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02/24/2018 / By David Williams

Severe “ecological injury” has already been caused by the Sanchi oil spill, which is now threatening reefs, protected marine areas and the fishing industry

Remember the Sanchi oil spill? It has barely been a couple of months since that terrible accident happened, and yet it seems like most people have already began forgetting about it. Sanchi is an oil tanker that recently sank in the East China Sea, causing what some experts are now claiming to be almost irreparable […]

10/26/2017 / By Janine Acero

Largest oceanic dead zone ever measured is in the Gulf of Mexico; scientists conclude pollution caused by industrial agriculture

Scientists have recently announced the largest oceanic dead zone ever recorded, located in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. A dead zone is an area of water that is unable to support marine life – it is almost completely devoid of oxygen due to extreme […]

04/27/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Mass die-offs accelerate across the planet, by 2020 two-thirds of wild animals will be wiped out

The planet’s animal population is rapidly dwindling, with about two-thirds expected to be wiped out by 2020, a recent analysis revealed. To carry out the study, researchers from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) compiled data on animal population and found that it declined by 57 percent between 1970 and 2012. The research […]

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