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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.

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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.

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