Article Of The Week

Find an interesting new article each week from the curated list below:

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April 16, 2025

‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

John Todd remembers the moment he knew he was really on to something: “There was no question that it was at the Harwich dump in 1986…

Article Link

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/10/scientists-john-todd-eco-machines-pollution-technology-ships-oceans

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April 9, 2025

The world's strongest ocean current should be getting faster – instead, it is at risk of failing

Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It’s five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than the Amazon River…

 

Article Link

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250303-the-worlds-strongest-ocean-current-is-at-risk

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April 1, 2025

Turning the tide: ports as catalysts for climate action

Your morning coffee, the clothes you wear and the phone in your hand all have something in common: they travelled across land and sea..

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-and-climate/turning-the-tide-ports-as-catalysts-for-climate-action

 

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March 25, 2025

Warming seas driving extreme weather: Hurricane Helene one of deadliest in US history and comes after post-Beryl “dip”

Formed out of a tropical wave that left the coast of Africa on June 25th, Hurricane Beryl soon became the earliest category-five hurricane on record…

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-and-climate/warming-seas-driving-extreme-weather-hurricane-helene-one-of-deadliest-in-us

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March 18, 2025

The Quest to Quantify
how Ocean Pollution
Impacts Nature

“If you compare land to ocean—if you had the ratio of buoys from the ocean on land—Canada would have two weather stations,” says Sebastiaan Ambtman, chief executive of OceanSync, speaking from Halifax…

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-and-climate/data-is-the-bottleneck-in-better-ocean-prediction

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March 11, 2025

Taps running dry: ‘Desperate call’ for funding reform over SIDS water security

When you look at images of Kiribati, a nation of 32 atolls and one raised-coral island deep in Oceania, the turquoise waters around its causeway-connected capital stand out like a bright paradise…

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-and-climate/taps-running-dry-desperate-call-for-funding-reform-over-sids-water-security

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March 4, 2025

World’s Largest
Iceberg Runs
Aground

After months of drifting, the world’s largest iceberg has come to a halt near the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean. While a “Titanic II” scenario..

Article Link

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/climate/iceberg-antarctica-a23a.html

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February 24, 2025

The Quest to Quantify
how Ocean Pollution
Impacts Nature

A global movement encouraging businesses and financial institutions to consider their impacts on nature is gathering momentum, and the…

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february 17, 2025

Making the Invisible Visible

As the International Negotiating Committee (INC) works to create a global plastics treaty, it faces a challenge of unprecedented scale. Plastic pollution has infiltrated 

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February 10, 2025

The Secret
Lives of
Plankton

As many as 100 billion lifeforms – about the number of people who have ever lived on Earth – can be found in a liter of seawater. These microscopic organisms…

Article Link

https://woods.stanford.edu/news/secret-lives-plankton

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February 4, 2025

Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples

Microplastics contamination is widespread in seafood sampled in a recent study, adding to growing evidence of the dangerous substances’ ubiquity…

Article Link

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/seafood-microplastic-contamination-study?scrlybrkr=3ab79bb2

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January 28, 2025

The Ocean Can
Remember for 20 Years,
Study Says

Memory can be a flighty thing. The past can be recalled with rose-colored glasses, and many of our memories dim as we age—there’s a reason eyewitness testimony…

Article Link

https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc e/environment/a63084409/north-atlantic-ocean-memory/

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January 21, 2025

2024 was the
World’s warmest
year on record

It’s official: 2024 was the planet’s warmest year on record, according to an analysis by scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)…

Article Link

https://www.noaa.gov/news/2024-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record

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January 14, 2025

Slowing the Chemical tide: Safeguarding Human and Ocean Health amid Chemical Pollution

After tragedies like the thalidomide scandal and the Bhopal chemical disaster brought awareness to the links between…

Article Link

https://backtoblueinitiative.com/slowing-the-chemical-tide-safeguarding-human-and-ocean-health-amid-chemical-pollution/

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January 7, 2025

Now is the Time to
Protect Africa’s most
Biodiverse Ocean Region

The South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO)—the second-most biodiverse ocean region in the world and an area of great natural beauty—is at a crossroads…

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/sus  tainable-ocean-economy/now-is-the-time-to-protect-africas-most-biodiverse-ocean-region-from

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December 17, 2024

A Systematic Approach to the Decarbonization in the Maritime Industry

Shipping is among the most hard-to-abate sectors, emitting a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually while transporting 90% of global trade…

Article Link

https://backtoblueinitiative.com/a-symbiotic-approach-to-decarbonisation-in-the-maritime-industry/

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December 10, 2024

Restoring
an Island
Paradise

Grotesque scenes of overfishing and shark graveyards shocked Andrew and Marit Miners when they visited eastern Indonesia’s Coral Triangle…

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/biod iversity-ecosystems-and-  resources/restoring-an-island-paradise

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December 3, 2024

Seychelles’ Balancing Act: Transforming Fisheries to Preserve Biodiversity

Despite its modest landmass of just 457 square km, Seychelles’ ocean spans 1.37m square km—a territory equivalent to half the land area…

Article Link

https://impact.economist.com/ocean/bi

odiversity-ecosystems-and-resources/seychelles-balancing-act-transforming-fisheries-to-preserve-biodiversity

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November 17, 2024

New Discovery: Largest Coral in the World Found in the Solomon Islands

Visible from space, the mega coral is three times larger than the previous record-breaker, is believed to be about 300 years old, storing a record of ocean…

Article Link

https://news.nationalgeographic.org/new-discovery-largest-coral-in-the-world-found-in-the-solomon-islands/

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November 11, 2024

Sea sickness: the
pharmaceutical
pollution problem

Pharmaceutical drugs are becoming more ubiquitous as access to medicines improves worldwide and millions of tonnes are produced annually…

Article Link

https://backtoblueinitiative.com/sea-sickness-the-pharmaceutical-pollution-problem/

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November 4, 2024

Ocean literacy: The “enabling factor” for success in all ocean issues

UNESCO will host the first Ocean Literacy World Conference in Venice this week to promote a more harmonious relationship between humans & the ocean…