Turning Plastic To Oil
What if the 48 million tons of plastic waste we produce each year could be turned into oil? They can.
What if the 48 million tons of plastic waste we produce each year could be turned into oil? They can.
There are a ton of eco-friendly ways to enjoy the water this summer, without firing up the power boat. Check out the latest in wooden kayaks, aluminum canoes, pedal boats, paddle boards and Hydrobikes.
Large sharks have trouble garnering sympathy & protection from overfishing is so poor that 1/3 of open ocean sharks are threatened with extinction…
Born out of one woman’s desire to clean up a beach in 1986, the Coastal Cleanup has become a worldwide movement with over a million participants…
A memoir by David Helvarg of the ocean, family, love, diving and disappearance.
E Magazine has a conversation with Wallace J. Nichols, who’s dedicated his life to bringing sea turtles back from the brink.
Cape Wind Associates’ plans to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts have been met with heavy opposition (see “Catching the Wind,” cover story, January/February 2005). Offshore wind projects received a boost from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which gave the Department of the Interior the authority to grant leases […]
Although the International Whaling Commission has authorized a global moratorium on the sale of whale products since 1982, this has not stopped Japanese fleets from continuing to kill whales (under the banner of “science”) and sell the meat and byproducts on the market (see “The Whale Killer,” Currents, January/February 2003). In late December, two Greenpeace ships came upon a Japanese “research” convoy in the Southern Ocean that was hunting for whales. The Southern Ocean is an Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, which is supposed to be protected from commercial whaling.
More than 100,000 seabirds of various species washed up on Pacific beaches from central California to British Columbia this past summer—at a time when they should have been in peak condition. Was climate change a factor?
A lot of people are worrying about the world’s oceans these days, but the federal government could be doing so much more to head off a marine cataclysm…