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  • Can Seaweed Farms Help Coral Reefs Fight Ocean Acidification?

    Can Seaweed Farms Help Coral Reefs Fight Ocean Acidification?

    New research from shows why protecting the ocean requires us to measure the whole ecosystem not just one solution. Seaweed is increasingly being discussed as one of nature’s potential allies against climate change. It grows quickly.It absorbs carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.And in coastal waters, that biological activity can temporarily increase seawater pH. That has led…

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  • 5 Surprising Ocean Biodiversity Facts

    5 Surprising Ocean Biodiversity Facts

    From a coral polyp smaller than your fingertip to a whale weighing more than 100 tones, every species in the ocean is connected to something bigger. And perhaps the most extraordinary thing is this: We still don’t know most of them. Scientists estimate that between 700,000 and 1 million marine animal species may exist —…

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  • The Ocean Is the Most Consequential Ecosystem Service Provider on Earth

    The Ocean Is the Most Consequential Ecosystem Service Provider on Earth

    Imagine a company that operates a terminal on a Norwegian fjord. Every year, they conduct biodiversity surveys — photographing seagrass beds, cataloguing benthic species, documenting the ecology around their jetties. Their sustainability report includes habitat maps, species lists, an annual biodiversity index. Their auditor reviews it and signs off. Then the shellfish farming ten kilometers…

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  • Meet SaveOCEAN at ONS 2026: ocean intelligence joins the energy conversation

    Meet SaveOCEAN at ONS 2026: ocean intelligence joins the energy conversation

    How AI and technology are closing the loop between the industry and the sea — live at the Energy Cluster Norway stand, Tuesday 25 August, 12:15. This August, SaveOCEAN heads to Stavanger. We are joining GCE Ocean Technology at ONS 2026 — and we are bringing the ocean technology with us. ONS 2026 is one…

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  • Your Jeans Called. They Want to Talk About the Ocean.

    Your Jeans Called. They Want to Talk About the Ocean.

    Before you read another word, look down at what you’re wearing. There is a reasonable chance you are wearing denim. Four billion pairs of jeans are sold every year. They are the most democratic garment ever made. And every single one of them has a direct line to the ocean. Not metaphorically. Literally. When you…

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  • The EU Is Betting Big on Digital Water. Here’s What It Means for the Ocean.

    The EU Is Betting Big on Digital Water. Here’s What It Means for the Ocean.

    The European Commission just released a Call for Evidence for one of the most ambitious water policy moves in years: Water sector – accelerating digitalisation for better management and sustainability, sitting at the very heart of the European Water Resilience Strategy. On the surface, it’s a freshwater story. But read it carefully and it’s also…

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  • The Ocean Is Sitting on a Methane Time Bomb. A New Report Shows We’re Still Not Moving Fast Enough.

    The Ocean Is Sitting on a Methane Time Bomb. A New Report Shows We’re Still Not Moving Fast Enough.

    Methane is 80 times more powerful than CO₂ as a climate forcer. It drives roughly one-third of all the warming we are experiencing right now — today, not in some modelled future. And according to UNEP’s newly released An Eye on Methane 2025 report, we have just 52 months to meet the Global Methane Pledge…

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  • The Ocean Is Sending Signals. Are You Recording Them?

    The Ocean Is Sending Signals. Are You Recording Them?

    The Ocean Doesn’t Negotiate — But It Does Speak On World Environment Day 2026, UNEP delivered a message that sounds like it was written for the ocean: “The planet doesn’t argue. It doesn’t negotiate. It sends signals.” Rising seas. Bleached reefs. Warmer surface temperatures pushing fish migrations poleward. Microplastics accumulating in sediment layers faster than…

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  • Ocean Conservation Has a Coordination Problem (And Nobody Wants to Talk About It)

    Ocean Conservation Has a Coordination Problem (And Nobody Wants to Talk About It)

    Most ocean conservation efforts are failing. And it’s almost never about the money. That’s the part nobody in the industry wants to admit out loud — because the funding narrative is comfortable. It gives everyone something to point at. Not enough grants. Not enough corporate sponsors. Not enough public budget. If only we had more,…

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  • Four Years On: The Single-Use Plastics Directive Has Not Solved Europe’s Marine Plastic Crisis

    Four Years On: The Single-Use Plastics Directive Has Not Solved Europe’s Marine Plastic Crisis

