Tag: oceans
Plastic bottles, fishing nets … Les Poulettes Fitness is launching a collection made with waste collected from the oceans
They wondered how they could “go further”. Work in their own way to preserve the already severely tested planet. Roxane Sutet and Amélie Rivoire, who founded in 2017 the Lyon…
Tuvalu minister films himself with his feet in the water to warn of rising oceans
There were particularly striking speeches during this COP26. After that of the young Kenyan Elizabeth Wathuti last week who had begged the leaders of the whole world to open their…
Marine biology: whales are eating the oceans empty – and that’s a good thing – knowledge
The blue whale is a giant of the oceans. It’s the length of a first-generation Boeing 737, a heart the size of a small car and a tongue the weight…
Overfishing: The Baltic Sea should recover in ten years – knowledge
The Baltic Sea is expected to recover soon, and the World Conservation Conference wants to do everything better in the coming decade. Whether it will work this time is questionable.…
Climate change: what will happen to the reefs?
Climate change is affecting corals, and many will not survive it. But what comes after that? An experiment suggests that surprising organisms could take over the bare structures – with…
Sea otters preserve the balance of the oceans and limit global warming
They are stars on the Internet but also do a lot for the planet. In addition to being cute, sea otters help ecosystems capture carbon from the atmosphere and store…
Travel books: three unusual trips to the sea – travel
Land in sight We live, says Alastair Bonnett, in a paradoxical time. On the one hand, climate change is accelerating the sinking of a number of islands or their disintegration…
Fish death in Spain shows the low priority of marine conservation – knowledge
The largest salt water lagoon in Europe, the Mar Menor in southern Spain, is something very special. Squids live there, flamingos, seahorses and many animals and plants that are not…
Climate change: New climate in the world’s oceans puts species to the test – knowledge
By the end of this century, large parts of the oceans could have climatic conditions that many species can no longer tolerate, researchers warn. The consequences would be dramatic. from…
Raw materials: precious lumps in the depths
At the bottom of the Pacific are manganese nodules that contain valuable metals and rare earths. Companies want to get to the raw materials with deep-sea mining. That could endanger…