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Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-05 13:45:58

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we could repurpose some of that waste to remove planet-warming emissions from the atmosphere? A team of researchers in Denmark has discovered a way to do just that. In a new study, published September 5 in the journal Science Advances, they transformed decomposed #1 plastic—also known as PET (polyethy

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Eels are fish

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 21:02:18

Let’s dive right in: for most of history, we didn’t really know where eels come from. Which is strange, because they’re everywhere—rivers, lakes, oceans. Even now, we only have the faintest sense of where they spawn or how. Their lives remain partly hidden, and that blank space has always invited stories. Aristotle thought they slithered out of mud, giving the primordial ooze its first big break. Another tale claimed they rose from sea foam, like a grotesque remix of Aphrodite’s birth. Japa

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Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-12 05:10:32

Since 2011, a monstrous structure has taken shape in the Atlantic Ocean almost every year, sprawling from the West African coast to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt—a gargantuan bloom of a brown free-floating seaweed. In May, the seaweed belt hit a record biomass of 37.5 million tons. In a study published last month in the journal Harmful Algae, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute outline the rapidly growing seawee

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The World’s Biggest Iceberg Is Finally Crumbling

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-12 09:20:39

Just months ago, the world’s largest iceberg weighed about a trillion tons and covered an area nearly the size of Anchorage, Alaska. Now it’s less than half that—and rapidly disappearing. In recent weeks, massive chunks of ice measuring up to 250 square miles (400 square kilometers) have sloughed off the “megaberg” known as A23a. Smaller pieces float freely in the surrounding waters too, many of them still big enough to threaten ships. The iceberg’s disintegration has reduced its total area to

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Today, I learned that eels are fish

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 13:02:18

Let’s dive right in: for most of history, we didn’t really know where eels come from. Which is strange, because they’re everywhere—rivers, lakes, oceans. Even now, we only have the faintest sense of where they spawn or how. Their lives remain partly hidden, and that blank space has always invited stories. Aristotle thought they slithered out of mud, giving the primordial ooze its first big break. Another tale claimed they rose from sea foam, like a grotesque remix of Aphrodite’s birth. Japa

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As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-17 12:00:37

Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They're older than the first trees, the North Star, and even the rings of Saturn. They've seen and been through it all — but the mounting effects of human driven climate change could be what finally proves too much for these ancient beings. As we continue to pump astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, nearly a third of it gets absorbed by the ocean, gradually making its water more acidic. For sharks, the cons

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The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timeline

techcrunch.com Henry Pickavet 2025-10-17 14:34:12

Henrik Fisker once envisioned a burgeoning EV empire at the startup he named after himself, which was to be led by the Ocean SUV. But cracks started showing in that vision almost as soon as the Ocean hit the road in 2023. Fisker cut production targets multiple times, failed to meet sales goals and laid off staff. What’s more, its Ocean SUV was beset with software and mechanical issues, rendering it inoperable for some. Add troublesome brakes, sudden power loss and doors that wouldn’t open to th

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Frontier buys $31M worth of antacids for the ocean

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-26 08:00:00

Frontier, the carbon removal clearinghouse founded by Google, Strip, Shopify, and others, announced today that it is buying 115,208 metric tons of carbon removal credits from geoengineering startup Planetary in a deal worth $31.2 million. Where most Frontier deals to date have bought carbon from startups specializing in direct air capture, enhanced weathering, or bioenergy with carbon capture, the organization’s agreement with Planetary is its first to do so by enhancing ocean alkalinity. The

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Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-28 20:15:26

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that's rich in the mineral form of calcium carbonate, and teeming with coccolithophores, tiny marine organisms that grow reflective calcite shells out of the mineral. The patch itself, however, has been considered far too frigid to support these tiny plankton, causing a longstand

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Two Years After Oceangate, Another Billionaire Hears the Siren Call of the Titanic

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-06 04:15:28

Two years ago, a guy named Stockton Rush was killed while piloting his “experimental” submarine towards the site of the Titanic. On board the “Titan” were four other unfortunate victims, including Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood (described as a billionaire) and his teenage son. Rush’s company, Oceangate, had made its money by courting wealthy clients and taking them on trips to the undersea site, but that all ended with an unfortunate implosion. Now, yet another billionaire has reportedly

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Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down by Furious Jellyfish

