Tag: marine life

Noise from vessels, sonar, seismic surveys and construction can damage marine animals' hearing, change their behaviors and, in some cases, threaten their ability to survive.

"What if you depended on sound for hunting your food and for communication? Do you think it would be disruptive?"

To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.

"Great to see less plastic bags in our oceans, but we need the government to put an end to the use of all avoidable single-use plastic by 2025."

Many scientists see marine reserves as crucial to the health of surrounding waters, giving fishing populations the space they need to grow.

A new study is one of the few to investigate what ocean acidification might do to fish communities.

With South Carolina’s economy dependent on coastal business, such as fishing and tourism, any damage to the coast could have a major impact on the state.

There will be no more fracking in California's offshore waters, at least until the U.S. Department of Interior can analyze the impacts of fracking on the environment.

A new study identifies the 20 most deadly forms of plastic killing sea turtles, marine mammals, and sea birds.

Researchers find high exposure to PCBs could drive some marine mammal to extinction.