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Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

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Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

A visitor buys jellyfish products during the 2024 jellyfish festival in Yingkou, Liaoning province, in October. Editor's Note: In a series of reports titled "Claims to Fame", China Daily looks at how some regions have earned wealth and recognition through specific products to realize the goal of development. Feared by some for its ghostly appearance and toxic tentacles, and loved …

Jellyfish Yingkou

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Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A fisherman holds up a jellyfish he caught in Yingkou in 2022. Chen Dehui, head of the Gaizhou Yinghui Aquatic Products Processing Factory, one of the city's major jellyfish processors, is an expert in the field. "The second step involves removing the toxins, which is typically achieved by adding water to allow the jellyfish to decompose at around 25 C. …

Water Jellyfish Chen Yingkou

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Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A visitor buys jellyfish products during the 2024 jellyfish festival in Yingkou, Liaoning province, in October. Editor's Note: In a series of reports titled "Claims to Fame", China Daily looks at how some regions have earned wealth and recognition through specific products to realize the goal of development. Feared by some for its ghostly appearance and toxic tentacles, and loved …

Jellyfish Yingkou

Top News

1 week ago

Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A visitor buys jellyfish products during the 2024 jellyfish festival in Yingkou, Liaoning province, in October. Editor's Note: In a series of reports titled "Claims to Fame", China Daily looks at how some regions have earned wealth and recognition through specific products to realize the goal of development. Feared by some for its ghostly appearance and toxic tentacles, and loved …

Jellyfish Yingkou

Top News

1 week ago

Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A visitor buys jellyfish products during the 2024 jellyfish festival in Yingkou, Liaoning province, in October. Editor's Note: In a series of reports titled "Claims to Fame", China Daily looks at how some regions have earned wealth and recognition through specific products to realize the goal of development. Feared by some for its ghostly appearance and toxic tentacles, and loved …

Yingkou Jellyfish Production

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1 week ago

Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A visitor buys jellyfish products during the 2024 jellyfish festival in Yingkou, Liaoning province, in October. Editor's Note: In a series of reports titled "Claims to Fame", China Daily looks at how some regions have earned wealth and recognition through specific products to realize the goal of development. Feared by some for its ghostly appearance and toxic tentacles, and loved …

Jellyfish Yingkou

Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A visitor buys jellyfish products during the 2024 jellyfish festival in Yingkou, Liaoning province, in October. Editor's Note: In a series of reports titled "Claims to Fame", China Daily looks at how some regions have earned wealth and recognition through specific products to realize the goal of development. Feared by some for its ghostly appearance and toxic tentacles, and loved …

Jellyfish Yingkou

1 week ago

Jellyfish production hub spreads its tentacles

China Daily

A fisherman holds up a jellyfish he caught in Yingkou in 2022. Chen Dehui, head of the Gaizhou Yinghui Aquatic Products Processing Factory, one of the city's major jellyfish processors, is an expert in the field. "The second step involves removing the toxins, which is typically achieved by adding water to allow the jellyfish to decompose at around 25 C. …

Water Jellyfish Chen Yingkou

1 month, 1 week ago

Underwater robot spots a glowing ‘mystery mollusk’ in the ocean’s midnight zone

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean’s midnight zone: a glowing “mystery mollusk.” Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any sea slug Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have seen before. “Our discovery is a …

Animals Water Species Zone Study Sea Deep

1 month, 1 week ago

Underwater robot spots a glowing ‘mystery mollusk’ in the ocean’s midnight zone

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean’s midnight zone: a glowing “mystery mollusk.” Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any sea slug Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have seen before. “Our discovery is a …

Animals Water Species Zone Study Sea Deep

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cleaning Up Pristine Beaches Means Spotting Plastic Trash From Space

Live Mint

-- Plastics are ubiquitous in natural systems, and tiny pieces of the material have been found everywhere from the Arctic to the Mariana Trench. To test a theory that satellites could help detect the waste on beaches, Jenna Guffogg hauled discarded scraps from a clam-shell child’s pool, bubble wrap, single-use PET bottles and a blue polyester tarp to her local …

Waste Plastic Guffogg

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Marine invertebrates – weird, wonderful and unknown

ABC

Robyn Williams: Okay, so let's hear more about that jellyfish. Robyn Williams: Well, it's the same sort of question perhaps that I ask people who are studying insects instead of lovely furry animals or wombats or things that go boing boing. Claire Rowe: She's found a lot of species, and when you go around the museum collection, you see her …

Climate Change Work Museum Jellyfish Species Williams Lot

2 months, 1 week ago

Aquarium visitors flocked to see a giant ‘whale shark’ – it turned out to be a robot