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-17 06:41:49

Since its inception, nuclear energy has faced a host of opposition, from oil conglomerates to well-intentioned anti-nuclear-weapons activists to environmental groups. As it turns out, even ocean critters are getting in on the movement. Over the weekend, a swarm of angry jellyfish forced the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station in France — one of Europe's largest — to take four of its six reactors offline. As reported by the New York Times, the "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" was f

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Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks, and invites to Gmail users

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-22 11:46:50

A new personal productivity app called Ocean is launching to help you triage your overloaded inbox, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks, and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one app. Today, Gmail so heavily dominates the email market that few challengers emerge. Understanding this, Ocean made the decision to work with Gmail, not compete against it. As a third-party client, gaining a footing in the market can be difficult, but successful email apps have

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Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-22 17:46:50

A new personal productivity app called Ocean is launching to help you triage your overloaded inbox, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks, and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one app. Today, Gmail so heavily dominates the email market that few challengers emerge. Understanding this, Ocean made the decision to work with Gmail, not compete against it. As a third-party client, gaining a footing in the market can be difficult, but successful email apps have

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Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 08:28:36

Later this summer, a fluorescent reddish-pink spiral will bloom across the Wilkinson Basin in the Gulf of Maine, about 40 miles northeast of Cape Cod. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will release the nontoxic water tracer dye behind their research vessel, where it will unfurl into a half-mile wide temporary plume, bright enough to catch the attention of passing boats and even satellites. As it spreads, the researchers will track its movement to monitor a tightly control

Topics: carbon change climate marine ocean

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Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-01 23:29:05

In a 300-plus page final report released today, the US Coast Guard analyzed the 2023 Titan sub implosion from every conceivable angle and came to a clear conclusion: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was a dangerous and deeply unpleasant boss. His company used "intimidation tactics" to sidestep regulatory scrutiny, it was a "toxic" workplace, and its safety culture was "critically flawed." The Titan itself was "undocumented, unregistered, non-certificated, [and] unclassed." As for Rush, he managed to

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Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-05 12:20:39

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Valve founder Gabe Newell is setting out on a new adventure — and it doesn’t involve Half-Life 3. Instead, Newell is acquiring Oceanco, the yacht-building company that’s creating his $400 million super ship, as reported earlier by Boat International. In a post

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 02:27:38

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales. As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species. However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past

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The Pacific Dodged a Monster Tsunami After One of the Biggest Quakes Ever. Here’s Why

gizmodo.com Alan Dykes 2025-12-09 08:55:52

The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on July 30, 2025, generated tsunami waves that have reached Hawaii and coastal areas of the U.S. mainland. The earthquake’s magnitude of 8.8 is significant, potentially making it one of the largest quakes ever recorded. Countries around much of the Pacific, including in East Asia and North and South America, issued alerts and, in some cases, evacuation orders in anticipation of potentially devastating waves. Waves of up to

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You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-31 03:55:20

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account for all the plastic ever produced. A new study has just tracked down a large portion of it. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University claim to be the first to provide a real estimate of ocean-polluting nanoplastics. Their research indicates that

Topics: nanoplastics ocean oceans plastic pollution

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EcoFlow Introduces New Home Battery to Aid in Disaster Preparedness

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 15:00:00

Extreme weather is only becoming more common, and some states are more vulnerable to natural disasters than others. Whether it's a risk of floods, hurricanes, wildfires or blackouts, homeowners in states like California, Texas and Florida are more prone to power outages. A whole-home battery backup can be a good solution to this problem, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, wh

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Move over, Tesla Powerwall: EcoFlow's new home backup system claims to reduce energy bills by up to 90%

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-07 08:19:25

EcoFlow EcoFlow recently announced the launch of a new Ocean Pro whole-home energy backup solution, the company's first permanent energy storage solution in the US. The full system lets you use EcoFlow or third-party solar panels with a smart home panel, an Ocean Pro inverter, and an Ocean Pro battery. Instead of comprising a portable inverter and battery like the Delta Pro Ultra, the Ocean Pro is EcoFlow's permanent installation system designed to compete directly with the Tesla Powerwall. A

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Move Over, Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Says This New Battery Is Better for Disaster-Prone Areas

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 03:00:00

Between floods, hurricanes, and brownouts, being a homeowner in states like California, Texas and Florida can make it challenging to keep the lights on. A whole-home battery backup is usually a good solution, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, which the company says is the first "full integrated, multi-source home energy system in the US." What that means in simpler terms,

