Tag: marine

Microplastics Are Becoming Superbug Highways — New Study Warns Beachgoers to Wear Gloves

Prof. Pennie Lindeque added that microplastics “act as carriers for antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, enhancing their survival and spread… each particle becomes a tiny vehicle capable of transporting pathogens from sewage works to beaches, swimming areas and shellfish-growing sites.”

Ocean Action Forum 2025: Can Saudi Arabia Redefine the Future of Marine Stewardship?

Saudi Arabia, a nation better known for its oil wealth, is rapidly reinventing itself as a marine sustainability player....

This fish can taste with its legs

This fish tastes with its legs: It’s “the weirdest, coolest fish I’d ever seen”, says developmental biologist David Kingsley.

Shipping industry puts whale sharks at risk

Whale sharks, the world’s largest fish, are highly mobile and responsive to changes in temperature. Recent evidence suggests they are also particularly vulnerable to ship strikes - where large marine animals are struck and injured, often fatally, by large vessels in the global fleet.

Zooplankton go eww to poo

Zooplankton don't like fecal contamination in water

Deep sea mining and killing the seas so you can drive an electric car

Strange creatures live in the deep seas. Mining will destroy ecosystems.

9 Positive Environmental News Stories that Inspire Hope

Good ecological news for a change. Share these with your friends when you feel doom and gloom. Net zero, marine environments and renewable energy for the win.

The Arabian Sea’s Deadzone is Bigger than Florida, and it keeps growing

New research from the University of East Anglia has confirmed a dramatic decrease in oxygen in the Gulf of...

Penguins swim the Dead Sea and walk Israel’s desert?

Volunteers hope to build an international Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary –– a safe haven for penguins, whales and seals, putting the waters off-limits to the industrial fishing vessels sucking up the tiny shrimp-like krill which Antarctic life relies on.

June 8 is World Oceans Day – Be a Changemaker!

In occasion of World Oceans Day, Green Prophet provides you with some tools for some (much needed) marine activism. What...

Mediterranean Agency Could Avert Offshore Marine Disasters

As Israeli rigs start drilling for natural gas, a new disaster prevention agency is proposed to avert another BP-Florida...

Water Filter Uses Bacteria Beads to Eat Nitrates

Low tech water filters loaded with a nitrate-munching bacterium help clean up fertilizers and feces in water waste. Rainstorms wash...