Message in a Bottle, the brainchild of Asher Jay, is a conceptual, collaborative, art installation that offers individuals who hail from a variety of disciplines the opportunity to express their concerns and hopes for Planet Ocean through creative media. This endows marine conservation with a unique united front from which advocates as well as distressed denizens can address the long [...]

Human hair, wool and corn cobs have been used to mop up oil spills. Now waste paper joins the list, thanks to a new project Eco-symbiosis is en vogue. Indeed, this approach consists in using waste from one industry as raw material for another. It appears like an ideal solution for one of the most challenging type of pollution: oil [...]

A new model suggests that inhospitable hydrodgen-sulphide rich waters could have delayed the spread of complex life forms in ancient oceans.   A new model suggests that inhospitable hydrodgen-sulphide rich waters could have delayed the spread of complex life forms in ancient oceans. The research, published online this week in the journal Nature Communications (FInd the Original paper HERE), considers [...]

How continuous monitoring of coastal ecosystems, such as the Black Sea, could help understand oxygen depletion affecting fish populations and better manage fisheries In 2010, nearly two tons of fish was found dead due to lack of oxygen on the coastal line of the Romanian Black Sea.  Oxygen depletion, or hypoxia, occurring in the water is thought to be responsible. [...]

Scuba , tech diving then submersible and ROV's we are now facing a new era in Ocean research and it does not involve human beings.

An assessment of 21 years of live coral import data for the United States, which was published in the December issue of the journal Conservation Letters today, showed that the coral trade increased over 8% per year between 1990 until the mid-2000s, and has since decreased by 9% annually. The article, “Long-term trends of coral imports into the United States [...]

Producing sea shells and algae alongside fish could provide both an environmentally friendly and economically viable solution to make Mediterranean aquaculture sustainable. Sea bass or sea bream, by far the most consumed fish species around the Mediterranean area, increasingly originate from aquaculture. The sector is expected to double between 2010 and 2030, thus becoming prime competitor to mass tourism for [...]

Each year, an estimated 10,000 shipping containers fall off container ships at sea. Although many of these containers float at the surface for months, most eventually sink to the seafloor. No one knows what happens to these containers once they reach the deep seafloor. From March 8 to March 10, 2011, a team of researchers from MBARI and the Monterey Bay [...]

At 125, Scientist Discover The Deepest Coral Reef ever Found on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia A team of scientists from the Catlin Seaview Survey has discovered reef coral living at 125 meters, the deepest ever found on the Great Barrier Reef. [SlideDeck2 id=1650]   The remarkable find of a community of reef corals was made on the outer edge [...]

When Australian based photographer Kim Preston tackles the problem of ocean plastics and the great pacific garbage patch, she opens a door in everyone psyche where esthetics meet the disastrous impact we have on our oceans. We exchanged a moment online and here is what we learned. ~Tell us about your background where you come from; how you got into [...]