The prototype will be tested off the coast of the Canary Islands, which suffer from a lack of drinking water. Norwegian startup Ocean Oasis has unveiled a prototype floating seawater desalination plant. The device receives energy from ocean waves, reports CNBC. The installation, called Gaia, is a three-story building and weighs about 100 tons. According …
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Respite for the oceans? Rich in minerals, the seabed is the target of mining companies. But for lack of a legal framework, these firms cannot exploit anything for the moment. Allied with states, many are pushing for the International Seabed Authority to give a green light to underwater extractivism. Important negotiations were thus taking place …
At the UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, it was decided that in order to protect the seas, it is necessary to reduce both overfishing and the amount of pollution that enters the waters. The situation in the world’s oceans is alarming. Due to agriculture, more and more fertilizers end up in the sea, which causes …
According to a New Zealand government report, one in three fish are poisoned by microplastics, a huge proportion of native seabirds are threatened with extinction, and warmer oceans are becoming unsuitable for native species. The Ministry of Environmental Protection has determined that 90% of native seabirds, 82% of native waders, 81% of assessed marine invertebrate …
American climatologists have come to the conclusion that the increase in average annual temperatures on Earth not only leads to a more frequent occurrence of tropical hurricanes, but also to a sharp increase in their strength, as well as to an increase in moisture content inside these sea eddies as they approach land. Such cataclysms …
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Sea water stores “memories” in the form of DNA from fish and invertebrates that have recently passed by. This information, called ecological DNA or eDNA, could be used by scientists to track species in space. To track “biogeography”, something like how we predict the weather, McGill professor Jennifer Sunday and her colleagues at the Pacific …
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Its population decreased by almost 90% Off the coast of Alaska, the extraction of snow crab has been stopped. Its population has declined from 8 billion in 2018 to one billion in 2021, the Alaska Fisheries Board and the North Pacific Fisheries Management Board said. Thus, the number of crabs fell below the regulatory threshold …
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Scientists at Oxford University have revealed that ships emit aerosols that cool the atmosphere and mask the climate’s vulnerability to global warming. The results of the study are published in the journal Nature. The team analyzed ship emissions data and developed a new method to quantify the impact of shipping on clouds. It is known …
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On the night of September 29, the Swedish Coast Guard discovered the fourth leak from the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. Recall that earlier the operator of the system – a subsidiary of Gazprom, Nord Stream AG – announced the destruction of three of its threads – they all go from Russia …
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The coast of Paraná broke the record of the year for strandings of marine animals in August. According to the Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation (LEC), of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), a total of 457 animals were found, including birds (81%), reptiles (13%) and marine mammals (6%). The Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) was …
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