1. Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
   Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
2. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
3. Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
4. Coral Reefs
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   All around the world, much of the world's marine biodiversity face threats from human and activities as well as natural. It is feared that very soon, many reefs could die off.
5. Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
6. The End of the Line 
   How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
7. Muddying the waters
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
8. Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
9. Paradise Lost at Sea
   Rethinking Cruise Vacations
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
10. The Rising Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
11. Saving the Oceans
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
12. Sea of Slaughter 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1984
    Documents the white European's onslaught on the North American continent, and its devastating results for other life. Mowat writes of the slaughter of buffalo and walrus, wolves and whales, of the virtual destruction of the salmon fishery on the east coast.
13. State of the World's Oceans
    New Internationalist January/February 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at the how the world's ocean is being destroyed and its effects on the earth.

Experts on Meeresumwelt in the Sources Directory

1. International Hydrographic Organization
2. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
3. World Meterological Organization