Mastodawn

#EarthSystem: "The culmination of five years of work by 600 international #scientists, the 1,352-page tome details the growing toll of #climate change, #pollution and #overfishing in our #oceans, which cover more than 70% of the planet." https://phys.org/news/2026-06-deepening-crisis-oceans-urges-action.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

UN warns of 'deepening crisis' in oceans, urges action

Oceans are in a "deepening crisis" that demands urgent global action, a major U.N. report warned Monday, with seas warming and rising faster, ice cover shrinking, and marine ecosystems under mounting strain.

Phys.org

Kach Kéis 5d ago

Und Während in der Schelde der nächste Wal strandet, feiert Middlekerke das traditionelle Shrimp fishing Festival. #overfishing #umweltschutz #savetheplanet #govegan

The Wild May 30

Whales and supertrawlers are both after the same krill in the Southern Ocean. https://e360.yale.edu/features/antarctica-krill-whales #overfishing

https://e360.yale.edu/features/antarctica-krill-whales

Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On

In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, whales and other marine mammals rely on krill to survive. But as the market for human dietary supplements and animal feeds booms, and climate change reduces krill populations, scientists worry there may not be enough to go around.

Yale E360

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 25

Got pesky, #invasive #corals? Blast ‘em away with air guns
While corals around the world are dying in vast numbers due to #oceanacidification, #climatechange, #overfishing and disease, invasive counterparts such as #suncorals are taking over biodiversity hotspots. Blasts of compressed air can probably rid ecosystems of these rapidly spreading intruders and prevent them from reestablishing.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/invasive-sun-corals-compressed-air-guns
https://archive.ph/dPxZJ

Got pesky, invasive corals? Blast ‘em away with air guns

Compressed air bids bye-bye to invasive sun corals in Brazil. The blasts obliterated soft tissue and fragments couldn't regenerate.

Science News

RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️May 21

Our taste for #seafood brings many #environmental problems. #Overfishing affects #marineecosystems. Scientists at @[email protected] are developing a circular fish farm where excess heat from Umeå’s #powerplant heats the fish farm, reducing its heating emissions

“A Self-Sustainable System”: H...

“A Self-Sustainable System”: How Power Plants Can Heat Circular Fish Farms

Scientists in Sweden pilot a fish farm heated by a local power plant, where different fish species cohabit and utilise each other's waste.

Digital for Good | RESET.ORG

BellingenNSW Apr 28

From Gold Rush to Green Rush
The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation

* "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."

“The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”

Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/100/1/140/407075/Settler-Cannabis-From-Gold-Rush-to-Green-Rush-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext

* Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."

"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9780295751573/html

#cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Country idyll with river

CBC Technology Science Apr 22

Vancouver Island's low snowpack likely to affect salmon populations: researchers
Researchers say that low snowpack levels on Vancouver Island are likely to stress salmon populations that are already dealing with the impacts of habitat degradation, overfishing and hotter waters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-island-snowpack-low-9.7172637?cmp=rss