Farm-raised oysters in the Seto Inland Sea in western Japan are dying en masse, leaving restaurants and retailers feeling uneasy as the high season for oyster dishes has arrived. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/japan/oyster-shortage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #oysters #food #fishing #supermarkets #restaurants #oceans
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Mindful Money has released a guide of Ocean Friendly investments and kiwisaver funds. 🌊
Is your kiwisaver or investment fund harming the ocean?
You can have a look!
Have I ever mentioned how bad cars are?
Marine researchers find biggest source of microplastics in our ocean is vehicle tyres | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580091/marine-researchers-find-biggest-source-of-microplastics-in-our-ocean-is-vehicle-tyres
This is cool.
Mindful Money has released a guide of Ocean Friendly investments and kiwisaver funds. 🌊
Is your kiwisaver or investment fund harming the ocean?
You can have a look!
Have I ever mentioned how bad cars are?
Marine researchers find biggest source of microplastics in our ocean is vehicle tyres | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580091/marine-researchers-find-biggest-source-of-microplastics-in-our-ocean-is-vehicle-tyres
Blue whales fall silent due to starvation, seen as a warning of a collapsing #ocean #ecosystem.
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Blue #whales are calling less than they used to... a strange and heartbreaking shift that scientists link to shrinking krill populations during marine #heatwaves. When these giants struggle to find enough food, they spend more time searching and far less time singing... a change that signals stress in both the animals and the ecosystem they depend on. 🐋
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#vegan #saveourseas
This drop in whale songs is more than a wildlife story... it’s a sign of how climate change is touching even the largest creatures on Earth. When animals this powerful begin to go quiet, it reflects deeper trouble beneath the waves. Their fading calls remind us that protecting the ocean is not optional... it is urgent and necessary.
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#oceans #OceanHealth #BlueWhales #ClimateImpact #climate #vegan #seas
The #Trump admin is proposing to open federal #waters off the entire coastline of #California to #drilling, as well as an area off the coast of #Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #oceans #wildlife #MarineLife #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #OffshoreDrilling #oil #FossilFuels
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/climate/trump-oil-drilling-offshore-california-florida
The #Trump admin is proposing to open federal #waters off the entire coastline of #California to #drilling, as well as an area off the coast of #Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #oceans #wildlife #MarineLife #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #OffshoreDrilling #oil #FossilFuels
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/climate/trump-oil-drilling-offshore-california-florida
A Canadian anti-whaling activist who has dodged arrest by Japanese authorities for more than a decade vowed at COP30 in Brazil to continue fighting for marine protection. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/14/japan/paul-watson-brazil-cop30/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #paulwatson #whaling #environment #brazil #oceans
And rounding up the week with a bit of #GoodNews for the ocean on the deep sea mining front. 🐙 🌊
Cook Islands seabed mining decision delayed following local opposition
The community in Waikato has taken a bold step to ban bottom trawling and other damaging fishing methods in most of the coastal area around them. 🌊 💪
But of course now the greedy fishing industry lobby has announced they will try to stop the regional council's decision to continue unrestricted profiting off ocean destruction. 🐟
We stand in solidarity with mana whenua, local leaders, scientists and environmental advocates that want to protect the ocean for everyone. 🌏
Industry opposition to bottom trawling ban “outrageous”
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/industry-opposition-to-bottom-trawling-ban-outrageous/
#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #NZPol
🫧 An Innovative Solution Method for the Evaluation of CO2 Disposal in the Seafloor Environment
https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5629/11/4/81
#climatechange #co2 #oceans #carbonstorage #supercritical #seafloor
🫧 An Innovative Solution Method for the Evaluation of CO2 Disposal in the Seafloor Environment
https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5629/11/4/81
#climatechange #co2 #oceans #carbonstorage #supercritical #seafloor
Coastal erosion is threatening to reduce the populations of three types of endangered sea turtles known to nest in Okinawa Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/japan/okinawa-sea-turtles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #oceans #okinawa #environment #seaturtles #endangered
Nearly half of the UK’s most commercially valuable fish populations are either overexploited, critically low or both, according to a new report warning that the government continues to set catch limits above scientific advice.
The report found that 17 of 105 U.K. fish stocks are both overfished and overexploited. Another five stocks, including haddock and pollock, were considered healthy in 2023 but have since been downgraded.
by Shanna Hanbury
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/uk-fish-stocks-in-trouble-as-catch-limits-exceed-scientific-advice-report/
Marine Microbiology: Ecology & Applications: Fourth Edition by Colin Munn et al, 2026
The fourth edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new discoveries and concepts since 2019. This new edition reflects important new findings in marine microbiology revealed by development of high-throughput sequencing, meta-omics, and single-cell technologies, and the ability to analyse and interpret large datasets.
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"But they were unaware that the great majority of the #biota, perhaps 99%, easily streamed through the holes of their nets; the holes were simply too big to capture these microbes. Even when membrane flters and microscopy were used, and they revealed great diversity of #microplankton and #nanoplankton, most #microbes evaded detection. The view of the pelagic web of life that emerged and became entrenched for a century was then based on a tiny fraction of marine biota."
Farooq Azam, 2011
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Oceans in motion
Marine Microbiology: Ecology & Applications: Fourth Edition by Colin Munn et al, 2026
The fourth edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new discoveries and concepts since 2019. This new edition reflects important new findings in marine microbiology revealed by development of high-throughput sequencing, meta-omics, and single-cell technologies, and the ability to analyse and interpret large datasets.
Nearly half of the UK’s most commercially valuable fish populations are either overexploited, critically low or both, according to a new report warning that the government continues to set catch limits above scientific advice.
The report found that 17 of 105 U.K. fish stocks are both overfished and overexploited. Another five stocks, including haddock and pollock, were considered healthy in 2023 but have since been downgraded.
by Shanna Hanbury
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/uk-fish-stocks-in-trouble-as-catch-limits-exceed-scientific-advice-report/
🐠 3D-printed helix shelters increase baby coral survival rates
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-3d-helix-baby-coral-survival.html
#coral #animals #oceans #3dprinting #manufacturing #conservation