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Cimatu calls on Filipinos to cut down on plastic use as PHL among top 5 countries throwing plastic in oceans

  (Eagle News) – Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has called on all Filipinos to cut down on plastic use as…

Desalination produces more toxic waste than clean water

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- More than 16,000 desalination plants scattered across the globe produce…

World’s oceans are heating up at a quickening pace: study

TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- The world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a…

Biggest coral reseeding project launches on Great Barrier Reef

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Scientists have launched the largest-ever attempt to regenerate coral on the endangered Great Barrier Reef by…

Handful of states hold fate of world’s vanishing wilderness

by Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies…

Researchers turn to oysters as pollution-tracking sentinels

by Régine LAMOTHE Agence France Presse ARCACHON, France (AFP) -- French researchers hoping to get an early warning on pollution…

‘Devastating’ dolphin loss in Florida red tide disaster

  by Kerry Sheridan Agence France-Presse SARASOTA, United States (AFP) -- A state of emergency has been declared in Florida as…

New Zealand kayaker finishes epic solo Tasman voyage

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP)--A New Zealand adventurer has become the first person to kayak the Tasman Sea solo after a…

Ocean plastics raise risk of coral reef disease

  MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- When coral reefs come in contact with plastic trash in the ocean, their risk…

New ocean drilling findings may change plate tectonics textbooks: scientists

CHINA (Reuters) - The newest outcome of the third expedition to the South China Sea may rewrite the textbooks of…

Rising seas set to double coastal flooding by 2050: study

by Marlowe Hood Agence France Pesse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Rising sea levels driven by global warming are on track…

Dutch design breakthrough fast-tracks oceans clean-up plan

by Jo Biddle Agence France Presse UTRECHT, Netherlands (AFP) -- A Dutch engineer aiming to clean up vast ocean "garbage…

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