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Move Over Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Says This New Battery Is Better for Disaster-Prone Areas

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 15:00:00

Between floods, hurricanes, and brownouts, being a homeowner in states like California, Texas and Florida can make it challenging to keep the lights on. A whole-home battery backup is usually a good solution, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, which the company says is the first “full integrated, multi-source home energy system in the US.” What that means in simpler terms,

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Move Over Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Claims This New Battery is Better for Disaster Prone Areas

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 03:00:00

Between floods, hurricanes, and brownouts, being a homeowner in states like California, Texas and Florida can make it challenging to keep the lights on. A whole-home battery backup is usually a good solution, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, which the company says is the first “full integrated, multi-source home energy system in the US.” What that means in simpler terms,

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We have a surprising underwater ally in combatting climate change: zooplankton

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-26 12:06:14

Odds are you aren't too familiar with the group of animals called zooplankton, which include copepods, krill and salps. On land, they're most commonly used as fish food. Underwater, however, they've been quietly making a substantial contribution to slowing global warming. The BBC reported on the latest research into zooplankton by an international team, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography , that detailed just how much these tiny critters have been impacting the planet's temperatu

Topics: carbon krill ocean warming zooplankton

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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-02 11:52:03

Satellite data processing algorithms developed by ICM-CSIC have played a crucial role in detecting this significant shift in the Southern Hemisphere, which could accelerate the effects of climate change. Thanks to data obtained from Earth observation satellites, an international team of scientists has detected an unprecedented phenomenon for the first time: a reversal in the ocean circulation of the Southern Ocean. The study, led by the National Oceanographic Center (NOC, United Kingdom), was r

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Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-26 21:30:33

As global temperatures soar and emissions remain higher than ever, scientists are exploring the dramatic, planet-wide interventions we could take to stave off the climate crisis. One of the most intriguing possibilities involves using the ocean, already the world's largest carbon sink, to suck up even more of the greenhouse gas by removing some of the carbon that it already stores. Dozens of startups are already experimenting with this form of climate intervention, which is sometimes referred

Topics: carbon climate marine ocean oxygen

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The New Titan Submersible Doc Hits Netflix's Top 10, but There's Another Titan Doc You Should See

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-03 16:00:05

Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. This week, Netflix's Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster was the no. 2 film on Netflix's Top 10, but the documentary about the deadly 2023 Titan submersible implosion isn't the only film about the catastrophic undersea tragedy. Another, Max's Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, came out in May. Both reveal the lengths that explorer and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush went to in order

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David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'

news.ycombinator.com David Attenborough 2026-03-12 00:21:28

My earliest memory of the ocean is of a tropical lagoon. Ammonites rose and fell in the warm water column, occasionally propelling themselves forwards, their curled ram’s horn shells surprisingly streamlined in the water. This tropical lagoon was in fact in my imagination, fired as I explored the old limestone quarry near my childhood home in Leicester, some 60 miles from the coast. For a small boy in the 1930s this was a marvellous place for adventures, and the knowledge that millions of year

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The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

wired.com Robin Andrews 2026-03-11 19:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into space from all over Io’s surface. “They looked amazingly beautiful,” said Bolton, who is now based a

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Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

Eels are fish

Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean

The World’s Biggest Iceberg Is Finally Crumbling

Today, I learned that eels are fish

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timeline

Frontier buys $31M worth of antacids for the ocean

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

Two Years After Oceangate, Another Billionaire Hears the Siren Call of the Titanic

Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down by Furious Jellyfish

Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks, and invites to Gmail users

Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users

Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean

Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”

Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

The Pacific Dodged a Monster Tsunami After One of the Biggest Quakes Ever. Here’s Why

You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic

EcoFlow Introduces New Home Battery to Aid in Disaster Preparedness

Move over, Tesla Powerwall: EcoFlow's new home backup system claims to reduce energy bills by up to 90%

Move Over, Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Says This New Battery Is Better for Disaster-Prone Areas

Move Over Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Says This New Battery Is Better for Disaster-Prone Areas

Move Over Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Claims This New Battery is Better for Disaster Prone Areas

We have a surprising underwater ally in combatting climate change: zooplankton

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

The New Titan Submersible Doc Hits Netflix's Top 10, but There's Another Titan Doc You Should See

David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'

The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

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