Thousands of dead fish washed ashore in southeast Texas this past weekend. The cause of death was low oxygen, meaning fish struggled to “breathe” in the warm weather.
SeaLegacy uses advanced tech to broadcast the destruction of humanity’s most vital resource from its 62-foot sailboat—and it’s impossible to look away.
Mining companies are looking to the ocean floor to extract rare earths and metals that are in huge demand but short supply. How will it work, and what are the risks?
The past month was a flashpoint in the future of deep-sea exploitation – a future inexorably linked to the transition to a decarbonized economy. Deep-sea exploitation is governed by the International Seabed Authority (the ISA), an intergovernmental organization established by the United Nations Co... Read more
A sprinkling of tiny beads recovered off the coast of Papua New Guinea might have come from a rock with a rather interesting history, having crossed light years of space from its origin around a star that’s not our Sun.
Oxygenating oceans and seas will not only bring them back to life, but it can also help with excess carbon removal.
Check out this project that wants to restore the Baltic Sea and other aquatic dead zones by oxygenating them!
https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/17/world/europe/dead-zone-baltic-oxygen/index.html
This has been tried before when the River Thames was pumped with oxygen to prevent fish death.
Check this out! Thousands of fish washed up dead on Texas beaches last year due to low oxygen. Oxygenating the waters can help to prevent this!
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/1181661320/fish-kill-texas-beaches-explained
The world’s oceans and seas are slowly dying. Pumping them full of oxygen might be the only way to save them.
Mining the oceans might provide the much needed minerals and resources, but it is likely to lead to devastating environmental consequences.
Sea and ocean mining might be come a reality in a few years, especially with the help of robots.
Mining the ocean will be very challenging, especially when determining territorial claims in the deep sea.
The sea and ocean floors are rich with very rare minerals that could shape the future of the world.