The Ocean Brief

Ocean stories and insights covering science, policy, innovation, and the ocean community

The future of seafood waste is not wasteful

One person's trash is another person's treasure, as the old proverb goes. Whether dealing with inedible or less appetising parts of seafood, small business owners, conservation organisations, researchers, and communities are showing that seafood waste doesn't have to be wasteful.

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Animals & Plants, Climate Crisis, Technology Samantha Andrews Animals & Plants, Climate Crisis, Technology Samantha Andrews

Harnessing whale's carbon capture potential

Whale Seeker, a Montreal-based startup that leverages AI to simplify whale monitoring, is leading a new project the Canadian Arctic, to develop and test a scalable whale carbon and biodiversity detection methodology and credit system. The Whale Carbon Plus project will incentivise marine actors to monitor marine mammal presence and take meaningful action to avoid conflict with them.

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Environment, People and the Sea, Technology, Climate Crisis Samantha Andrews Environment, People and the Sea, Technology, Climate Crisis Samantha Andrews

Save the world with a shipping pallet revolution

Shipping pallets may not be the most exciting of topics, but when it comes to tackling climate change they have a role to play too! Discover how NGO Change The Pallet are hoping to reduce carbon emissions from shipping and transportation of goods with a rather simple solution…

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