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Leonardo DiCaprio Has Raised More Than $80m To Save The World’s Wildlands

The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation states its goal as ‘protecting the world’s last wild places’, and has 6 key areas of activity: Wildlands Conservation, Oceans Conservation, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Transforming California, and Innovative Solutions.

Hawaii Marks World Oceans Day With 9 New Laws To Protect Sharks And Marine Life

Beginning Jan. 1 there will be steep penalties for intentionally or knowingly capturing, entangling or killing a shark in state marine waters.

World’s Largest Seagrass Project Proves “You Can Actually Restore the Oceans”

A “game changing” 20-year effort suggests that even severely depleted marine ecosystems can be brought back to life.

Cruise ships restart in Venice, bring environmental protests

The battle for Venice’s future was stark as the MSC Orchestra set sail with some 1,000 passengers. The voyage heralded the return of cruise ships to the historic city of canals after more than 18 months, but the vessel reignited an anti-cruise movement that for more than a decade has opposed the passage of the enormous ships through the fragile lagoon due to environmental and safety concerns.

Filipino scientist takes first ever journey to third deepest ocean trench on Earth, finds plastic

When Dr Deo Florence Onda found himself more than 10,000m below the surface, in the third deepest trench on the planet, he was on the lookout for mysteries hidden in the darkness.

Could ‘engineered’ coral save the planet’s reefs from destruction?

This weekend, conservationists will put the final touches to a giant artificial reef they are assembling at London zoo. Samples of the planet’s most spectacular corals – vivid green branching coral, yellow scroll, blue ridge and many more species – will be added to the giant tank along with fish that thrive in their presence: blue tang, clownfish and many others.

How Scientists Discovered a Massive Toxic Dump Site Off the LA Coast

A massive industrial dump site 10 miles off the coast of Los Angeles has been leaking the harmful chemical DDT into the ocean for decades, according to scientists who discovered the whereabouts of the underwater landfill.

Scientists find three new shark species that glow in the dark

The sharks face an environment with nowhere to hide, so they use counterillumination as a form of camouflage, the researchers say. The kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark and the southern lanternshark were collected from the Chatham Rise, off the east…

As many corals growing in the Pacific as trees in the Amazon, new study finds

A world-first estimate of the number of corals across the expanse of the Pacific Ocean has suggested there are about half a trillion of the reef-building animals.

Feeding Fish Instead of Strangling Them: Corona Adopts Edible 6-Pack Rings

This amazing trend didn’t start with Corona, but the beer-brewing giant may pave the way for other large beverage companies to start using a revolutionary new type of 6-pack ring that could save millions of sea creatures. A Florida craft…