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Humanity depends on the ocean — Here is what we need to prioritize for immediate ocean science research

Environmental News Bits

by Brad deYoung, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Kristen St John, James Madison University ; Mona Behl, University of Georgia; Peter Girguis, Harvard University; Richard W Murray, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Stephen Palumbi, Stanford University Listen to the story: [link] Humankind is inextricably dependent on the ocean.

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Proposed House Bill Would Weaken Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangering Whales, Dolphins and More

Scientific American

waters could be upended by amendments proposed on July 22 during a legislative hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries. waters has gone extinct, even as use of the ocean has increased. Since its passing, not a single marine mammal species in U.S.

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Be Part Of Keep PA Beautiful’s International Coastal Cleanups In November, Free Cleanup Supplies Available

PA Environment Daily

Groups and individuals are cleaning up their favorite shared public spaces through Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania Program , supporting the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. The International Cleanup is an initiative to keep trash from reaching our waterways and oceans.

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Regulation of Seaweed Cultivation and Sinking for Carbon Dioxide Removal in Alaska: New Sabin Center Report

Law Columbia

Alaska is thought to be an idea place for seaweed CDR projects, in part because local ocean conditions are well suited to growing seaweed, and also because the state has established processes for permitting seaweed farms. Seaweed naturally converts dissolved carbon dioxide in ocean water into organic carbon through photosynthesis.

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Environmental Defense Fund To Receive Dickinson College Rose-Walters Prize For Environmental Activism

PA Environment Daily

It works for progress on methane pollution, clean electricity, clean transportation, forests, fisheries and oceans, healthy communities, fuels and feedstocks, agriculture, water, food, carbon markets and other critical environmental challenges. McKean County [PaEN] [Posted: May 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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$402,021 Awarded By DEP To Support Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone Projects

PA Environment Daily

Delaware County -- Delaware County Planning Department – $23,500 to develop a vision plan for Delaware County’s waterfront which will include commerce, recreation, preserving natural resources and enabling municipalities with industrial zoning to pivot and utilize area for new opportunities.

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Thunder Bay is Bringing its Great Lake Shoreline Back

Circle of Blue

Those are daunting statistics for a body of water that looks, even fleetingly, more like ocean than lake a graveyard of shipwrecks as vast as Austria. This story is part of a Great Lakes News Collaborative series on the relationship between the regions economy and its most abundant natural resource: Water.