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Journey Developer’s Latest Game Is Helping Clean Up The Oceans
Since 2020, Thatgamecompany’s collaborative exploration game Sky: Children of the Light has celebrated Days of Nature, an annual nature-themed event to benefit an environmental charity. This year’s event has just started, benefiting The Ocean Cleanup with a focus on the issue of fishing waste.
Days of Nature, which will run this year between April 20 and May 7, encourages players to experience a story quest that this year will involve helping a light creature who has been impacted by ocean waste. Previous events have also included in-game quests that have encouraged players to help clean up their environment, or to help creatures in need of aid.
The event also offers multiple new items players can buy to contribute to the charity, including a seashell that plays ocean sounds, and a pair of sunglasses that will be wearable in game. Players will also be able to buy items from previous Days of Nature that they missed out on.
Twitter Reacts to Frank Ocean’s Coachella Comeback: “A Mess From Start to Finish”
It was meant to be a colossal comeback, but Frank Ocean‘s polarizing performance at Coachella 2023 appears to be more sink than swim.
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In a unique move, the ‘Thinkin Bout You’ belter was announced as a headliner for this year’s installment of the music extravaganza more than a year before taking to the stage.
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What Are The Te Lapa Lights That Ancient Polynesians Used To Navigate The Oceans? – IFL Science
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Scientists Propose Turning Carbon Pollution Into Baking Soda and Storing it In Oceans
Scientists have set out a way to suck planet-heating carbon pollution from the air, turn it into sodium bicarbonate and store it in oceans, according to a new paper. The technique could be up to three times more efficient than current carbon capture technology, say the authors of the study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances….
The team have used copper to modify the absorbent material used in direct air capture. The result is an absorbent “which can remove CO2 from the atmosphere at ultra-dilute concentration at a capacity which is two to three times greater than existing absorbents,” Arup SenGupta, a professor at Lehigh University and a study author, told CNN. This material can be produced easily and cheaply and would help drive down the costs of direct air capture, he added. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it can then be turned into sodium bicarbonate — baking soda — using seawater and released into the ocean at a small concentration.
The oceans “are infinite sinks,” SenGupta said. “If you put all the CO2 from the atmosphere, emitted every day — or every year — into the ocean, the increase in concentration would be very, very minor,” he said. SenGupta’s idea is that direct air capture plants can be located offshore, giving them access to abundant amounts of seawater for the process.
Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the study, told CNN that the chemistry was “novel and elegant.” The process is a modification of one we already know, he said, “which is easier to understand, scale-up and develop than something totally new.”
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What to Know About the Major Oceans Treaty Just Finalized by More Than 190 Nations
Earth is a blue planet, and this weekend yielded good news for our world’s plentiful marine environments. Leaders from more than 190 nations around the world came together on Saturday night to establish a long-awaited, global agreement to protect the world’s oceans.
Trash Headed for Oceans Blocked by the Ocean Cleanup Project’s ‘Trash Interceptor 007’
“But I can’t help wondering where it all went… Does it all end up in the ocean?”
To answer that question, I turned to the experts at L.A. County Public Works, who oversee storm drains and waterways across the region. The good news is that there are a number of ways that trash is caught before it reaches the open sea. All manner of filters and screens and basins — and something called the Trash Interceptor 007 (I am not making this up) installed last fall at Ballona Creek — are employed to collect many thousands of tons of litter before they end up bobbing around the Pacific Ocean, releasing toxins and being mistaken for food by marine animals.
Trash Interceptor 007 is a sleek solar-powered boat from The Ocean Cleanup project. Last weekend it caught 11.6 tons of plastic, garbage and debris, and from October to January collected more than 42.5 tons of trash.
That’s the good news, the Times notes…
The bad news is that in storm conditions like we’ve just experienced, the trash busting systems get overwhelmed and some of the debris washed from the streets ends up on the beaches or in the ocean, along with the dog poop, oil and chemicals that slip through even the best filters. Ugh. All of this is to explain why the many efforts by cities, counties and the state to reduce trash, especially the nonbiodegradable plastic variety, are so important.
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Former VP Al Gore warns of ‘boiling oceans’ and ‘rain bombs’ during ‘unhinged’ speech at Davos forum
Don Cheadle Says People Came Up To Him In Person And Bashed Ocean’s 12
The movie Ocean’s 12 was not as beloved as Ocean’s 11, and people were not afraid to share their opinions when coming across one of its stars, Don Cheadle, on the street. Reflecting on the Ocean’s series as part of a GQ interview, Cheadle recalled how, despite the hate, it was the most fun to film of the three movies.
“The second movie is the one that people will just unabashedly walk up to you and go, ‘Yeah, I hated that one. That one sucked.’ I’m like, ‘Cool, you just said that to my face like I’m not a person. But alright, thank you.’ That was actually, for us, the most fun of all of them,” Cheadle said (via Variety).
Ocean’s 12 takes place in Europe and was shot on location. Cheadle said the production crew rented out the entire sixth floor of the exclusive Russie Hotel in Rome, so the cast and their families could avoid the paparazzi.