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Aquarium enthusiasts in China were …

China Chinese Visitors Whale Robotic Shark

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says

LA Times

In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash from the Pacific Ocean, representing 0.5% of the total accumulation. After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several …

Ocean Pacific Trash Three Years Cleanup Vessels Ocean Cleanup

4 months, 1 week ago

Devon fisherman catches Lego shark lost at sea almost 30 years ago

The Independent

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6 months ago

The German robots hunting the sea for WW2 bombs

BBC

The German robots hunting the sea for WW2 bombs SeaTerra An underwater "crawler" vehicle adapted for clearing dumped munition from the sea More than 1.6 million tonnes of unexploded weapons litter the North Sea and Baltic Sea. "For the past 10, 20 years we've been clearing munitions for the purpose of construction – for wind farms, cables, a harbour expansion …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Blue jellyfish-like critters arrive in Bay Area. When will they show up on SoCal beaches?

LA Times

An April 2023 image shows the sunset illuminating a by-the-wind sailor in Huntington Beach. The creatures began arriving at Bay Area beaches recently and are expected in Southern California within months. Strange springtime visitors — gelatinous sea creatures known as by-the-wind sailors, or Velella velellas— are arriving by the thousands on Bay Area beaches. “By kind of random luck, if …

Beach Southern California Sail Wagner Bay Area Velella

11 months ago

The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology

Slate

Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used to describe the vast stretch of ocean from the west coast of North America to Japan that is crammed with an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, most of which are plastic. However, several years later, Helm still believes that we don’t understand enough about the environmental …

Marine Life Impact Ocean Cleanup Marine Devices This Area

1 year, 4 months ago

Decades-old rubbish washes up at Bathers Beach south of Perth as researchers examine litter to measure effectiveness of plastic bans

ABC

Thousands of items of rubbish, much of it old plastic, have washed up on one of Perth's most popular beaches, and it's from all around the city. Key points: Bathers Beach, south of Perth, is one of the city's most litter-strewn Researchers are studying it to analyse the effectiveness of plastic bans Seahorse bins have been installed for people to …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Coastal shellfish 'colonise' ocean plastic, reveals study

Hindustan Times

Scientists found coastal species of shellfish and anemones living and breeding on floating islands of garbage in the Pacific thousands of miles from home, a study revealed Monday. "The high seas are colonized by a diverse array of coastal species, which survive and reproduce in the open ocean," they wrote in the study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. "Coastal …

Japan Ocean Coastal Species Study Sea Plastic

1 year, 8 months ago

Blue jellyfish-like creatures swarm California beaches, netizens stunned

Hindustan Times

What if you are walking on a beach and see thousands of blue-colored creatures washed up on the shore? Well, believe it or not, a sea of little blue creatures have actually washed up along Southern California beaches. Blue jellyfish-like creatures wash up on California beaches. Officials at the Point Reyes National Seashores informed in a Facebook post, "Velella velella …

California California Beaches

1 year, 9 months ago

Sea monsters? This bizarre whale feeding technique may explain some ancient folklore

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. But the “trap feeding” or “tread-water feeding” method, as it’s called, was first observed in 2011, scientists speculated that it might have been a new method that whales adapted because of changing ecological conditions. The study published Tuesday, however, suggests that humans recorded instances of whales trap feeding in the 13th century …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Shellfish ‘forgotten victims’ of sewage polluting UK waters say Lib Dems

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

Chinese scientists make robot fish to ‘eat’ microplastics in polluted Oceans

Live Mint

In an attempt to clean oceans of microplastics, Chinese scientists have developed robot fish that would "eat" the tiny plastic particles. Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China have created 1.3 centimetres in size robot fish. The team aims to enable the robot to collect microplastics in deeper water and provide information to analyse marine pollution in real time, …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Robo-fish developed by scientists to clean ocean dirt, netizens concerned about 'real fish'

India TV News

Robo-fish has been developed by a team of scientists at Sichuan University in China. The tech employed in building the robo-fish is cutting edge and it is claimed that they can move at nearly three body lengths per second - a record for soft marine robots. Robo-fish to clean ocean water Marine pollution is a major cause of worry for …

Water Ocean Clean Netizens Real Fish

2 years, 6 months ago

The tiny fish-shaped robot removing microplastics from the sea

The Independent

A tiny robot fish that can “swim” around polluted waterways picking up and removing microplastics has been developed by researchers in China. The researchers demonstrated how their 15mm swimming fish robot could repeatedly absorb nearby polystyrene microplastics and transport them elsewhere. The team, led by researchers at the Polymer Research Institute of Sichuan University in Chengdu and colleagues at Sichuan …