    The Commission’s evaluation of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904 (SUPD)closed for stakeholder input on 17 March 2026. Four years after the key bans and restrictions entered into force, the directive has delivered partial but insufficient progress. This post argues that the SUPD evaluation must lead to a substantially strengthened regime — one that moves…

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  • Meet the OceanQuest: How 4 Students Built the Platform the Ocean Has Been Waiting For

    Meet the OceanQuest: How 4 Students Built the Platform the Ocean Has Been Waiting For

    A few months ago, a group of students opened a blank Microsoft Azure project sometime around mid-January midday, between a lecture they’d just sat through and a shift they were about to start. They had a thesis to write. Most of them had jobs. None of them had built anything in Azure before. And the…

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  • The ESRS Revision Has an Ocean Problem and One Number Tells the Story

    The ESRS Revision Has an Ocean Problem and One Number Tells the Story

    The European Commission is about to make corporate reporting on plastic pollution functionally meaningless. On 6 May 2026, the European Commission opened a four-week consultation on its revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS 2.0) — the rules thousands of companies must follow when disclosing their environmental and social impacts under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive…

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  • What the European State of the Climate 2025 just told us

    What the European State of the Climate 2025 just told us

    What the European State of the Climate 2025 just told us and why every wave is asking you to do something about it A confession before we begin At SaveOCEAN, we believe saving the ocean starts with understanding it. So we read the 173-page European State of the Climate 2025 — published by Copernicus and…

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  • Seaweed Is Quietly Supercharging Shellfish Farming And It Could Change Everything

    Seaweed Is Quietly Supercharging Shellfish Farming And It Could Change Everything

    What if the solution to one of aquaculture’s biggest problems was already growing in our coastal waters? Climate change is coming for our shellfish. Rising CO₂ is making our oceans more acidic, coastal waters are increasingly starved of oxygen, and the juvenile oysters, clams, and scallops that form the backbone of coastal seafood economies are…

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  • We Built a Free Tool to List and Track How Our Ocean is Changing

    We Built a Free Tool to List and Track How Our Ocean is Changing

    Right now, as you read this, the ocean is quietly absorbing roughly a quarter of all the CO₂ humans release into the atmosphere. It has been doing this for decades — buffering us from the worst effects of climate change. But that service comes at a cost. The chemistry of our seas is shifting in ways…

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  • Ocean Carbonate Chemistry Data Products

    Ocean Carbonate Chemistry Data Products

    The ocean now absorbs roughly a quarter of all human CO₂ emissions, making it both a critical climate buffer and a system under accelerating chemical stress. A new peer-reviewed paper synthesis catalogues 68 existing data products that track changing ocean chemistry — spanning raw cruise observations, long-term buoy time-series, machine-learning gridded maps, and century-scale model…

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  • The Hidden Crisis in Seafood: Why Food Fraud Threatens Our Oceans

    The Hidden Crisis in Seafood: Why Food Fraud Threatens Our Oceans

    The seafood on our plates tells a story. It should reflect healthy oceans, responsible fisheries, and transparent supply chains. But increasingly, that story is being rewritten by fraud. A recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reveals a troubling reality: food fraud in the fisheries and aquaculture sector is…

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  • The Ocean Is Sending Clear Signals. Are We Listening?

    The Ocean Is Sending Clear Signals. Are We Listening?

    What if the ocean is not collapsing but quietly recalibrating in ways we don’t fully understand yet? What if the warning signs aren’t dramatic headlines, but subtle shifts happening beneath the surface? The newly released Ressursoversikt 2026 (Rapport fra havforskningen 2026-7) from Havforskningsinstituttet offers one of the clearest scientific snapshots of Norway’s marine ecosystems in…

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  • 3 facts about fisheries and resource management as a turning point in 2026

    3 facts about fisheries and resource management as a turning point in 2026

    In early 2026, three very different policy moves came into force across the UK and Europe. On the surface, they look technical. Administrative, even. But together, they tell a much bigger story about where ocean governance is heading and where it still risks falling short. From digital traceability rules to offshore fishing restrictions and the…

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  • Stronger frameworks. Clearer accountability. Statutory targets.

    Stronger frameworks. Clearer accountability. Statutory targets.

