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Strip mining the deepest parts of the ocean
Our oceansArlette Diederiksdeep-sea mining, deep-sea floor, COVID-19, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Island, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, and Tonga, ISA, International Seabed Authority, Areas of Particular Environmental Interest, APEI, Tonga Offshore Mining Limited, Nauru Ocean Resources Inc, Marawa Research and Exploration, MiningWatch Canada, Deep Sea Mining Campaig, Deep Sea Mining Campaign, Pacific Ocean seabed, Pacific Ocean, Greenpeace, DeepGreen, DeepGreen Metals Inc, sediment plumes, pollution, Greg Stone, Catherine Coumans, Asia-Pacific, Vancouver, CCZ, save our oceans, deep-se, deep-sea, deep-see mining risks, deep-sea mining impacts
Sharks
Our oceansArlette Diederikssharks, shark finning, Oceana, apex predator, threats, climate change, overfishing, fihermen, bleed to death, healthy oceans, shark fin soup, Hong Kong, China, cartilage, shark cartilage, shark teeth, Traditional Chinese medicine, Spain, WWF, liver oil, shark leather, project hiu, shark trust, sea shepherd, Shawn heinrichs
The Great Amazon Reef
Our oceansArlette DiederiksGreat Amazon Reef, Amazon river, Brazil, Oil drilling, French Guyana, South America, Biodiversity, Marine snow, abyssal plains, PELAGIS, Olivier Van Canneyt, BP, Total, Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques, University of São Paulo, Bolsonaro, ANP, Greanpeace, rhodoliths, coralline algae, Algae, Sponges, corals, coral reef, Centre for Island Research and Environmental Observatory, CRIOBE, Serge Planes
Cigarette butts
Our oceansArlette DiederiksCigarette, cigarette butts, pollution, ocean pollution, six trillion, Imperial College London, Aldicarb, toxins, chemicals, WHO, World Health Organization, Stanford University, nicotine, arsenic, heavy metals, beach, Mervyn Witherspoon, Greenbutts, Xavier Van Osten, Tadas Lisauskas, American Cancer Society
Plastic Pollution
Our oceansArlette Diederiksplastic pollution, National Geographic, ocean plastics, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, garbage, Montreal Protocol, National Academy of Sciences, climate treaty, plastic straws, plastic bags
Factory farmed meat is killing our oceans
Our oceansArlette Diederiksmeat, meatless monday, livestock farming, coral reef, deforestation, blue baby syndrome, algal blooms, phosphates, nitrates, decreased dissolved oxygen, PETA, ocean dead zones, acid rain
Protect your skin and the reef
Our oceansArlette Diederikssunscreen, EWG, reef safe sunscreen, skin allergies, oxybenzone, avobenzone, octisalate, octocrylene, UVA, UVB, homosalate, octinoxate, mineral sunscreen, sun blocker, physical sunscreen, chemical reaction, zinc, titanium dioxide, nanoparticles, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FDA, Hawaii, Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, Craig Downs, symbiotic algae, Environmental Health Perspectives, retinol, retinyl palmitate, American Academy of Dermatology, cancer, methylisothiazolinone, methylchloroisothiazolinone, American Contact Dermatitis Society, allergen of the year, European Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety, spray-on
Why our oceans are vital for us
Our oceansArlette Diederiksoxygen, phytoplankton, algae, Photosynthesizers, plankton, Marine photosynthesizers, Archaean, Proterozoic Era, Great Oxidation Event, oceans, oxygen supply, plankton cooling
De-oxygenation of the oceans
Our oceansArlette DiederiksDe-oxygenation of the oceans, Oxygen minimum zones, OMZ´s, nitrous oxide, N2O, greenhouse gas, oceans, healthy oceans, climate consequences, loss of oxygen, Smithsonian Research Center, Denise Breitburg, oxygen-rich water, Eastern Tropical North Pacific OMZ, habitat, Karen Wishner, URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, zooplankton
