Amazon poisoned with toxic Mercury
by DiveSSI - 29th November 2018
The poison threatens humans, animals and plants
The Amazon region is struggling with an invisible enemy: Mercury deposits from gold mining enda...
The Amazon region is struggling with an invisible enemy: Mercury deposits from gold mining enda...
Florida Keys: new “Connect & Protect” campaign
by DiveSSI - 11th February 2019
Florida Keys & Key West focus on tourism
The Florida Keys & Key West Tourism Office is showing visitors the new "Connect & Protect" cam...
Ammunition in the Baltic Sea: monitoring, recovering or leaving behind?
by DiveSSI - 8th February 2019
Researchers provide instructions and decision aids
The Baltic Sea contains a dark legacy of ca. 50 000 tons of dumped chemical warfare agents (CWA)...
Ocean acidification: Experiment proves disturbance of the food web under high CO2 conditions
by DiveSSI - 28th November 2018
Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae
If carbon dioxide levels continue to increase in the atmosphere and consequently...
If carbon dioxide levels continue to increase in the atmosphere and consequently...
Pacific coral reef keeps recovering from coral bleaching
by DiveSSI - 2nd November 2018
Researchers prove historical bleaching events
As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, coral reefs experience coral bleaching world...
As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, coral reefs experience coral bleaching world...
Feed additions in aquaculture damage lobster
by DiveSSI - 19th October 2018
Sea lice treatment has serious side effects
Teflubenzuron is added to the feed of farmed salmon in some cases to treat sea lice infestation. Th...
Teflubenzuron is added to the feed of farmed salmon in some cases to treat sea lice infestation. Th...
Baltic Sea: 500 meters of ghost net salvaged
by DiveSSI - 9th August 2018
Many fish and birds have died in the net
Just before off Warnemünde divers on behalf of the WWF on 7 August 2018 salvaged a ghost net, w...
Just before off Warnemünde divers on behalf of the WWF on 7 August 2018 salvaged a ghost net, w...
New IUCN report on deep-sea mining
by DiveSSI - 23rd July 2018
Previous regulations for the protection of the deep sea are inadequate
The new deep-sea mining regulations which are under development at the I...
The new deep-sea mining regulations which are under development at the I...
Ammunition in the sea: effects only partially known
by DiveSSI - 22nd May 2018
New study points to global problem with explosives chemicals
More than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, countless pieces of ammu...
More than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, countless pieces of ammu...
Lead from fuels still present in European shelf seas
by DiveSSI - 17th May 2018
Element measured in marine environment years after phasing out of leaded fuel
For many decades, lead (Pb) has been released into the atmosphere...
For many decades, lead (Pb) has been released into the atmosphere...
The end of a diving instructor’s career
by DiveSSI - 27th October 2017
A severe diving accident - but why?
In September 2015, the German diving instructor Matthias U. was on a diving vacation in Safaga in the R...
In September 2015, the German diving instructor Matthias U. was on a diving vacation in Safaga in the R...
Atlantic killifish able to adapt to high levels of pollution
by DiveSSI - 28th December 2016
Wild Atlantic killifish populations have been found to possess the
ability to adapt to toxic pollution, according to a new report
published in the S...
Greenpeace finds farmed fish like salmon and trout to be contaminated with pesticides
by DiveSSI - 16th December 2016
Farmed fish is heavily contaminated with the chemical ethoxyquin,
according to a laboratory study carried out by Greenpeace on fish
products like ...
Oil spills and sunlight not a good mix for fish
by DiveSSI - 13th December 2016
Exposure to sunlight in the event of an oil spill lowers the survival
rates of fish that live near the surface during their larval stage.
Corals can influence microbes in their environment
by DiveSSI - 17th October 2016
Researchers have discovered that despite their static nature, corals do
exert some influence on the microbes in the environment around them.
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Toxins in shark products linked to neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s
by DiveSSI - 8th September 2016
Toxins in shark products linked to neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s
Here’s another reason to reject that bowl of shark’s fin the next tim...
Greenpeace cleans up beaches of Spitsbergen
by DiveSSI - 6th July 2016
Remote places no longer untouched by trash