    The latest news about the UK’s Revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP25) and Scotland’s Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill signal something important:nature recovery is finally being treated as core national infrastructure, not a side issue. Revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP25) The UK’s Revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP25): what it means for the ocean — and why we…

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  • Davos Day 1 wasn’t about “dialogue.” It was about operating systems

    Davos Day 1 wasn’t about “dialogue.” It was about operating systems

    Davos 2026 opened with a deliberate signal: A Spirit of Dialogue wasn’t introduced through policy language, but through an opening concert framed as “many voices” creating a whole — paired with an AI-generated visual installation responding live to the music. That choice matters. It tells you what leaders think they need most right now: not…

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  • Water isn’t the “next climate issue” it’s the operating system everything else runs on.

    Water isn’t the “next climate issue” it’s the operating system everything else runs on.

    in Davos this January, the World Economic Forum is threading that message through its Annual Meeting with something it’s calling “Blue Davos”: a concentrated push to put the entire water cycle (ocean + freshwater + atmosphere) at the center of global decision-making.  What “Blue Davos” is really doing WEF’s “Blue Davos” framing starts from a…

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  • The BBNJ Treaty Just Took Effect. Here’s What the Celebration Is Missing

    The BBNJ Treaty Just Took Effect. Here’s What the Celebration Is Missing

    January 17, 2026 marks the day the BBNJ Agreement ( officially takes effect. While environmental groups celebrate this “historic” ocean protection treaty, the more interesting story lies in what’s not being discussed: the fundamental tensions that could make this agreement either meaningless or genuinely transformative. The Reality Behind the Celebration The high seas—waters beyond any…

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  • Is the Tide Turning? The State of Ocean Pollution at end of 2025

    Is the Tide Turning? The State of Ocean Pollution at end of 2025

    As we navigate through 2025, the question everyone at SAVEOCEAN is asking is simple: Is it finally getting better? If you look closer, past the headlines of doom, you will see something else. You will see movement. You will see resilience. For the first time in decades, it feels like the relentless tide of pollution…

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  • What are 10 principles of sustainability for the ocean?

    What are 10 principles of sustainability for the ocean?

    Most “ocean sustainability” talk fails for one reason: It’s inspirational… but not operational. We’ve all seen the beautiful drone shots of the deep blue and the “Save the Seas” hashtags. But let’s be honest: “Ocean Sustainability” has become a vibe, not a strategy. In boardroom after boardroom, we see “ambition” that disappears the second the…

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  • How can we save the ocean?

    How can we save the ocean?

    The ocean doesn’t need our admiration. It needs our follow-through. Here’s the part most people don’t realize: The ocean has been quietly buffering the damage for us. That’s the trade. The ocean protects us… and pays the price. So when someone asks, “How can we save the ocean?” I don’t start with guilt. I start…

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  • Why early warning systems need blue hearts, not just grey boxes

    Why early warning systems need blue hearts, not just grey boxes

    We treat the ocean mainly as a source of hazards to be dodged, not as a living system that can either buffer us or break us. SaveOCEAN exists to challenge that. Protecting and monitoring the ocean is not a nice-to-have add-on to early warning. It is early warning. The new UNDRR report on the Global…

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  • Lessons from the north

    Lessons from the north

    There is a specific kind of silence you find in the North. Standing on the edge of a Norwegian fjord, the water looks like black glass—ancient, impenetrable, and indifferent to us. But if you look closer, the silence is a trick. Below the surface and just over the horizon, that water is working harder than…

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  • 10,000 Ships for the Ocean: How the World’s Fleets Can Help Save the Sea

    10,000 Ships for the Ocean: How the World’s Fleets Can Help Save the Sea

    When you picture ocean science, you might imagine research vessels and high-tech buoys. But the next big leap in understanding our changing seas may come from an unexpected source: the commercial ships that already cross our oceans every day. At the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, a new initiative called “10 000…

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  • The World’s Ocean Eyes Are Failing – How SaveOCEAN Can Turn Warning into Action

    The World’s Ocean Eyes Are Failing – How SaveOCEAN Can Turn Warning into Action

    The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) 2025 Status Report confirms that the foundational infrastructure for understanding the ocean is both vital and critically vulnerable. GOOS is calling for a new economic mindset: treat ocean observing as shared global critical infrastructure needing long-term, coordinated, multi-actor investment (governments + private sector). There is a globally acknowledged, quantified…

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  • The Future Is Being Designed. Summary of Dubai Future Forum and Why the Future Needs the Ocean

    The Future Is Being Designed. Summary of Dubai Future Forum and Why the Future Needs the Ocean

