Tag: marine pollution
ReSea Project calls on fishing industry to help tackle issue of plastic pollution. ReSea Project is calling on companies and organisations in the fishing industry to upscale their environmental credentials by signing up to […]
Ireland unveils new ‘Clean Oceans’ initiative. Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has unveiled a new a Clean Oceans Initiative Fishing Gear Retirement Scheme that coincided […]
Azores fishery becomes plastic neutral. The Azores pole-and-line fishery has become the world’s first ‘plastic neutral’ fishery’ As part of an annual ghost gear removal competition project in 2021, the […]
Call for innovators to create alternative seafood packaging to EPS boxes. Expanded polystyrene has been the material of choice for packing fish and eggs for many years. It is tough, […]
An in-depth investigation of the problem of ghost gear. Each year KIMO Sweden present a scholarship to investigate a pressing environmental problem. The scholarship holder for 2021, Anna Axelsson, focused […]
Turning the tide on ocean plastic pollution in the Maldives. New plastic neutrality project presents Maldivian fishers as a remarkable solution to ocean pollution. The net retrieval and turtle release […]
Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas. Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean—by colonising plastic pollution. […]
Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos. An article fom Mongabay news website. “Ecuador is proud to announce the creation of the Hermandad Marine Reserve in the […]
The SeaCleaners and APSI join forces against plastic pollution in the Bali region. No handshake to close this call (12,000 km away), but the heart was there! In order to […]
Concrete steps taken against ghost nets in Mediterranean and Black Sea. While the international community zeroed in on the critical importance of the environment for our future at the COP26, […]
Citizen scientists contribute to environmental research. Ahead of the Global Citizens Assembly at COP26 in Glasgow, a team of international researchers is calling attention to a ground-breaking report on the sources […]
NE Scottish beaches are cleaner than before. Beaches in the north east of Scotland were up to six times cleaner between 2019 and 2020 compared to previous surveys in the […]
Maritime rope could be adding billions of microplastics to the ocean every year, study suggests. The hauling of rope on maritime vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering […]
Scottish public express concern over plastic litter in seas. The attitudes and behaviours of Scottish residents on the marine environment and the litter in our seas were published in last […]
Canada launches new ‘ghost gear’ reporting system. The Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, has announced a new online system that makes it […]
New KIMO scholarship holder announced. Anna Axelsson has been appointed KIMO’s scholarship holder this year. KIMO’s mission is to unite local governments, prevent pollution and protect, preserve and enhance the […]
UK helps Sri Lanka in marine pollution expertise. Following the X-Press Pearl container vessel fire that started in May and raged for 12 days, the UK Government is providing marine […]
Local actions against a global problem? Sötenas Marine Recycling Centre shows how it’s done. Sötenas municipality in western Sweden may be small in size but it’s having a big impact […]
Managing global climate change — and local conditions — key to coral reefs’ survival. Australian researchers recently reported a sharp decline in the abundance of coral along the Great Barrier […]
Fish have been swallowing microplastics since the 1950s. Forget diamonds — plastic is forever. It takes decades, or even centuries, for plastic to break down, and nearly every piece of […]
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