Deep-sea Mining

• Bloomberg: Governments Turn Against Deep-Sea Mining as EV Boom Drives Demand for Metals
• MongaBay: Concerns over transparency and access abound at deep-sea mining negotiations
• Eco-Business: Scientists decry lack of transparency at deep-sea mining negotiations

Miscellaneous Coverage

• Futurism: MARINE SCIENTISTS SAY PULLING PLASTIC OUT OF THE OCEAN ISN’T EVEN WORTH IT
• Homer News: Homer Flex students do research in Kachemak Bay

Deep-sea Mining

• Grist: The deep sea could hold the key to a renewable future. Is it worth the costs?

Deep-sea Mining

• Grist: Clean energy requires rare metals. Should we mine the ocean floor to get them?
• New Scientist: How do you square a passion for the ocean with deep-sea mining?
• Science: Bus-size robot set to vacuum up valuable metals from the deep sea

Miscellaneous Coverage

• The Atlantic: No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

Dolphin-view

• The Verge: The DolphinView headset lets you ‘see’ like your favorite sea creature
• Digital Trends: This DIY wearable lets you see the world like a dolphin does
• Motherboard: This DIY Headset Lets You Echolocate Like a Dolphin
• Popular Mechanics: This Guy Built a Headset To See Like a Dolphin
• NowThis: DolphinView Glasses Use Echolocation To Understand Marine Environments

Miscellaneous Coverage

• PBS News Hour: A massive plastic cleanup project provokes hope and skepticism
• Smithsonian: From 3-D Printed Gills to AI Dolphin Dictionaries, These Innovations Could Make Us More Like Aquaman
• PC Magazine: Citizen Science: Do Try This at Home
• Atlas Obscura: Will There Ever Be an Anglerfish Emoji?
• Live Science: Here’s What Happens to a Styrofoam Cup Under the Deep Sea’s Crushing Pressure
• The Pulse: Why do we need the wild?
• Earth Touch: Sex changes, sperm slaves & ballooning bodies: Spoon worms are really weird

Deep-Sea Mining

• The Verge: Deep-sea mining could find rare elements for smartphones — but will it destroy rare species?
• The Independent: Deep sea: Potential threats to Earth’s ‘final frontier’ are growing

Climate Change Communications

• The Conversation: Communicating climate change: Focus on the framing, not just the facts.
• Popular Science: Want people to notice your climate research? Learn how to write.

The Great Hagfish Sliming

• National Geographic: ‘Slime Eels’ Explode on Highway After Bizarre Traffic Accident.
• The Verge: What to know when your car is melted by 7,500 pounds of slime eels.
• PBS Newshour: 5 overlooked stories that deserve your attention. 
• Business Insider: A truck crash set 7,500 pounds of slime eels loose on an Oregon highway, covering it in goo.
• The New York Times: Chain-Reaction Crash With Minor Injuries, Except for the Slime Eels.
• Gizmodo: Hagfish Slime Is Wonderful.
• Quartz: A freak accident covering an Oregon highway in slime is a dire warning about our oceans’ health.
• Huffington Post: Thousands Of Slime Eels Spill Onto Oregon Highway In Gross, Gooey Crash.

Creature Identification

• International Business Times: Fanged Mystery Creature Discovered On Texas Beach Puzzles Internet.
• USA Today: This sea creature found after Hurricane Harvey is pretty gnarly. 
• The Washington Post: Scientists have identified the 50-foot creature that washed up on an Indonesian beach.
• Business Insider: This revolting video of a spurting clam is going viral.

Marine Biology Emoji Chess

• The AV Club: Marine biology nerd chess is the only decent justification for 280-character tweets.
• The Irish Independent: Here’s what happened when two marine scientists played emoji chess on Twitter.

Miscellaneous Coverage

• Popular Science: How New Zealand is avoiding hundreds of exploding whale corpses.
• Fast Company: Who Will Clean Up Silicon Valley’s E-Wasteland?
• The Falmouth Enterprise: Falmouth Man Pitches In To Aid Storm-Ravaged Dominica.