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Suggestion of the day (otherwise known as If Helen Ruled The World edict 127):
We should stop describing ocean fish populations as fish "stocks". They're communities of a living organism, not stacked up items in a pantry waiting for us to take them. Just the use of the word implies that they only have value if we take them, and we need to kick that habit. The natural world is not there only for us to extract/plunder/take/damage for short-term gain (and sometimes not even that).
Climate in uncharted waters as hundreds of millions of anchovies and sardines arrive off Irish coast
As global sea-surface temperatures continue to creep up to unprecedented levels, an acoustic survey has recorded three-quarters of a billion anchovies — traditionally found in the Mediterranean — shoaling off Ireland’s southern coast.Lynne Kelleher (Irish Independent)
People are starting to talk about deep sea mining. There are minerals down there - cobalt, manganese, nickel & more - potentially useful for creating a cleaner, greener electrified world. But taking them would cause huge damage to one of Earth's last great wildernesses. So what do we know about this trade-off? What lives down there? And should we cross this line? For Fully Charged, I went to the Natural History Museum in London to investigate:
Ocean Mining: A Gamble with Our Planet's Last Frontier? 🔋
Five thousand metres beneath the ocean's surface lie potatoe-shaped polymetallic nodules, containing millions of tonnes of critical minerals used in the tech...YouTube
Scientists from around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed by mass coral bleaching events caused by record-breaking ocean water temperatures. Water found to be as warm as a hot tub off the coast of Florida last year has moved to the southern hemisphere, infecting the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as well as coral in coastlines in Brazil, Tanzania and the Red Sea. The BBC has more on the threat to marine life.
#Coral #Ocean #Coast #Water #SeaLife
Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway - US scientists
Ocean heat records have been breaking for months. This is the first global evidence of the impacts on sea life.By Georgina Rannard (BBC News)
The Ocean Cleanup’s System 03 Captures Record Amounts of #Plastic From the #Pacific
The #Ocean #Cleanup is currently testing System 03, a massive plastic #pollution collection device that captures tons of floating debris in the Great Pacific #Garbage Patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8drUT_cZy8
The Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup is developing and scaling technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. We aim to remove 90% with ocean cleanup systems and river interception technologies.The Ocean Cleanup
The lowly slug-like sea creature that vomits out its intestines when startled, might be the best chance coral reefs have to survive. The key is for people to stop eating sea cucumbers.
Sunrise at the Obelisk.
The Robe Obelisk was built in 1855 to help guide ships into the bay, and to store lifesaving equipment that was launched by rocket to stricken ships. Erosion of the cliffs it sands on will see it collapse into the sea within the next few decades, with all proposed engineering solutions to save it deemed too expensive.
#sunrise #obelisk #robe #robeobelisk #limestonecoast #southaustralia #ocean
