Ocean

Health

This sun-powered sponge pulls drinking water straight from the ocean

Most of Earth’s water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but…

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Environment

I’m obsessed with brittle stars: fish often nip off bits of their arms but they regenerate | Ocean acidification

Brittle stars have a lot of remarkable features as a species. Many of them are bioluminescent and can flash blue…

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World

Ancient carbon ‘burps’ caused ocean oxygen crashes — and we’re repeating the mistake

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that massive…

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Environment

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils » Yale Climate Connections

Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out…

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Environment

Is the ocean ‘having a moment’? This was the UN summit where the world woke up to the decline of the seas | Environment

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope … and we are all in the same boat.” So said…

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Environment

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot

I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of…

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Environment

A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas? | Geoengineering

In October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing…

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Environment

New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

It’s a remarkable feat that a small, isolated island nation of just five million people has managed to stake a…

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Environment

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study | Ocean acidification

The world’s oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists have said today, as they warn that a key measurement…

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Environment

The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis | Endangered habitats

On a clear day at Plymouth marina you can see across the harbour out past Drake’s Island – named after…

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