    The Dubai Future Forum, Day 1 made one thing very clear: If the ocean isn’t in those blueprints, it gets treated as scenery, not infrastructure.Our job at SaveOCEAN is to make sure the ocean is in the room whenever the future is being planned. 1. A new scoreboard for countries: “national cognitive potential” attention as…

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  • From Patchwork to Plan: Why Integrated Monitoring Are the Only Path to a Litter-Free Sea

    From Patchwork to Plan: Why Integrated Monitoring Are the Only Path to a Litter-Free Sea

    Summary of findings which you may have missed based on the report: Marine litter in Europe: An integrated assessment from source to sea (published 2023). When you skim a big official report about marine litter, it can feel neutral and technical—lots of graphs, indicators, and acronyms. But underneath that calm surface there’s always a story…

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  • Charting a Sustainable Ocean Future: Why The New Ocean Plan Demands Digital Engagement

    Charting a Sustainable Ocean Future: Why The New Ocean Plan Demands Digital Engagement

    Deep-dive inspired by the IOC–UNESCO & Ocean Panel “Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans” Why this moment matters At SaveOCEAN, we believe that saving the ocean starts with understanding it. For too long, ocean management has been a fragmented, reactive, and often sector-specific. But the ocean doesn’t respect bureaucratic boundaries. It operates as one vast, interconnected…

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  • “Tides of Adaptation”: What Shellfish Farmers Are Telling Us About Ocean Acidification

    “Tides of Adaptation”: What Shellfish Farmers Are Telling Us About Ocean Acidification

    Ocean Acidification (OA) presents a clear and present danger to marine calcifies, especially the globally vital shellfish aquaculture industry. A recent study documenting the perceptions and adaptive strategies of Japanese commercial oyster farmers—a key component of global seafood production—offers critical insights, particularly when compared to the post-crisis experience of U.S. West Coast farmers. The findings…

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  • Save the Deep: Why “Plan B” Was Never an Option

    Save the Deep: Why “Plan B” Was Never an Option

    The race for critical minerals is real. So are the risks of treating the abyss as a shortcut. As governments debate whether—and how—to mine polymetallic nodules thousands of meters below the surface, one principle keeps surfacing: pause and prove safety first. In 2025, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) again negotiated exploitation rules (“the Mining Code”)…

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  • From Habitat Recovery to Investable Oceans: What 2025 Taught Us About the Blue Economy

    From Habitat Recovery to Investable Oceans: What 2025 Taught Us About the Blue Economy

    The concept of the Blue Economy, defined as the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and ocean ecosystem health, has evolved significantly characterized by a critical shift: moving from merely recognizing the ocean’s economic potential to prioritizing its resilience, equity, and digitalization. The challenge is to ensure that economic growth does…

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  • Seaweeds at a Crossroads in 2025: Heat, Haze, and Hope

    Seaweeds at a Crossroads in 2025: Heat, Haze, and Hope

    Seaweed forests, kelp canopies and rocky-shore algal beds, are the green engines of our coasts. The latest research thread is clear: climate change is reshaping who thrives, who fades, and how entire shorelines function. But it also maps out where resilience lives and how we can scale it. What’s changing (and how fast) Warming +…

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  • The Day the Sea Rolled Our Trash Back

    The Day the Sea Rolled Our Trash Back

    By late afternoon the beach was breathing—slow, foamy exhalations on a September tide. A boy ran ahead of his mother, chasing something he’d never seen before: fist-sized, straw-brown spheres with wiry fibers, like tiny tumbleweeds left by a wandering desert. He picked one up and froze. In the tight weave of the ball, a blue…

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  • Edges of Ice, Edges of Time: A SaveOcean Call to Action

    Edges of Ice, Edges of Time: A SaveOcean Call to Action

    Some stories are written in ink; ours is traced in meltwater. In just the past few months, the poles have delivered a set of hard, unzippable facts. On September 17, 2025, Antarctic sea ice likely hit its winter maximum of 17.81 million km²—the third lowest in 47 years of satellite records. Earlier this year, on…

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  • A New Report Quantifies the Staggering Cost of Ignoring Our Planet

    A New Report Quantifies the Staggering Cost of Ignoring Our Planet

    The alarm bells are no longer distant; they are ringing in the boardrooms of the world’s largest companies. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Accenture, has released a sobering report, “Business on the Edge: Building Industry Resilience to Climate Hazards,” which shatters the illusion that the climate crisis is a future problem. It is…

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  • Polar Geoengineering Concepts 2025 – What the New Science Says

    Polar Geoengineering Concepts 2025 – What the New Science Says

    When the ice moves, the world moves. A new lead article in Frontiers in Science takes a hard look at five much-publicized polar geoengineering ideas—and comes back with a clear message: they don’t pass scientific, environmental, ethical, or governance muster for the coming decades. Meanwhile, the Arctic has been warming ~3× faster than the global…

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  • How many households rely on reefs for food, work, or safety?

