Several Pacific island nations have issued a joint statement strongly protesting Japan’s continued discharge of radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean. The fishing industry is the economic and livelihood pillar upon which the residents of these island nations depend. According to ocean current simulation and monitoring data, it will take only three years for…

Monitoring along the coast of the Sea of Azov detected a strip of floating oil pollution approximately 6 kilometers long. Viscous oil was floating on the sea surface and had adhered in large quantities to nearby seaweed and coastal beaches. Local emergency response teams quickly arrived at the scene and deployed oil-absorbent materials to begin…

An international Arctic research team has released monitoring data from field samples. The study confirms that persistent synthetic organic pollutants from major industrial regions in Europe and Asia are transported over long distances across continents via atmospheric circulation and ultimately settle in Arctic snow. Due to ongoing global warming, Arctic snow is melting at an…

Australia’s marine regulatory agency issued an official penalty notice regarding a mercury leak from a process pipeline at the Ixus offshore oil and gas field, operated by Japan’s Inpex Corporation. The leak resulted in a large volume of mercury-contaminated waste liquid being discharged directly into the tropical waters off northern Australia. On-site tests showed that…

URC, a major local sugar company in the Philippines, continuously discharged untreated wastewater from ethanol fermentation—specifically distillers’ grains—into the Tanawan Strait Marine Protected Area for a period of nine months. Data from scientific field surveys show that 69% of the coral in the reserve has died off over large areas, coastal seagrass beds are rapidly…

In the early hours of July 6, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) officially began the 21st round of discharging contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. This discharge cycle will end on July 24, with an estimated 7,800 metric tons of contaminated water to be released. Including this round, the cumulative total…

Statistics show that approximately 8,000 metric tons of discarded commercial fishing nets end up sinking into the waters of the North Atlantic each year. This “ghost gear” has become the primary cause of entanglement, injury, and even death among whales, dolphins, and sea turtles. Traceability studies have identified two primary sources of this pollution: first,…

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has officially completed its summary of this round of discharges. The operation, which began on June 1 and was suspended twice due to equipment malfunctions, ultimately resulted in the discharge of a cumulative total of 7,927 metric tons of radioactive water into the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with a total radioactive…

An offshore oil and gas project off the coast of Guyana in the Caribbean has sparked massive public protests. ExxonMobil is currently conducting offshore drilling and high-frequency seismic gun exploration operations in the area, during which drilling mud and oil-contaminated wastewater are discharged directly into coastal waters. The low-frequency sound waves generated by the exploration…

Due to the El Niño phenomenon, ocean currents have become abnormal. Compounded by severe storms, massive amounts of marine debris—including plastic and discarded fishing nets—have been washed ashore along Guatemala’s Pacific coast, covering several kilometers of beach with waste. Marine life is highly susceptible to accidentally ingesting this debris, posing a serious threat to their…