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Big Blue Cruise at SF Climate Week 2025
Blue Cruise at SF Climate Week 2025As cited in E&E News, a proposal from the White House Office of Management and Budget seeks to drastically reorganize NOAA and plunder most of its climate research programs in fiscal 2026, with a possible budget reduction of 38...
Positives for mCDR in the Ocean Environment
mCDR focuses on enhancing the ocean’s natural ability to store harmful carbon dioxide. Research suggests that marine carbon dioxide removal can be ‘permanent’ (in that carbon dioxide removed does not return to the atmosphere for centuries…
Emerging U.S. Seaweed Sector: Does San Francisco Bay Area Have a Role?
Seaweed has been cultivated and used as a food stock for centuries, but a new cadre of climate-focused start-ups are using seaweed as a more environmental-friendly replacement to traditional materials.
The Ocean Cleanup to Clear Great Pacific Garbage Patch—$7.5 Billion in 10 Years or $4 Billion in 5 Years
Clean The Great Pacific Garbage Patch—$7.5 Billion in 10 Years or $4 Billion in 5 YearsThe Ocean Cleanup states that it can make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) go away within five years to the tune of $4 billion. During a brief stop-over in San Francisco late...
Ocean Voyages Institute Plastic Cleanup
A Better Way for 1 Ocean Clean Up: Mary Crowley of Ocean Voyages InstituteOcean Voyages Institute (OVI) is able to achieve a high rate of ROI for ocean plastic removal per expedition. In 2020, a small crew extracted 340,000 pounds (170 tons) of plastic from the...