Climate Oceans
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![A diver is shown alongside a coral reef many times taller and wider than he is.]()
![A diver is shown alongside a coral reef many times taller and wider than he is.]()
The business case for saving coral reefs
A growing body of research shows the nation’s coral reefs protect $1.8 billion in economic assets each year and should be protected for our sake and their own.
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![Activists from Greenpeace stand next to a ship called the Arctic Sunrise. In the foreground, an activist stands with her back to us, and her shirt reads Stop Deep Sea Mining.]()
![Activists from Greenpeace stand next to a ship called the Arctic Sunrise. In the foreground, an activist stands with her back to us, and her shirt reads Stop Deep Sea Mining.]()
Norway hits the brakes on mining the Arctic Ocean — for now
The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and its dependence on the extraction of the ocean’s riches.
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![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
How Trump could bring fish farms to the Gulf of Mexico
"If we care about climate change, we shouldn't have them in our oceans."
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![Hurricane Milton satellite photo October 8 2024]()
![Hurricane Milton satellite photo October 8 2024]()
How Hurricane Milton exploded into an ‘extraordinary’ storm
Milton's wind speeds skyrocketed by 90 mph in 24 hours. It’s one of the fastest intensification events scientists have ever witnessed in the Atlantic.
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![A scuba diver photographs two rows of bright white coral.]()
![A scuba diver photographs two rows of bright white coral.]()
For Florida corals, unprecedented marine heat prompts new restoration strategy — on shore
North America’s only barrier reef is withering from heat and disease. Can efforts to preserve and propagate the corals at land-based facilities save them?
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![An underwater photo of rocky nodes on the sea floor]()
![An underwater photo of rocky nodes on the sea floor]()
Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
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![A worker sorts plastics at a sorting and compacting facility in Bang Phli in Samut Prakan, Thailand]()
![A worker sorts plastics at a sorting and compacting facility in Bang Phli in Samut Prakan, Thailand]()
One way a plastics treaty could help the Global South: Fund waste management
Tackling plastic’s entire lifespan, from production to disposal, could eliminate most of the pollution it generates. But a vast expansion of waste management is a “crucial prerequisite.”
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![The white and yellow flower of a Key Largo cactus is seen in full bloom. The plant is the first species in the U.S. driven to extinction by sea level rise.]()
![The white and yellow flower of a Key Largo cactus is seen in full bloom. The plant is the first species in the U.S. driven to extinction by sea level rise.]()
In a first, rising seas drove an entire species to extinction in the US
Sea level rise has eradicated a U.S. species for the first time. What's next?
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![Two men have a conversation as Royal Caribbean International's Spectrum of the Seas docked across the harbour at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong.]()
![Two men have a conversation as Royal Caribbean International's Spectrum of the Seas docked across the harbour at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong.]()
How cleaning up shipping cut pollution — and warmed the planet
When the maritime sector slashed sulfur emissions, it became an accidental experiment in geoengineering.
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![A researcher in scuba gear counts fish swimming around a coral reef at Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.]()
![A researcher in scuba gear counts fish swimming around a coral reef at Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.]()
A Biden effort to conserve oceans is leaving out Indigenous peoples, report finds
U.S. Pacific territories bear the burden of marine protected areas while missing out on economic benefits.
