Dr. Marc O’Griofa has led an amazing life. Originally from Ireland, he’s been around the world not once but twice. He’s been cave diving and diving with sharks, even cage diving with Great Whites off the southern coast of Australia. He’s gone skydiving over an extinct volcano in Hawaii. But for all his adventures…..
Simultaneously ubiquitous and ignored, plastic straws have been in the spotlight lately. In the summer of 2018, a video showing a plastic straw being removed from a sea turtle’s nose went viral.
If you want to train to be an astronaut, you’d better know how to swim.
Wait, what?
Lionfish are venomous, fast-reproducing fish that have spread along the eastern Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico, and pose a major threat to Florida’s native species and ecosystems.
Hawaii is known for great beaches, beautiful water and lots of marine life, but the coral reefs around Hawaii are suffering from a killer all their own: tropical invasive algae, one of the most invasive species in the oceans today.
By now, we all know that plastic is bad for the environment. Besides the damage to marine life who mistake it for food, the chemicals that can be released into soil and groundwater (and then move up the food chain), a new study shows that when plastics are exposed to sunlight, they release greenhouse gasses.
