Thailand Resort Beach Blackened by Oil Spill
Black waves of crude oil washed up on a beach at a popular tourist island in Thailand’s eastern sea despite attempts to clean up the oil up over the weekend after it leaked from a pipeline.
New Ice Island at Pine Island Glacier
The longest and fastest moving glacier in West Antarctica calved a new iceberg in July 2013.
Stormy Weather Reveals Seaside Trash and Treasure
With stormy weather forecast, conservationists consider the best and worst things that will be washing up on British beaches.
Beach Sand Mining, Saidia, Morocco
The sand dunes along this 14km beach have been eradicated to provide sand for construction along the coast.
Building a region of ocean defenders
It is easy to recognise our deep connection with the oceans, which have sustained and fed our communities for centuries, and undoubtedly many of us share a feeling of longing and awe when we gaze at the beauty of our seas. But it’s also tragic that we can emotionally distance ourselves from the ocean and the great perils it is facing.
Sand Mafia Still Unabated, Algeria
Illegal beach sand mining is reaching alarming levels along the 10 kilometers shoreline from the East of Jijel city to Oued Djendjen area, on the northeastern coast, Algeria.
Latest Blowout Highlights Gulf Drilling Dangers
Once again light is shed on the Gulf of Mexico’s risky relationship with offshore drilling.
Less Ice Equals More Seal Strandings on US Coast
Young harp seals off the eastern coast of Canada are at much higher risk of getting stranded than adult seals because of shrinking sea ice cover caused by recent warming in the North Atlantic, according to a Duke University study.
The Amazing Properties of Saltwater-Saturated Beach Sand
Exactly as a suspension of corn starch (corn flour) aka oobleck, the beach sand immersed in salt water becomes a non-Newtonian system: a fluid whose flow behavior departs from that of a Newtonian fluid, so that the rate of shear is not proportional to the corresponding stress.