• Ocean

Climate Change and the Ocean Century

• #30x30
• climate change
• exploration
• ocean
• ocean governance
• science
• sea level rise

By Monica Medina, Co-Founder and Co-Publisher, Our Daily Planet This op/ed was published in World War Zero Magazine and appears here with its permission. The ocean is our lifeblood on Earth. It covers 71% of the planet, provides us oxygen, regulates our climate and increasingly severe weather events by determining the strength of storms, droughts […]

• Ocean

One Working Remotely Thing: The Wonders of The Coral Sea Discovered

• #30x30
• conservation
• Coral Sea
• deep sea
• exploration
• Schmidt Ocean Institute
• science

Recently, a deep-sea expedition to the Coral Sea northwest of Australia conducted by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, founded by Eric Schmidt, the former chairman of Google, and his wife, Wendy returned with stunning images to share.  Bill Broad of The New York Times wrote an in-depth story that featured the images and described some of the most important findings.

Why This Matters:  Aside from the many discoveries, such as 10 new species of fish, snails and sponges, the entire expedition was conducted remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic — which apparently is a global first, but is unlikely the last time that will happen.

• Ocean

Seabed 2030: An Ambitious Project To Map the 80% of the Ocean That Is Unexplored

• conservation
• environment
• exploration
• map
• ocean
• science
• seabed
• United Nations

With so much focus on space exploration, it is easy to forget that the ocean covers 70 percent of the Earth and 80 percent of that is unknown and uncharted — has not been mapped.  But a project called “Seabed 2030” launched three years ago, is aiming to change all that.

Why This Matters:  It is hard to believe how much we don’t know about our home — it’s as if we live in a house but have never explored the basement.