Ocean Conservation News – 09/30/2022

Paramount consumer products and Nickelodeon announces launch of global conservation and sustainability initiative

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paramount-consumer-products-nickelodeon-announce-150000804.html

Through partnerships with several non-profit organizations, SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Sea Change aims to help remove and divert five million pounds of ocean plastic over the next four years by funding cleanup projects.

MSA reauthorization passes initial vote in US House

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/msa-reauthorization-passes-committee

The U.S. The House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife has passed H.R. 4690, the Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act.

Underwater heat “Inferno” ravages Mediterranean Corals

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1671933/underwater-heat-inferno-ravages-mediterranean-corals

In the temperate shallows of the Mediterranean, once-vibrant red and purple coral forests that provide a crucial haven for biodiversity now stand bleached and brittle, transformed into skeletons by record summer temperatures, scientists say.

Deep sea mining: green tech enabler or environmental catastrophe?

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/09/29/deep-sea-mining-green-tech-enabler-or-environmental-catastrophe

The seafloor has reserves of minerals in sea mounds and nodules that proponents say are necessary to make the batteries and electronics.

Research could get help island’s waters international status for whales

https://www.royalgazette.com/environment/news/article/20220929/research-could-help-get-islands-waters-international-status-for-whales/

“Groundbreaking” research has shed fresh light on the migrating humpback whales that could help to bring international status to Bermuda’s waters.

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