Floating sea farms: an ingenious solution to feed the world and ensure freshwater by 2050

The sun and the sea – both abundant and free – are being harnessed in a unique project to create vertical sea farms floating...

Overfishing, Conservation, Sustainability, and Farmed Fish

As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government...

“Get out of the water!” Monster shark movies massacre shark conservation

Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, not only smashed box office expectations, but forever changed the way...

These are the plastic items that most kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds

Image:Shuttlestock How do we save whales and other marine animals from plastic in the ocean? Our new review shows reducing plastic pollution can prevent the deaths...

There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them

Picture: DAN HIMBRECHTS/AAP Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running...

For decades, scientists puzzled over the plastic ‘missing’ from our oceans – but now it’s been found

Jennifer Lavers/AAP You’ve probably heard that our oceans have become a plastic soup. But in fact, of all the plastic that enters Earth’s oceans each...

A rare natural phenomenon brings severe drought to Australia. Climate change is making it more common

Picture: Shuttlecock Weather-wise, 2019 was a crazy way to end a decade. Fires spread through much of southeast Australia, fuelled by dry vegetation from the...

Shark nets and culls don’t necessarily make Australian beaches safer

AAP Image/Sea Shepherd Australia Most of the 24 million annual visitors to Queensland don’t notice the series of seemingly innocuous yellow buoys at many...

Acid oceans are shrinking plankton, fuelling faster climate change

Researchers investigated how acidic oceans affect plankton in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Daniel A. Nielsen, Author provided Increasingly acidic oceans are putting algae at risk, threatening...
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