"Seagrass meadows have been in decline around Sydney Harbour for decades, with moorings from boats among the biggest threats."

"Posidonia australis is a slow-growing plant native to the southern Australian coastline but is endangered in all six estuaries across New South Wales.The seagrass, which provides a safe and critical habitat for many juvenile fish, improves water quality, stabilises sediments and acts as a carbon sink by capturing and storing carbon dioxide, is struggling for survival."

"Purpose-built moorings are designed to remain buoyant, removing the need for traditional heavy chains dragging along the seabed, disturbing the seagrass marine ecology."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-13/science-key-to-saving-endangered-seagrass-population/106337120

Image: Parking fossil fuel vessels on Sydney's Pittwater

#waterbodies #boats #FossilFuel #vessels #parking #moorings #destruction #pollution #MarinEcology #seagrass #biodiversity #NSW #MarineEcology

On deep sea mining and transnational boundaries "...this arrangement nationalises the benefits of extraction while socializing ecological risk. Profits are harvested by Norwegian corporations, while potential extractive risks are born by the global population." https://www.articasvalbard.no/artica-writings-2025/unruly-bodies-of-water

#deepseamining #waterbodies #rightsofnature #arctic #arctica #deepsea

#Berlin not only boasts numerous lakes but also #waterways, both artificial and natural, all of which are sites of considerable #aquatic #biodiversity. My photos show the #BerlinSpandau #ShipCanal near the #Westhafen (a #harbor). C. C. Voigt et al. (2019) demonstrated the importance these waterways for terrestrial animals as well, namely e.g. #bats, which use #waterbodies and vegetated areas to bypass #artificiallight routes
©#StefanFWirth 2025

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The Register: Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges. “Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/11/the-register-move-over-bit-barns-here-come-japans-floating-bit-barges/

WWF: The most comprehensive mapping to date of the world’s wetlands. “Now a new study aims to deliver the most accurate mapping of global wetland types to date. The revised Global Lakes and Wetlands Database provides information on the locations and extent of 33 separate wetland types.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/wwf-the-most-comprehensive-mapping-to-date-of-the-worlds-wetlands/

The Wire (India): Creating a People’s Biography of Rivers: Northeast’s Own Digital Archive. “[The River Project] is an interactive multimedia archive that is accessible both offline and online. It is a collaborative initiative where film-makers, artists, pastoralists, farmers, and fisherfolk have all come together to create a multilingual record of stories using film, aural accounts, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/creating-a-peoples-biography-of-rivers-northeasts-own-digital-archive-the-wire/