Highest-risk findings
Directional picture
Where the findings are
Each regional sea is shaded by its most severe active finding; glowing points are findings with coordinates. Hover for details, click a sea for its page.
Drawing the map…
Tiles sit on a fixed grid, grouped by ocean basin: Arctic at the top, Southern Ocean at the bottom, Pacific on the left, Atlantic in the centre, Indian on the right.
Grey or untinted means no finding in this feed. It does not mean the sea has no problems. Sea outlines are approximate; findings spanning several seas shade every sea they touch. Open-ocean and global findings with no regional sea appear only in the lists and the Explorer.
Severity by category
How the active findings split by category, score, basin and month. Categories are ranked separately, never against each other.
Findings by category
Active findings per category, split by severity level. Longest bar first.
Severity distribution
Active findings at each score from 0 to 10.
Findings by ocean basin
Active findings per basin; a finding counts once, under its own basin.
What drives each score
Average of each 0–2 scoring component across a category's active findings. Darker means more severe evidence.
New findings per month
Findings by the month they were first seen, over the last 24 months.
Primary issue layer
What kind of problem each active finding mainly is.
Climate & Physical: warming, sea level, acidification, ice. Pollution: plastics, nutrients, chemicals and oil. Living Resources & Habitats: reefs, fisheries, habitats, wildlife, aquaculture. Governance & Economy: shipping, energy, mining, treaties, disputes. More
Economic risk
Risk to a fishery, a port, a coastal economy or an operator, from the cited evidence.
Trend direction
Observed direction for each active finding. Early runs have little comparable history, so many findings read as insufficient history.
Ranked findings by category
Ranked within each category by severity score, with the newer source date breaking ties. Categories are not combined into a global rank.
Resolved or stabilized milestones
Recorded for context. These are not ranked as current findings.