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Today George Eustice - the Environment Minister - responded stating that the Government would support an initial ban on cosmetics containing polluting plastic microbeads.
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Only a fraction of the plastic we produce is recycled. Every year 8 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into our oceans. A fact that most of the world either ignores or is unaware of.
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During their molting season, the concentration of methyl mercury in the seawater at Año Nuevo State Reserve was 17 times higher than normal. Scientists then found the toxin inside the shedded skin and hair that had been taken for analysis.
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According to Vancouver Aquarium president John Nightingale, there is no evidence of a radiation increase in the environment “much above background level” resulting from meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear energy plant after the 2011 Japan tsunami.<
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The gulf is an important spawning ground for bluefin and yellowfin tuna.
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In experiments, juvenile damselfish in dead corals displayed risk-prone behaviours, sitting further away and higher up on the reef patch, and failed to respond to predation cues, compared to those on live coral patches.
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Benzophenone-2 (BP-2) is an additive to personal-care products and commercial solutions that protects against the damaging effects of ultraviolet light.
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According to a study published published in the journal Conservation Biology, sea turtles today are more likely to ingest plastic than they were in the 1980s.
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Scientists working on the Southern California Behavioral Response Study tagged the whales in the California Bight with non-invasive suction cups, which recorded acoustic data and high-resolution movements as the animals were exposed to the control
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Scientists, reporting in the current issue of the online journal Marine Drugs, state that an increase of epileptic seizures and behavioral abnormalities in California sea lions can result from low-dose exposure to domoic acid as a fetus.
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The government wants interim targets leading up to 2020, and targets on clean energy in new homes, to be optional. It also points out that the targets on aviation are pointless while there is uncertainty over the use of biofuels.
Meanwhile, green groups are furious at what they believe is part of an on-going campaign to water down renewables legislation.
The UK has already signed up to an EU target to have 20% of Europe's energy from renewable sources by 2020. That target applies to fuel, as well as electricity.
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A joint study conducted by biologists at Scotland's St Andrews University and West Indies University experts has revealed that an entire population of guppies can be generated by the release of a single female fish.
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"It has to do with where they are feeding in the water column and what they're eating," said Anela Choy, University of Hawaii-Manoa
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Noise pollution in the oceans has been shown to cause physical and behavioral changes in marine life, especially in dolphins and whales, which rely on sound for daily activities.
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But in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Dr Slabbekoorn and colleagues in The Netherlands, Germany and US report how the underwater environment is anything but quiet.
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