Marine scientists say the ocean could potentially hold the cure to a range of diseases, if more research was done.
Around 80 per cent of the ocean remains unmapped, meaning the full potential of the sea as a resource for medicine, among other things, is still largely unknown.
The ocean has been looked to as a source of medicine for centuries, but now, scientists say more resources are needed to harness the power of marine life.
Last week, the ‘Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development’ (DOSSDUN), a major new initiative to address this need for more marine research, was launched.
Meet the coastal warrior creating couture from Sydneyâs shore waste
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Artist Marina DeBris starts each day combing the beaches of Sydneyâs eastern suburbs for rubbish that she fashions into a kind of couture called âtrashionâ. Itâs not hard for this âtrashionistaâ to find raw materials for her creations.
âYou wouldnât believe some of the things I find washed up on the beach,â she says â the most common: cigarette butts; the strangest: a latex sex toy.
Model and scientist Laura Wells wears âThe ones that got awayâ, which Marina DeBris made from aluminium cans and plastic bottles.Â
Meet the coastal warrior creating couture from Sydneyâs shore waste
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Artist Marina DeBris starts each day combing the beaches of Sydneyâs eastern suburbs for rubbish that she fashions into a kind of couture called âtrashionâ. Itâs not hard for this âtrashionistaâ to find raw materials for her creations.
âYou wouldnât believe some of the things I find washed up on the beach,â she says â the most common: cigarette butts; the strangest: a latex sex toy.
Model and scientist Laura Wells wears âThe ones that got awayâ, which Marina DeBris made from aluminium cans and plastic bottles.Â
Punctuation s mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
The North Atlantic right whale was the first large whale to be hunted commercially, the first to be protected internationally, and it will be the first to go extinct unless we prevent it. The Basques figured out how to slaughter the massive marine mammals for oil in the 12th century. Whalers from other nations followed, particularly European settlers to North America.
The species was, in the eyes of whalers, the “right” whale to hunt, thus the name. Not only were the whales rotund from thick layers of lucrative blubber, but they also swam near the coast and floated after death, making them easy to catch and retrieve. To boot, by harpooning a calf, a whaler could be sure of bagging its fiercely protective mother.