Ocean Issues

There are many environmental issues that threaten our oceans, species at sea and life as we know it on land. Check out the brief discussions below.

Overfishing

Many fisheries in deep trouble

How overfishing hurts reefs

Climate Change

Five ways climate change is affecting oceans

Global hot maps - impacts and solutions

Coral Bleaching

Shark Finning

What is shark finning?

Shark extinction

Shark Carnage and CITES

Plastics

NOAA on plastics

8 Million tons of plastic into the ocean yearly

Acidification

What you need to know

Status + projections

dead zones

Dead zones the size of U.S. States

What is a dead zone?