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How Oysters Filter and Clean Seawater

How Oysters Filter and Clean Seawater

An oyster looks like one of the least impressive animals in the sea: a lumpy shell cemented to a rock or a piling, sitting motionless for its entire life. Yet each one is a tireless, living water-treatment plant, and a r…

Mon Jun 29 20264 min
How Plastic Breaks Down in the Ocean: The 7 Stages Explained

How Plastic Breaks Down in the Ocean: The 7 Stages Explained

Most of us picture "breaking down" as disappearing. A banana peel rots, a paper bag pulps apart, and within weeks nature has reclaimed them. Plastic doesn't play by those rules. When a bottle or a fishing net ends up in…

Thu Jun 25 202610 min
How the Ocean Regulates the Climate

How the Ocean Regulates the Climate

When people picture what controls Earth's climate, they tend to look up, at the atmosphere, the greenhouse gases, the weather. But the more powerful regulator lies below. The ocean is the planet's climate engine and its…

Thu Jun 18 20264 min
Greenpeace Challenges Dutch Government Over Allseas Deep-Sea Mining Contract as Legal Opinion Cites UNCLOS Violations

Greenpeace Challenges Dutch Government Over Allseas Deep-Sea Mining Contract as Legal Opinion Cites UNCLOS Violations

Greenpeace Netherlands has commissioned a legal opinion from Professor André Nollkaemper of the University of Amsterdam concluding that plans by Swiss-Dutch offshore giant Allseas to operate deep-sea mining machinery for…

Thu Jun 18 20264 min
How Coral Reefs Are Built

How Coral Reefs Are Built

Coral reefs are often called the rainforests of the sea, and the comparison is earned: they are among the most crowded, colorful, and productive places in the entire ocean. What surprises most people is who builds them.…

Tue Jun 16 20264 min
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