What is putting pressure on ocean systems. This covers pollution, plastic accumulation, climate-driven change, and the cumulative effects of human activity on marine environments. The focus is on what the evidence shows, not what the most alarming or most reassuring account claims.
Ocean Physics
A few degrees of warming in the northeastern Pacific collapsed fisheries, erased kelp forests, and ran up costs in the billions. What a marine heatwave actually does to the ocean, and why finance still struggles to price it.
Stressors
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not the solid island of trash it is usually pictured as. What it actually is, and how it forms, says a lot about how materials move through the ocean.