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Why Wind Farm Developers Are Pulling Out At The Last Minute

Published Jun 13, 2025 5:49 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Offshore

[By Thomas York] The UK government’s strategy for tackling climate change received a major blow in May when Danish develo...

Open-Ocean Currents Could Generate Electrical Power

Published Jun 8, 2025 10:40 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  The world’s oceans cover more than 70% of Earth’s surface. They’re filled with currents, some much str...

Op-Ed: Australia Doesn't Need to Depend on U.S. Submarines

Published Apr 20, 2025 9:33 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Government

  [By Albert Palazzo] For more than a century, Australia has followed the same defence policy: dependence on a great po...

Op-Ed: We Don't Know What Deep Sea Mining Would Do to the Midwater Zone

Published Apr 9, 2025 6:01 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  [By Alexus Cazares-Nuesser] Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where c...

At a Pivotal Meeting, Nations Decide Whether to Cut Ship Emissions

Published Apr 7, 2025 6:51 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  [By Simon Bullock, Christiaan De Beukelaer and Tristan Smith] You’re probably reading this article on a de...

What Effects Will Trump's New Tariffs Have on Trade?

Published Feb 2, 2025 4:26 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Government

  It’s official. On February 1, US President Donald Trump introduced a sweeping set of new 25% tariffs on impor...

Beijing Struggles to Control Provinces as They Expand Distant-Water Fleet

Published Jan 26, 2025 12:13 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  [By Hang Zhou] Since the late 2010s, China has shown increasing sensitivity to the environmental and socioeconomic im...

Svalbard's Glaciers Have Lost an Area the Size of Manhattan Into the Sea

Published Jan 19, 2025 8:15 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  [By Tian Li, Jonathan Bamber and Konrad Heidler] The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster&n...

Marine Science Nonprofit Elects "The Ocean" to Join its Board

Published Jan 12, 2025 4:37 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  [By Anna Turns] The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the atmosphere’s excess heat trapped by human-emit...

Op-Ed: We Need to Turn the Central Arctic Ocean Into a Marine Reserve

Published Jan 5, 2025 3:38 PM by The Conversation

Posted in: Environment

  [By Kirsten Freja Young and Brendan Godley] At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island o...

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