Thousands of baby Chinook salmon have lost their lives to a faulty wiring mishap that cut off their water supply. Officials from the Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that the electrical issue caused a necessary pump to switch “off” and caused the flow of water to stop at the Thermalito hatchery. Initial estimates from […]

Following a major earthquake in March 2011, a 15 meter-high tsunami ravaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Though the reactors immediately shut down after the quake, the giant wave that hit Fukushima’s shores disabled the emergency generators that power and operate the pumps that cool the reactors. The insufficient cooling resulted in the nuclear […]

In an effort to be part of the revolution for sustainable living, Adidas has created a new shoe made out of plastic waste collected from the ocean. According to their official press release, the German sportswear giant has collaborated with environmental advocate group Parley for the Oceans to incorporate recycled plastic in their trademark running shoe […]

The oceans of Earth have been home to countless creatures over the course of the planet’s lifetime. But the once-friendly bodies of water that stretch between continents have grown inhospitable for many of its former residents, and as such, an unprecedented amount of ocean life die-off is occurring. The destruction of Earth’s oceans and the […]

The biggest threat to humanity’s survival as a species on planet earth isn’t the green, cone-headed alien figures with oblong eye sockets that you see in the movies. It’s extraterrestrial microbes that some scientists fear could hop onto spacecraft and act as stowaways to quietly inhabit our planet and attack humans. These microbes, a new […]

Plastic waste has been accumulating in the oceans since as far back as the 1920s; just a few years after Leo Baekeland accidentally invented the first type of plastic called bakelite, back in 1907. The use of plastic exploded in the 1950s, and scientists began documenting the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans as […]

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, first commissioned in 1971, was one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world, until it sustained massive damage when Japan was hit first by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and then a massive tsunami, on March 11, 2011. Close to 16,000 people died in the disaster, with […]

The next time you order fish at your favorite restaurant, or bring some delicious seafood home from the market for dinner, you might just be getting more than you were bargaining for. A report published by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), has revealed that microplastics – […]

In recent weeks, two new landmarks were crossed in the ongoing, inexorable spread of radioactive material from the 2011 Fukushima disaster toward North America’s west coast. In November, researchers from the Fukushima InFORM project detected the radioactive isotope Cesium-134 (Cs-134) in Canadian salmon. Then on December 9, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution detected Cs-134 […]

The US Navy recently admitted it has been conducting exercises in US waters using bombs, missiles, sonar buoys, high explosives, bullets and other toxic chemical containing materials. This includes lead and mercury, which are both harmful to wildlife — and  humans. Sonar buoys weigh between 36 and 936 pounds, many of which contain up to […]

Niigata City is the capital of the Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It is located on the island’s west coast adjacent to the Sea of Japan. Depending on the route taken, Niigata is a mere three to four hour drive across the island to the east coast town of Namie and other cities that remain desolate, abandoned and set apart inside a nuclear exclusion zone, the result of the […]

At the current rate, by 2050 the world’s oceans just may contain more plastic bottles than fish due to the fact that 8 million tons are being dumped into oceans every single minute. As noted by The Huffington Post, citing a report [PDF] from the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, there are […]

As cities and agricultural operations continue pumping water out of the ground faster than nature can replenish the supply, our nation’s aquifers are beginning to run dry. USA Today and The Desert Sun performed an analysis of the current state of the nation’s aquifers using U.S. Geological Survey data. The results of the study have […]

Beached whale carcasses and locus infestations sound like Biblical plagues straight from the Old Testament, but they are a reality afflicting segments of the globe. Consequently, many people are wondering whether these episodes are an ominous warning to the rest of the world. Last January, the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme unveiled information that 1,000 […]

The tragedy of Fukushima has been on going since 2011, but the death of our oceans has been oa slow burn for decades. In 2008, the Scientific American reported that there were 406 dead zones — meaning there was not enough oxygen to support life — worldwide. At that time, the blame was from fertilizer […]