Melting Oceans

Melting Oceans is dedicated to bring public the issues of water preservation and environmental protection. Spread the word.

[meltingoceans]

Saving The Great Barrier Reef

If you have ever been or read about the barrier reef, you would know that it is the biggest reef system in the world, home to tons of fish and underwater creatures, big and small. It is so big it can be seen from space and is in fact the biggest single structure made up of individual living organisms. 

Australia’s legendarily irresponsible mining industry has a new plan: build the world’s largest coal mining complex, and then build a shipping lane to that port straight through the reef.

Please sign this petition to put pressure on the Australian Government to re-think this travesty.

Click here to read more: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/australian_coal_disaster_global/?tSQygbb

[meltingoceans]

Do We Have The Courage To Face The Reality Of Our Time?

MIDWAY : a short film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo.

The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy—and our own complicity—head on. And in this process, we find an unexpected route to a transformational experience of beauty, acceptance, and understanding.

We frame our story in the vividly gorgeous language of state-of-the-art high-definition digital cinematography, surrounded by millions of live birds in one of the world’s most beautiful natural sanctuaries. The viewer will experience stunning juxtapositions of beauty and horror, destruction and renewal, grief and joy, birth and death, coming out the other side with their heart broken open and their worldview shifted. Stepping outside the stylistic templates of traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY will take viewers on a guided tour into the depths of their own spirits, delivering a profound message of reverence and love that is already reaching an audience of tens of millions of people around the world.

Related: Sir David Attenborough talks about plastic and tells us the hard truths about it’s use and the cost to the environment.

[meltingoceans]

Banning Plastic Bags in Los Angeles City

Following in the footsteps of San Francisco, Seattle, and other cities around the world, the Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban single-use plastic bags. The city of angels consumes over 2 billion plastic bags annually and the council spends millions of tax money in collecting them. 

Plastic bags have a huge environmental cost as they enter landfills, waterways and ultimately the ocean.  A massive conglomeration of plastic waste in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean is said to be one or two times the size of the US state of Texas, according to Greenpeace. 

Campaign groups fought hard for the measure, which received 11-1 votes in favor from the council. The measure will go into effect on January 1st, 2014, and it makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to ban plastic bags. Not only that, but it means that by the end of 2014, over 30% of California’s population will be covered by laws regulating plastic and paper bags.

For those of you out there who still aren’t convinced that banning plastic bags is a good idea, then you must take a really good look at this photo of 100 plastic bags found in a dead sperm whale’s stomach. 

Related: This video reveals both the real magnitude of the plastic pollution problem and the shocking fact that we humans are also eating plastic junk.

[meltingoceans]

Underwater Exploration - Photos From Various Categories & Competitions

Back to Home Page

  Credits:

http://www.worldshootout.org/

http://www.eilatredsea.com/

http://www.underwater-festival.com/en/

[meltingoceans]

In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case.

[meltingoceans]

What do emptier waters look like?

The oceans are out of site and out of mind – people can't and don’t want to protect anything they can't see. It is vital we reveal the oceans and their deteriorating state.

The Guardian have compiled 200+ oceans-related datasets into an interactive web aquarium that shows the decline in fish populations over the past 100 years. See it for yourself here.

[meltingoceans]

Disturbing video captured by the Midway team. A beach “cleanup” quickly reveals both the real magnitude of the plastic pollution problem and the shocking fact that we humans are also eating plastic junk, not only figuratively, but quite literally as well.

Visit Midway to discover more.

[meltingoceans]

Sir David Attenborough talks about plastic and tells us the hard truths about it's use and the cost to the environment.