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Ocean Cleanup introduces technology that promises to clean up a third of the world's ocean trash in new TED Talk

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.
Yale Climate Connections

The controversy over deep-sea mining, explained

Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.

Mining the deep ocean

Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?
NPR

Trump administration considers a new way of extracting minerals in the Pacific Ocean

The Trump administration is considering a first-of-its kind mining project at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But deep-sea mining has raised major environmental questions. The Trump administration is ...
CNN

The ‘blob’ is back — except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The ...