Amazon Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

21 Feb 2023

Amazon to fund world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm between offshore wind turbines

Amazon is funding the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines. The project, North Sea Farm 1, will be located in a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands, designed to test and improve methods of seaweed farming, while researching the potential of seaweed to sequester carbon. The project is managed […]

17 Sep 2019

Amazon fires are impacting on global water cycles

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Interesting article from National Geographic on how fires in the Amazon Rainforest impact on global water cycles. All news outlets have been covering the story of the hideous Amazon fires this week, but how does this impact the water resources in the area and beyond? According to the National Geographic, burning more and more of […]