Oceans

Robots in the ocean. Are we really surprised? I mean, some of the things that robots can do nowadays are incredible. And as the relationship between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and climate change technologies is explored, robots’ roles in traveling…Read More

Starting in 2017, a team of scientists and researchers embarked on the Growing Islands project. This project has continued in the following three years to identify and test a potential way to mitigate the effects of sea level rise on island and…Read More

This article was updated on June 8th, 2021. Today, the world celebrates and acknowledges the importance of oceans in the health of the planet. With the ocean’s theme: Life and Livelihoods, this year’s World Oceans Day focuses on the ocean’s role within…Read More

Remember a year ago? It was all about banning plastic straws. Everything was black and white, plastic was bad and everything else was good. The checkout line at Whole Foods, Tribeca, NYC, was the great humiliator, and as I always…Read More

This month we are featuring Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, an innovative and entrepreneurial scientist, who we met during the recent Good Housekeeping’s Raise the Green Bar conference. He’s opening remarks immediately drew attention due to the statement: “Emotional health is the basis of…Read More

Eco18 recently attended the third Regenerative Earth Summit: SOIL + WATER + CLIMATE, joining global leaders in Boulder, Colorado to learn how they are tackling climate change and the health of the planet through the power of commerce and collaboration.…Read More

With the many decades of mining in and on the surface of the earth for minerals, some more valuable than others, it’s concluding that the rate of depletion of these riches’ will not meet future higher demand. Mining companies are…Read More

Environmentalists have long struggled to save the world’s oceans from the perils of overfishing, climate change, and pollution. What if we have it backward? What if the question is not how we can preserve the wildness of our oceans, but…Read More

According to some they don’t and others that they play an important role. So, we decided to take a look and form our own opinion.  A recent article from  www.thehill.com stated that, “Perhaps the biggest benefit aquariums have in advancing conservation is…Read More

Lighthouses have been guiding mariners home since the times of The Iliad and The Odyssey in the 8th century BCE. They may have begun as fires on top of hills, known as beacon fires, but they have developed quite magnificently…Read More