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Opinion: Some W. African Fishing Deals Appear to be "Lose-Lose"
Some of humanity’s largest impacts on the oceans have come from the widespread industrialization of fishing practices&n...
Read More >>Sailboat to Collect and Process Ocean Plastics Gets Design Approval
An NGO dedicated to fighting for pollution-free oceans has won design approval for its unique concept vessel to clean up the ocean...
Read More >>What to Do With Invasive Crabs? This Distiller Turns Them Into Whiskey
A distillery in New Hampshire has come up with a novel way to make a product out of a marine invasive species - the notorious gree...
Read More >>Norwegian Researchers Test "Automated Coast Guard" for Data Collection
[By Live Oftedahl] NTNU researchers from AMOS, the Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, used small satelli...
Read More >>Study: Climate Change Will Affect Wave-Driven Coastal Erosion
[By Thomas Mortlock, Adrean Webb, Itxaso Oderiz, Nobuhito Mori, Rodolfo Silva and Tomoya Shimura] The world’s coastlines...
Read More >>US and Norway Launch Green Shipping Challenge to Build Decarbonization
Speaking with world leaders at the third virtual Major Economies Forum President Joe Biden redoubled the Unites States&r...
Read More >>Pilot Project Demonstrates Cold Cutting for Sustainable Ship Recycling
The first vessel for a new sustainable ship recycling operation in Germany arrived at the shipyard in Kiel where the pilot project...
Read More >>Want to Keep Plastic Out of the Ocean? Burn It Like Coal
[By Kathrine Nitter] Using non-recyclable plastic waste as an alternative to coal may prevent huge volumes of plastic from bein...
Read More >>What is Killing South Africa's Seals?
[By Emma Bryce] From a distance, a seal appears to be napping on the rust-colored rocks; members of its small colony grunt at o...
Read More >>On World Oceans Day, Global Fishing Watch Unmasks Global "Dark Fleet"
AIS tracking partnership Global Fishing Watch has expanded its reach with what it believes to be the first ever publicly-available...
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