Natural nutrient enrichment caused today’s largest ocean “dead zone” 8 million years ago
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/969725
An international team looked back 12 million years for clues about the formation of natural and human-forced dead zones
How Australia is seeing a ‘big shift’ on plastic waste
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63451666
A range of single-use plastic, including straws, cutlery and microbeads in shampoo, will be banned in its most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), in a bid to reduce waste.
New Zealand convicts company of illegal trawling n high seas restricted area
In late August, a court in Aotearoa New Zealand convicted a subsidiary of one of the country’s major seafood companies of illegal trawling in a closed area in the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia.
Search for electric-car battery minerals hits bottom of the ocean
https://www.drive.com.au/news/demand-for-electric-car-batteries-forces-mining-to-ocean-floor/
Demand for precious minerals used in electric-car battery packs is forcing the mining sector to search the bottom of the ocean.
Wind energy is officially coming to the Gulf of Mexico
https://electrek.co/2022/10/31/wind-energy-gulf-of-mexico/
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it has finalized two Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico that will have the potential to produce enough clean energy to power nearly 3 million homes.