    How many households rely on reefs for food, work, or safety?

    When coastal communities speak, we should listen—and publish receipts. This new NOAA report finally puts numbers on it. Fresh data from NOAA’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) has released the second round of socioeconomic findings for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), based on a representative, in-person household survey (Feb–Mar 2024) across…

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  • Conjunctive Water Management: Turning Storms into Coastal Protection

    Conjunctive Water Management: Turning Storms into Coastal Protection

    Your city has a hidden water battery. 90% of people don’t know it exists. 👀 Most cities treat rivers and aquifers like strangers. In wet months we rush stormwater out to sea; in dry months we over-pump wells and watch saltwater creep inland. Conjunctive Water Management (CWM) flips that script by managing surface water and…

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  • The Blueprint for Blue: Major Strides in Marine Conservation in Aug-Sep 2025

    The Blueprint for Blue: Major Strides in Marine Conservation in Aug-Sep 2025

    The months of August and September 2025 have been marked by significant progress in international policy and technological innovation for ocean conservation. Key events and outcomes focused on a global push for a more sustainable “blue economy” and addressing the interconnected crises of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. 1. Global Plastic Pollution Treaty 🌍…

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  • Ocean Acidification 2025: 8 Facts You Haven’t Seen

    Ocean Acidification 2025: 8 Facts You Haven’t Seen

    Ocean acidification (OA) is often called the “evil twin” of climate change a hidden but accelerating crisis. This article focusses on what the newest science says about ocean acidification (OA)—what it is, why it’s happening, and what recent studies (2025) reveal across very different “use cases.” Ocean Acidification The ocean absorbs CO₂ from the air.…

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  • Understanding Antarctica’s Changing Ice: What It Means for the World

    Understanding Antarctica’s Changing Ice: What It Means for the World

    Antarctica used to be the quiet end of the world. Not anymore. An new article explainer lays out a clear message: sea ice, ice shelves, ice sheets, and deep ocean currents around Antarctica are all shifting at once — and together they add up to a global story we’ll all feel. Why this matters The…

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  • 4 Facts Reshaping 2025 Fisheries in Norway

    4 Facts Reshaping 2025 Fisheries in Norway

    Norway stands as a prominent global seafood producer, with its fishing industry playing a vital role in both national economy and international markets. Historically, industrial fishing methods, particularly trawling and dredging, have been used to increase Norway’s catch volumes. These techniques, while highly efficient in terms of fish caught per unit of effort, are also…

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  • Understanding the Black Sea: Facts, Figures, and 2025 Updates

    Understanding the Black Sea: Facts, Figures, and 2025 Updates

    Looking from the Black Sea beach towards the water it looks simple and calming. Beneath, it is layered: a sunlit surface, a wafer-thin border where oxygen fades, and a deep realm run on sulfur. This is the planet’s largest anoxic marine basin in the modern ocean, a living reminder that seas keep long memories of…

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  • Ocean Conservation Update: Summer of 2025 Highlights

    Ocean Conservation Update: Summer of 2025 Highlights

    The ocean gave us headlines that sting—and a few that genuinely lift. Here’s a clear look at what happened over the last month in ocean conservation, and why it matters. The hard truths Coral Crisis Continue Australia’s Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) report shows the largest annual drop in live coral cover on key parts…

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  • Rubber Ducks vs. the Pacific: The Accidental Science Experiment That Wouldn’t Die

    Rubber Ducks vs. the Pacific: The Accidental Science Experiment That Wouldn’t Die

    If you’ve ever seen a photo of a sun-bleached “rubber” duck on a stormy beach and thought cute, here’s the plot twist: those ducks helped oceanographers map the highways of the sea—and changed how we talk about plastic in the ocean. The day the toys went overboard On January 10, 1992, the container ship Ever…

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