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Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining

Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed mining

The Guardian - UK

US Navy working to recover debris from Chinese ‘spy balloon’

The craft, which Beijing says was a meteorological airship blown off course, was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean.

Al Jazeera

An unusually high number of whales are washing up on U.S. beaches

The unexpected deaths are hitting humpbacks and North Atlantic right whales on the East Coast and gray whales on the West Coast — populations that were already under watch.

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The EU’s ban on Russian diesel won’t really stop fuel flows

For decades, a steady stream of ocean tankers has filed back and forth between a small cluster of ports in northwest Europe and the Baltic Sea. Typically, each would bring about 40 million liters of diesel to help keep Europe’s economy humming. Starting Sunday, that will be banned — along…

Tribune News Service

US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over east coast

Chinese foreign ministry accuses US of ‘overreacting’ and ‘violating international practice’ after balloon was downed

The Guardian - US

US shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean

US President Joe Biden orders the Pentagon shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, as China expresses its "strong dissatisfaction" to the move, threatening "further necessary reactions".

ABC News

US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic ocean

The US military has shot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast.

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Biden admin prepares to shoot down Chinese spy balloon and restricts airspace over Carolina Coast

The Biden administration is going ahead with a plan to shoot down the Chinese balloon over the Atlantic, officials have said.

The Independent UK

US Downs Chinese Balloon over Ocean

The United States on Saturday downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest flashpoint in tensions between Washington and Beijing. An operation was underway in US territorial waters to recover debris from the balloon, which…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brazil sinks rusting old aircraft carrier in the Atlantic

Brazil sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off its northeast coast, the Brazilian Navy said, despite warnings from environmentalists that the rusting 1960s French-built ship would pollute the sea and the marine food chain.

Reuters

Brazil sinks asbestos-laden warship in Atlantic despite fears of ‘incalculable’ damage

Brazil on Friday sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the Navy announced, despite environmental groups claiming the formerly French ship was packed with toxic materials that will contaminate the ocean.

France 24

Bush-to-beach program gives Indigenous kids from flood-ravaged western NSW first ocean dip

About 40 students from western NSW, who spent weeks isolated by flooding last year, are enjoying the beach for the first time thanks to a volunteer-led program.

ABC News

‘Like moving through water while everyone is on land’: the writers exploring sexuality through sea life

A host of LGBTQ+ authors are finding parallels with mermaids, tropical fish and other creatures of the deep as a way to make sense of their own lives

The Guardian - UK

The incredible story of how East African culture shaped the music of a state in India

The term Siddi refers to Afro-Indians – Africans who mixed with Indians through marriage and relationships. Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and arrived in India during the 1200s, 1300s and 1400s. They were transported by Islamic invaders and Portuguese colonisers as enslaved people, palace guards, army chiefs, harem keepers, spiritual…

The Conversation

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Tribune News Service

Editorial: Tucker Carlson, Joe Biden and whale beachings

We aren’t whaleologists — actually, the term is cetologist; we just looked it up — but neither is Tucker Carlson. So take it with all the grains of salt in the ocean when the Fox News gasbag blames Joe Biden for an elevated rate of whale deaths off the Atlantic…

ABC News

Sea urchins are wreaking havoc on Tasmania's kelp forests. How can we stop this environmental disaster?

Long-spined sea urchins — the "single biggest threat" for reefs in eastern Tasmania — are arriving via an ocean current supercharged by climate change. So what can be done about it?

The Independent UK

Indian Ocean species caught between local, EU interests

Indian Ocean countries who want better safeguards for marine life by updating fishing quotas and restricting harmful catch methods are being resisted by the European Union who has interests in the region, conservation groups say

Los Angeles Times

How do you track an atmospheric river? Climb aboard this reconnaissance jet

OVER THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN — The interior of the plane looked like a cross between a private luxury jet and a space mission control room.

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The Independent UK

Airbnb's Joe Gebbia donates $25 million to The Ocean Cleanup

Entrepreneur Joe Gebbia donated $25 million to The Ocean Cleanup Thursday to support the nonprofit’s efforts to remove plastic from the world’s oceans and rivers

Reuters

Space power China to build ground stations on Antarctica to support satellites

China, only the third country to put a man in space after the Soviet Union and United States, is to build ground stations on Antarctica to back its network of ocean monitoring satellites, state media said on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

M&S joins calls for EU to restrict harmful tuna fishing methods in Indian Ocean

Retailer and green groups warn of ‘high environmental cost’ of fish aggregating devices to tuna stocks and other endangered marine life

Daily Mirror

Heartbreaking footage shows dolphins living in tiny pools METRES from ocean home

Beautiful white-sided dolphins and a 56-year-old lone orca can be seen swimming in circles, stuck in tiny pools at Miami Seaquarium in Florida, just metres from the ocean

Edinburgh Live

Remembering Beyoncé's last Edinburgh performance back in 2003 at Ocean Terminal

Beyoncé last visited the capital back in 2003 for the MTV Europe Music Awards along with celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake and Pink.

The Conversation

The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere – but first we need to build a 4D system to track what's going on down there

Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon…

Daily Record

Greenpeace activist from Girvan spearheads climate change protest on board massive Shell oil platform in the Atlantic Ocean

Climbing specialist and Greenpeace activist, Imogen Michel, led a team of four onto the giant oil platform on Tuesday - and they plan to stage their protest for as long as possible.

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