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UK Launches Next Clean Maritime Competition with $37M in Funding
The UK government has begun the sixth round of its Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition promising to provide a total...
Read More >>Ukraine Claims Russia is Coercing "Volunteers" Into Spill Cleanup Effort
The Ukrainian government claims that Russian authorities are drafting students in occupied areas to join the cleanup eff...
Read More >>NOAA Withdraws Proposed Speed Rule for East Coast Whale Protection
After two years of review, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has decided to drop a proposed spe...
Read More >>Startup Evolves Ocean Fertilization for Commercial Carbon Credits
Ocean fertilization has the potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at low cost and vast scale, simply by...
Read More >>Faced With Public Pressure, Russia Steps Up Kerch Strait Cleanup
One month after two aging coastal tankers broke up near the Kerch Strait, their cargoes of heavy fuel oil continue to contaminate...
Read More >>Marine Science Nonprofit Elects "The Ocean" to Join its Board
[By Anna Turns] The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the atmosphere’s excess heat trapped by human-emit...
Read More >>Samskip and Value Maritime Win Funding for Compact Carbon-Capture System
Value Maritime has secured funding from the Dutch government to install a new version of its carbon-capture technology a...
Read More >>2024's Extreme Ocean Heat Broke Records Again, Leaving Two Mysteries
[By Prof. Annalisa Bracco] The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever...
Read More >>Op-Ed: U.S. Tariffs Won't Slow Down China's Clean-Energy Sector
[By Lauri Myllyvirta and Hubert Thieriot] Clean energy technology, particularly the “new three” of solar...
Read More >>Due to COVID Disruption, Invasive Sea Lampreys Rebound in Great Lakes
Fisheries officials in the Great Lakes have found a new and unusual aftereffect of the COVID-19 pandemic: a resurgence i...
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