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Study: Meltwater from the Arctic is Weakening Atlantic Ocean Circulation

Published Nov 24, 2024 8:35 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

[By Laurie Menviel and Gabriel Pontes] A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean...

Port of Weifang Becomes China's First "Carbon-Neutral" Seaport

Published Nov 3, 2024 9:30 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Ports

[By Jiang Mengnan] Weifang Port has become the first port in China to officially achieve carbon neutrality, amid a hu...

Study: Harbor Dredging and Construction Have Increased Storm Surge Risks

Published Oct 18, 2024 5:39 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Ports

[By Philip M. Orton and Stefan Talke] Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent...

Exhaled breath is collected from a dolphin during a wild dolphin health assessment in Barataria Bay in Louisiana. Todd Speakman/National Marine Mammal Foundation, CC BY-SA

Microplastic is Everywhere in the Ocean - Even in Dolphins' Breath

Published Oct 17, 2024 10:13 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

[By Leslie Hart and Miranda Dziobak] Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana ar...

Bottled up in the Black Sea Russia is Having a Dreadful Naval War

Published Oct 4, 2024 1:01 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Government

[By Colin Flint] The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has played out largely on land and in the air. It is a bitterl...

In North Sea, Pollution From Offshore Platforms "Grossly Underestimated"

Published Sep 29, 2024 11:19 AM by The Conversation

Posted in: Offshore

[By Rosie Williams] Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large o...

Antarctic Krill Store an Astonishing Amount of CO2 in the Deep Ocean

Published Sep 22, 2024 3:07 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

[By Angus Atkinson, Anna Belcher and Emma Cavan] Antarctic krill – shrimp-like crustaceans that inhab...

Numbers of deep sea perch have plummeted. Graham Edgar, CC BY

Study: Far More of the World's Fisheries Are Depleted Than We Thought

Published Aug 25, 2024 4:03 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

[By Graham Edgar] When fish are taken from our oceans faster than they can reproduce, their population numbers decline. This ov...

The sailboat is located on the approximate position of a proposed well site, with North Scott Reef in the background (Greenpeace)

Will Australia Reject a Proposal to Drill Under a Coral Reef?

Published Aug 11, 2024 7:02 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Offshore

[By Samantha Hepburn] For decades, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, Woodside, has eye...

After Paul Watson's Arrest, Will He Be Extradited to Stand Trial?

Published Aug 4, 2024 5:55 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Government

[By Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Danielle Ireland-Piper] Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson...