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🐠 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
🐠 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
Wannabe seabed mining company Trans-Tasman Resources tries to repackage the same bad science and feed it up to the Fast Track expert panel as something new.
#BanSeabedMining #Oceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/a-fast-tracked-farce-trans-tasman-resources-still-hasnt-learned-to-listen/
Wannabe seabed mining company Trans-Tasman Resources tries to repackage the same bad science and feed it up to the Fast Track expert panel as something new.
#BanSeabedMining #Oceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/a-fast-tracked-farce-trans-tasman-resources-still-hasnt-learned-to-listen/
A research team led by Kumamoto University has discovered a new species of sea anemone collected from the deep seabed off the coast of Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/japan/science-health/sea-anemone-species-discovery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #kumamotouniversity #oceans #water
The Hauraki Gulf Protection Act is a significant milestone for ocean protection. It helps restore the mauri, habitats, and living species of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. But the Act contains some big failings too.
#Oceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/the-hauraki-gulf-marine-protection-act-turning-the-tide-for-the-marine-park/?utm_campaign=Oceans&utm_medium=post&utm_source=mastodon
The Hauraki Gulf Protection Act is a significant milestone for ocean protection. It helps restore the mauri, habitats, and living species of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. But the Act contains some big failings too.
#Oceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/the-hauraki-gulf-marine-protection-act-turning-the-tide-for-the-marine-park/?utm_campaign=Oceans&utm_medium=post&utm_source=mastodon
Breaking 🚨 🌊
Cook Islanders holding a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana” have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the emerging threat of seabed mining. 🐙
Kayaktivists held up banners sending a signal that the Pacific movement against seabed mining is strong and wannabe miners are not welcome here. ✊
Pacific activists protest deep sea mining as U.S exploration vessel enters port
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/pacific-activists-protest-deep-sea-mining-as-u-s-exploration-vessel-enters-port/
#ProtectTheOcean #StopDeepSeaMining #StopSeabedMining #oceans #greenpeace #directAction
The good, the bad and the ugly about the new Hauraki Gulf Protection Act. 🌊
This new law will increase protection in the waters of the Hauraki Gulf and is coming into force from next weekend. 🐳
The Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Act: Turning the Tide for the Marine Park
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/the-hauraki-gulf-marine-protection-act-turning-the-tide-for-the-marine-park/
#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #NZPol #HaurakiGulf #TīkapaMoana #greenpeace
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐢🌊 Ancient mariners that shared the planet with #dinosaurs, sea #turtles have navigated our #oceans for 100 million years. All 7 species now face threats from #fishing nets, #plastic #pollution, and #climatechange, but #conservation efforts show hope for recovery.
#climate #marinelife #wildlife #endangered #science #education #animals #babies #beach #biology #nature #ocean #reptiles #tksst #video
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐢🌊 Ancient mariners that shared the planet with #dinosaurs, sea #turtles have navigated our #oceans for 100 million years. All 7 species now face threats from #fishing nets, #plastic #pollution, and #climatechange, but #conservation efforts show hope for recovery.
#climate #marinelife #wildlife #endangered #science #education #animals #babies #beach #biology #nature #ocean #reptiles #tksst #video
A sliver of #goodNews though:
While Central Government kowtows to the vested interests of destructive industries, local government finds ways to stand up and defend the environment in their own regions.
Well done Waikato Regional Council! 👏
Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/waikato-regional-council-proposes-coromandel-bottom-trawl-ban/
Since the #GlobalOceanTreaty passed the threshold of 60 countries a lot more have ratified. The current number is 75! 🌊
But on the 1st of October the state of Palestine ratified the High Seas Treaty or #BBNJ, and I think that one ratification is particularly important to note.
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https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/country/state-of-palestine/
Despite the last minute, undemocratic carve-out for limited commercial fishing in "protected" areas, this Bill is a huge step forward for Tīkapa Moana, the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
Marine protections for Hauraki Gulf on the way
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360819138/marine-protections-hauraki-gulf-way
Power-hungry data centers run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/04/tech/china-underwater-data-centers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #datacenters #oceans #energy
This video from Seafood Watch and the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives orange roughy a red rating for being unsustainably fished with bottom trawling nets that wipe out entire coral ecosystems.
They are rightly telling conscientious customers to avoid buying it.
"It's a red alert if you ever see orange roughy on the menu" -> how's that for NZ's clean green trademark?
This video from Seafood Watch and the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives orange roughy a red rating for being unsustainably fished with bottom trawling nets that wipe out entire coral ecosystems.
They are rightly telling conscientious customers to avoid buying it.
"It's a red alert if you ever see orange roughy on the menu" -> how's that for NZ's clean green trademark?
Looks like a good job in San Francisco for a science communicator with an interest in oceanography.
PRESS RELEASE:
Greenpeace is calling on prospective investors “not to bankroll ocean destruction” by investing in wannabe seabed mining company, Manuka Resources, as they list on the NZ stock exchange today.
#nzpol #BanSeabedMining #Oceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/greenpeace-calls-for-investors-to-boycott-wannabe-seabed-miner-as-they-list-on-nz-stock-exchange/
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