Rubbish Road (Pt. 2) – The Locations
Indonesia consists of ca 17,000 islands, it is the largest archipelagic state in the world with 1.9M square kilometres surface area. It is home to 260 M people and Number […]
Science
Rubbish Road –
a research journey (Pt. 1)
FiveOceans is working on a study to explore the waste streams in Indonesia on land. Inspired by the question “Where does your waste go?” We are committed to revealing first […]
Meet the Team: Meghan
The moment I fell in love with the ocean is still vivid in my memory. I was five years old out on my parents boat in the San Juan Islands […]
What the new study about ocean plastics tells us – Part 2 “Where is all the plastic gone?”
“Little is known about the transformations of plastics in seawater, including the time scales of degradation and its ultimate sinks. Weakened by UV radiation, chemical degradation, wave mechanics and […]
The Issue With Seabed Mining
We know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the bottom of our oceans. What little we know about the deep sea may however lead to […]
Researchers Find High Levels Of Unnatural Waste in Our Fish
When discussing the pollution of earth’s oceans we often get the impression that the repercussions are yet to come. The waste is, however, already there and it is affecting lifeforms […]
Watch List: VICE Toxic – Garbage Island
An Ocean Full of Plastic (Part 3/3) “As if polluting an entire hemisphere’s worth of the ocean with plastic weren’t enough, we’ve also poisoned the food chain. Congrats, humanity. We’re […]
TED Pointer -> Sylvia Earle
Her “Deepness” about her mission: Save our oceans