largest seaborne invasion in history, World War II shipwrecks still pose environmental risks

UNEP chooses Nigeria to lead action to combat marine pollution in Africa

Country will be in charge of coordination efforts of 22 nations

Plastic threat

Plastic toxins in oceans threaten lugworms, which recycle nutrients

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

The coast is not clear

A new report paints a grim picture of the world's coastal areas

Factories poison Khed

Villagers angry over chemical effluents in their drinking water

‘Marine Protected Areas must be evaluated for effectiveness’

At present, focus is only on coverage; quality and effectiveness not assessed, point out experts

Marine pollution, coastal development: Coral reefs need to be saved

Coral reefs face mounting threats: 10% of them have degraded across the globe, another 30% may disappear within next 20 years 

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Fishworkers' campaign draws attention to the sale of marine waters

Troubled waters

Aqua guard

Denmark introduces an advanced system to moniter oxygen depletion and waste dumping in seawater

Microplastics, microbeads: What you did not know about self-care products

Bureau of Indian Standards in 2017 proposed a ban on raw materials not recognised safe for use in cosmetics from 2020. The status of the ban is&…

West Africa’s plastic waste could be fuelling the economy instead of polluting the ocean: Experts

Seas of despair

Heavy metals are polluting the North Sea. And there is nothing we can do

Shoring up

Ahmedabad's mega project for industrial effluents

Documenting dissent

DECOMMISSIONING THE BRENT SPAR·Tony Rice and Paula Owen·E & FN SPON (An Imprint of Routledge), 1999·182pp

Biomonitors for pollution

Seaweeds could act as indicators of heavy metal pollution in sea

Dead waters

The seas around the UK will not be free of radioactive discharges for several years

Spam in fishing net

Dying oceans

Oxygen-deprived zones in oceans across the world have emerged as a huge threat to marine ecosystems