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A Giant Blob of Seaweed Is Heading to Florida - The New York Times
The mass, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, is drifting toward the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say seaweed is likely to come ashore by sum... (2023)
Shark Populations Are Crashing, With a ‘Very Small Window’ to Avert Disaster - The New York Times
Oceanic sharks and rays have declined more than 70 percent since 1970, mainly because of overfishing, according to a new study. (2021)
Rivers could generate thousands of nuclear power plants worth of energy, thanks to a new ‘blue’ membrane
Boron nitride nanotube membrane creates power by controlling the flow of electrically charged ions in water Green energy advocates may soon be t... (2019)
Opinion | Miami Battles Rising Seas - The New York Times
In 2017, voters agreed to finance adaptation efforts through property taxes. Now the first phase of those projects is underway. (2019)
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds - 2019- The New York Times
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a findi... (2019)
‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen It’: Lean Stone Crab Season Follows Red Tide in Florida - The New York Times
A prolonged red tide in Southwest Florida has hurt the iconic stone crab — and the fishermen, whose family businesses go back generations, who catc... (2018)
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First || Bloomberg
The city has another serious water problem. (2018)
Ice melt from West Antarctica will hit the U.S. especially hard - Axios
Gravity is a vital consideration to make when forecasting sea level rise (2018)
LIFE BELOW WATER: WHY IT MATTERS (pdf)
What’s the goal here? To conserve and sustainably use the world’s oceans, seas and marine resources. Why? Oceans provide key natural resources... (2018)
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet (2018)
This Engineer Is Building an Armada of Saildrones That Could Remake Weather Forecasting - Bloomberg
Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: ... (2018)
The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail | FAST COMPANY
Boyan Slat dropped out of school to work on his design for a device that could collect the trillions of pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. Af... (2018)
Sing a song of sonar - Listening underwater - The Economist
Technology is transforming the relationship between people and the oceans, says Hal Hodson " IN THE summer of 1942, as America’s Pacific fleet w... (2018)
MEET THE COUPLE KEEPING MIAMI’S BEACHES CLEAN - The Miami Foundation
An avid kayaker, Dave Doebler was out paddling in Biscayne Bay one day when he saw trash floating in the water. He instinctively picked it up to to... (2018)
Kind Designs raises $5M to scale its 3D-printed Living Seawalls - Refresh Miami
In a quiet corner of Miami, robots have been humming away, printing pieces of what could be the future of coastal infrastructure. And what they’re ... (2025)
‘It’s mind-boggling’: the hidden cost of our obsession with fish oil pills | Fish oil | The Guardian
The market in this prized commodity is worth billions – but are the supposed benefits worth the cost to global ecosystems? Aquaculture is an expan... (2022)
What’s driving the huge blooms of brown seaweed piling up on Florida and Caribbean beaches? | FIU News
Stephen P. Leatherman, FIU professor of coastal science wrote this piece, republished from The Conversation. (2023)
Where Have All the Snow Crabs Gone? - Nautilus
Eleven billion crabs vanished. Is climate change really to blame? (2022)
Fish and Overfishing - Our World in Data
How are fish stocks changing across the world? How much is overfished? (2021)
Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science | MIT Technology Review
Sinking seaweed could sequester a lot of carbon, but researchers are still grappling with basic questions about reliability, scalability and risks. (2021)
Peru ponders: whose fish are they anyway? | The Economist
A bid to protect part of the Pacific raises legal conundrums | The Americas (2021)
In praise of America’s founding fish | The Economist
The Potomac river is a more vivid symbol of American history than any of the monuments along it | United States (2021)
The science and technology that can help save the ocean | MIT Technology Review
Here on Earth, we have more detailed maps of Mars than of our own ocean, and that’s a problem. A massive force for surviving climate change, the oc... (2021)
Not to Ruin the Super Bowl, but the Sea Is Consuming Miami | WIRED
Huzzah for tailgates and overeating stadium food. Boo the fact that climate change is an existential threat to Miami. (2021)
A new art-ificial coral reef will be installed just off Miami Beach. Emphasis on art - Miami Herald
That’s the concept behind The ReefLine, described by its patrons as “a seven-mile underwater public sculpture park, snorkel trail and artificial re... (2020)
Monsters of the deep - Illicit fishing devastates the seas and abuses crews
Here’s how to hook the culprits (2020)
MIT develops a battery-free method for navigating underwater that could transform ocean exploration
MIT has developed a new navigation system designed for use underwater that could do for underwater wayfinding what GPS has done for travel on and a... (2020)
Miami-Dade wants mangroves and islands as storm protection instead of 10-foot walls
Miami-Dade wants mangroves and islands as storm protection instead of 10-foot walls (2020)
Research shows less pollution in Key Biscayne beach after shutdown - miami.edu
Levels of bacteria dropped only days after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of recreational waters, leading University of Miami investigato... (2020)
Wait, So How Much of the Ocean Is Actually Fished?
One prominent study said 55 percent, its critics say 4 percent, and they both used the same data. (2018)
Octopus vs Underwater Maze
I, for one, welcome our Octopus overlords. Ask for the CrunchLabs Build Box for Christmas and then let’s build some cool stuff together. Get the Ho... (2023)
Oceans and Global Warming: Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Really Shutting Down?
Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Really Shutting Down? (2023)
The $7BN Megaproject to Save Venice
The $7BN Megaproject to Save Venice Planning to build a flood defence system for your city? You'd better watch this. (2023)
Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory
Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory (2021)
Why Venice Floods Every Year
Insider 5.63M subscribers Every year Venice, Italy, experiences seasonal flooding, which is known as acqua alta. The video dives into why Veni... (2020)
Sargassum explained by George Buckley, Harvard University Extinction School
Here are the causes of Sargassum bloom and what we need to do. What we are looki... Lockerbie College Published on Mar 24, 2019 Bonaire Vision... (2019)
PBS - Episode 902: Toxic Algae: Complex Sources and Solutions
For the past two decades, the residents of Martin county and the surrounding areas have been faced with a silent curse. A guacamole thick mat of bl... (2019)
Ocean: A 360-degree tour of the mysterious, magical corals of Palau | The Economist
Palau's vibrant corals are thriving, despite some of the warmest and most acidic waters in the world. In this virtual reality experience, Lukas Isa... (2018)
Exploring and protecting the Antarctic | The Economist
The Antarctic is one of the least explored places on the planet. For the first time ever a marine biologist has ventured to unexplored parts of the... (2018)
The problems with rebuilding beaches - Vox
Beach nourishment is the latest chapter in a never-ending tale of erosion. About 80 to 90 percent of sandy bea... (2018)
Sea level rise is so much more than melting ice - The Verge
While researching climate change, we heard something confusing: the sea level in New York City is rising about one and a half times faster than the... (2018)
The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
The New Tropic - A not-so-sweet history of Florida's algae crisis | Facebook
Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (2018)
Sea Turtle Medicine - a16z Andreessen Horowitz
Sea turtles occupy a very special biological niche in our world. And we still know relatively little about these creatures, one of the very few mar... (2021)
NASA Scientist Says Wind, Flooding And Rainfall Increase The Intensity Of A Hurricane | WLRN
Thousands of scientists are working on research related to climate change and extreme weather. Dr. Tim Hall is one of them. Dr. Hall is a Senior Re... (2018)
Changing Seas TV - PBS
Now in its 10th Season, Changing Seas is a public television series produced by WPBT2 South Florida PBS in Miami, Florida. Since 2009, the series h... (2019)