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TenneT places artificial reefs near offshore platform Hollandse Kust

TenneT, in collaboration with contractor Equans/Smulders, has placed several artificial reefs near the offshore transformer platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) to gain further knowledge about nature-inclusive construction.

Marine plastic waste can spread antimicrobial resistance

Bacteria discharged to the oceans in sewage and wastewater thrive on the biofilms that form on plastic waste. This may be leading to the somewhat unanticipated problem of antimicrobial resistance.

NOAA announces $28 million across 2 funding opportunities to tackle marine debris

Funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will bolster NOAA efforts to address marine debris in U.S. waterways, the ocean and Great Lakes

Ocean-based negative emissions technologies: A governance framework review

According to scientists, the ocean's capacity to remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could be enhanced by various means, including the addition of alkaline substances

New summer ocean temperature records set for two sites on ONC’s Pacific observatory

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has recorded the highest daily average summertime temperatures at two of its seafloor observatory sites in the northeast Pacific Ocean since continuous live monitoring started there in 2009.

Coral reefs benefit from reduced land-sea impacts under ocean warming

New research finds that simultaneously reducing land- and sea-based human impacts supports coral reef persistence in our changing climate.

Deep-Sea Trench: Garbage dump on the sea floor

Plastic waste found at a depth of 9,600 meters

Study: The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change

The ocean's color has changed significantly over the last 20 years, and the global trend is likely a consequence of human-induced climate change, report scientists at MIT, the National Oceanography Center in the U.K., and elsewhere.

Prysmian Group and Giancarlo Pedote launch Sailing4Ocean project

Data will be collected to monitor the state of the oceans' health using the Group’s proprietary PRY-CAM technology.

Australian reefs a lifeboat for sharks and rays as global populations decline

The main driver of the population declines was found to be widespread overfishing.

Ukrainian border guards: Black Sea is turning into garbage dump and animal cemetery

On June 6, Russia destroyed the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant across the Dnipro River, occupied by Russian forces

Plastic can drift far away from its starting point as it sinks into the sea, study says

In a new study in Environmental Science & Technology, one team used computer modeling to study how far bits of lightweight plastic travel when falling into the Mediterranean Sea.

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