These days they call him Ian the renewable energy is expensive potato
Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published
Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints
Continue reading...
Breaking Waves: Ocean News
04/28/2025 - 01:35
04/27/2025 - 11:00
My fear growing up was gun violence. But a bigger threat to my body may have come from an invisible villain
Everyone experiences a moment that shapes who they are – a moment when childhood innocence is lost, and the burdens and traumas of the world become clearer.
For me, that moment occurred in elementary school when my friend discovered a gun in Denning Park in Englewood, New Jersey. For days, I worried about what might be lurking behind the trees and in the shadows. This anxiety lingered through high school; I even wrote in my local newspaper that “I couldn’t remember anything more frightening for a young girl in elementary school”.
Continue reading...
04/27/2025 - 10:00
Integrity organisation claims Australians for Natural Gas overstates role of gas in economy and failed to disclose directors’ links to industry on website
Polls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverage
Anywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guide
Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email
Listen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina
Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been asked to investigate allegedly misleading claims made by Australians for Natural Gas, a pro-gas group with directors who include a gas industry executive and a Liberal candidate running in the federal election.
Lawyers acting for Climate Integrity, a not-for-profit focused on corporate accountability, have filed a complaint with the ACCC. They argue that the website and advertising materials of Australians for Natural Gas have failed to disclose its directors’ links to the gas industry and Liberal party, and overinflated the role of gas in the economy and energy transition.
Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter
Continue reading...
04/27/2025 - 10:00
From bad airline service to the once election-deciding future of the NBN, Labor and the Coalition have been notably silent on some key policy areas
Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaign
Polls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverage
Anywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guide
Listen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina
Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast
With less than week left in the federal election campaign, there are still several important policy issues Labor and the Coalition have so far been unwilling to touch.
Many of these issues featured prominently in previous election campaigns but, so far, they have been sidelined by the government and the opposition.
Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter
Continue reading...
04/27/2025 - 07:00
Conservationists fear fallout from president’s proclamation on fishing in federally protected area of Pacific Ocean
Environmental conservation groups are expressing major concerns over Donald Trump’s recent proclamation to reverse fishing regulations across the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine national monument, a federally protected area in the central Pacific Ocean spanning nearly 500,000 sq miles.
As one of the most pristine tropical marine environments in the world, the monument is now at risk following Trump’s decision last week to unleash American commercial fishing in the area with far-reaching environmental consequences.
Continue reading...
04/26/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 27 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00115-8
A psychologically wise intervention to inform relational organizing in the face of climate and ocean change
04/23/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00120-x
Towards inclusive global collaborations in coral reef science
04/22/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00112-x
Shades of blue: the regional structure of the ocean economy in Brazil
04/20/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 21 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00117-6
The contributions of coastal small-scale fisheries toward the sustainable development goals: a Kenyan Case Study
World Ocean Explorer Wins Gold Medal Serious Simulation Award from Serious Play Annual International Competition
10/26/2023 - 14:35
For Immediate Release October 19, 2023
Sedgwick, Maine USA World Ocean Explorer, a 3D virtual aquarium and educational simulation, was recently cited for excellence, winning a Gold Medal Award in the 2023 International Serious Play Awards Program.
World Ocean Explorer is an innovative 3D virtual aquarium designed for educational exploration of the world’s oceans. With interactive exhibits and a lobby space, visitors can immerse themselves in realistic marine environments, including a DEEP SEA exhibit funded by Schmidt Ocean Institute, showcasing unprecedented deep-sea discoveries off Australia. Targeted at 3rd graders and beyond, this immersive experience offers a range of perspectives on the ocean environment and can be explored through guided tours or user-controlled interfaces. Visit DEEP SEA at worldoceanexplorer.org/deep-sea-aquarium.html.
Serious Play Conference brings together professionals who are exploring the use of game-based learning, sharing their experience, and working together to shape the future of training and education. For more information on Serious Play Award Program visit seriousplayconf.com/international-serious-play-award-programs.
World Ocean Explorer is a transformative virtual aquarium designed to deepen understanding of the world ocean and amplify connection for young people worldwide. Organized around the principles of Ocean Literacy and the Next Gen Science Standards, World Ocean Explorer brings the wonder and knowledge of ocean species and systems to students in formal and informal classrooms, absolutely free to anyone with a good Internet connection. As an advocate for the ocean through communications, World Ocean Observatory believes there is no better investment in the future of the sustainable ocean than through a new approach to educational engagement that excites, informs, and motivates students to explore the wonders of our marine world and to understand the pervasive connection and implication for our future, inherent in the protection and conservation of all aspects of our ocean world.
World Ocean Explorer presents an astonishing 3-dimensional simulated aquarium visit, organized to reveal the wonders of undersea life, with layers of detailed data and information to augment the emotional connection made to the astonishing beauty and complexity of the dynamic ocean. Within each of the virtual exhibits, students visit exemplary theme-based sites with myriad opportunities to understand the larger perspectives of scientific knowledge as organized and visualized to dramatize the impact and change on ocean life as a result of natural and human-generated events. Through immersion among displays, mixed media and 3D models, the experience of an aquarium visit will be brought into classrooms or home school environments as a free, accessible, always available opportunity for teaching and learning. All of this will be available to a world audience without physical limitation or cost. World Ocean Explorer, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, receives support from the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, Visual Solutions Lab, the Climate Change Institute, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, and The Fram Museum Oslo. To learn more about the current and future exhibits of World Ocean Explorer, visit worldoceanexplorer.org.
media contact
Trisha Badger, Managing Director, World Ocean Observatory | [email protected] +12077011069
Read more »
