On Friday March 5, the UK government closes a public consultation on whether or not to create the world’s largest Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Islands. Commercial fishing companies…

Chris Jordan, art photographer, tries to show the consequences of mass consumption in his pictures. The small island archipelago of Midway, halfway between the USA and Asia, in the northern…

The mountain of waste resulting from mass consumption of non-organic materials such as all kinds of plastics, will leave an “unbearable stamp” on the coming centuries. We must stop using…

Did you know that you can get an underwater heat wave? We’re all familiar with those hot periods when we suffer from the weather, but the underwater world also has…

Hormones turn whelks into hermaphrodites. Tributyltin and hormone research Research on whelks (a type of sea snail, which you’ve probably eaten at some point) led to a bizarre discovery. There…

In around 1900 industry added a hydrogen atom to vegetable oils in order to solidify them. This was the origin of margarine, a longlife fat. It appeared to be quite…

If you regularly eat fish you have eaten plastic as well. It has been estimated that an approximate 244 million kilos of plastic is in our oceans. Most of this…

Who hasn’t heard of Starbucks? Their popularity, for a large part, is due to their signature move: writing or better yet misspelling your name on their coffee cups. The popularity…

The Sardine Run occurs between May and July when millions of sardines – or more specifically the Southern African pilchard Sardinops sagax – spawn in the cool waters of the…

No! Climate change is not the main reason why sea turtles struggle to survive in the world’s oceans. It’s people. People who steal, sell and eat turtle eggs. These pictures…