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Part one of (Photo: Thierry Meirer Pkepaemboiu/Unsplash) April 7, 2021 For millennia, people have perceived the ocean as endlessly bountiful. Owned by none. Teeming with life. Ours for the taking.  But during the past couple of decades, that narrative of inexhaustibility has been upended. The biggest fish are fished out. Sharks are becoming rare. Many marine mammals are on the brink. Even plankton populations are shifting and thinning out.  And at the same time, the very chemistry of the global ocean is changing, driven by the growing carbon load in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels...

How data is transforming the way we care for the ocean There is now overwhelming evidence that the future economic and ecological prosperity of the planet depends on a healthy ocean. At the same time, the science is clear that we have pushed our planet, and especially the ocean, to the point where its ability to provide the sustainable resources and value that people need is in danger. Happily, the last year has seen unprecedented commitments from governments, businesses, the United Nations and others to address these problems. The UN has proclaimed 2021-2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science fo...

DeepGreen hits backs at firms opposing seafloor mining DeepGreen intends to produce metals from polymetalic rocks, found in deep oceans. ( Image courtesy of DeepGreen Metals.) Canada’s DeepGreen Metals, a seafloor mining hopeful that recently announced plans to go public, is hitting back at companies including Google and BMI for committing to not buying minerals extracted from the seafloor until the environmental risks of the activity are “comprehensively understood.” BMW, Volvo, Google and Korean battery maker Samsung SDI became on Wednesday the first global businesses to support a ...

‘Minke whales for dinner’: Norway’s controversial whale hunt is still on Norway has announced that it will target up to 1,278 common minke whales in its upcoming whaling season, which is the same quota as the past two years. While the Norwegian government says its whaling program is sustainable, some scientists, conservationists and animal welfare experts counter this claim. These anti-whaling advocates also point to a growing body of evidence that suggests that whales play a pivotal role in regulating the marine ecosystem, and that whales are worth more alive than dead. There has been ...

How to produce offshore energy without harming the oceans Offshore wind capacity will need to be increased across the world to meet international climate commitments, but with as little harm as possible to wildlife. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Turbines of a wind farm lay in the wake of a maintenance boat in the mouth of the River Mersey. “No landscape on Earth is safe” if the fight against climate change “trumps all other environmental concerns,” wrote the US novelist Jonathan Franzen in 2015. Perhaps nowhere is the pressure between climate action and protec...