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
🐠 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