Sea Microplastics Sichuan University Swimming Robot

2 years, 8 months ago

Microplastics found in mussels along South Australian beaches, study reveals

ABC

Wild blue mussels in South Australia are eating about three and a half pieces of microplastics – a much larger meal of unwanted waste than researchers initially expected, a study shows. Key points: Flinders University has measured the presence of microplastics along South Australia's coastline for the first time Microplastics were found at every beach examined They say wild blue …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Octopuses are increasingly using garbage in the ocean floor for shelter, study finds

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have documented a likely increase in the use of litter on the ocean floor …

Study Scientists Shelter Octopuses Ocean Floor Marine Litter Litter

2 years, 10 months ago

Jellyfish warning as Portuguese Man O’War washes up on British beach

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Portuguese Man O’War was sighted on Slapton Sands and Lannacombe Beach, Devon. Coastguard …

Beach British Jellyfish Slapton Sands

3 years, 6 months ago

A Clever Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean's ‘Twilight Zone’

Wired

The grandest migration on Earth isn’t the journey of some herbivore in Africa or a bird in the sky, but the vertical movement of whole ecosystems in the open ocean. Today in the journal Science Robotics, a team of engineers and oceanographers describes how they got a new autonomous underwater vehicle to lock onto movements of organisms and follow them …

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3 years, 6 months ago

How a drone army is rising to tackle ocean plastics

Live Mint

Floating drones inspired by whale sharks and four-wheeled robots that resemble the Mars rover are among the latest inventions designed to remove litter from the oceans. As many as 91 million metric tons of litter entered the oceans between 1990 and 2015, as much as 87% of which was plastic, according to the research. Solutions invented over the past few …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial

The Hindu

A seabed mining robot being tested on the Pacific Ocean floor at a depth of more than 4 km has become detached, the Belgian company running the experimental trial said on Wednesday. Global Sea Mineral Resources, the deep-sea exploratory division of dredging company DEME Group, has been testing Patania II, a 25-tonne mining robot prototype, in its concession in the …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Stunning DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected

LA Times

When the research vessel Sally Ride set sail for Santa Catalina Island to map an underwater graveyard of DDT waste barrels, its crew had high hopes of documenting for the first time just how many corroded containers littered the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. “I was pretty shocked that it just kept extending as far as it did,” …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Underwater Robots to Help Find Thousands of Barrels of Toxic Chemicals Dumped in the Pacific

News 18

Ocean scientists will soon be taking the help of robot submarines to detect thousands of barrels of toxic chemicals submerged in the Pacific Ocean, near Los Angeles. Barrels and barrels of harmful chemicals including DDT are believed to have been dumped inside the ocean since past many decades. Given the large area that needs to be scanned, scientists have put …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Deep-sea ‘Roombas’ will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina

LA Times

When Californians learned in October that the waters off Santa Catalina Island once served as a dumping ground for thousands of barrels of DDT waste, the ocean science community jumped into action. “We want to provide a common base map of what’s on the seabed at a high enough resolution,” said Eric Terrill of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Welcome to Dubai’s RoboCafe, run by robot chefs and waiters

Live Mint

Nothing says social distancing quite like Dubai's RoboCafe, where robots have replaced their human overlords. "It's a good idea, especially right now," said Emirati customer Jamal Ali Hassan, whose piping hot beverage was delivered with no spills. "I'm a bit of a tech nerd, so seeing the little robots, like the roomba vacuum delivering food, and the different armatures -- …

Dubai Customer Deliver Robot Works Robocafe

3 years, 10 months ago

This ocean cleanup yacht can feed on plastic trash and convert it into fuel

Live Mint

A French ocean adventurer and his team have designed a yacht which he says can scoop up plastic garbage to stop it blighting the world's oceans, and converts the same waste into fuel to help power the boat. That will melt the plastic, producing gas which drives a turbine, and in turn generates electricity for the boat's systems to use. …

Ocean Plastic Bourgnon

3 years, 11 months ago

This ‘snake robot’ will fix pipelines on the ocean floor

CNN

Trondheim, Norway CNN Business — The deep-sea oil and gas industry has a vast and costly infrastructure to maintain. That can cost up to $100,000 per day, according to Pål Liljebäck, chief technology officer with Eelume Subsea Intervention, which developed the robot. Liljebäck says that by “enabling the robot to become a subsea resident living in a docking station, it …

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3 years, 11 months ago

800.000 kilos of waste still floating around in the North Sea two years after MSC Zoe container accident

NL Times

Two years after 342 containers fell overboard from the containership MSC Zoe, a quarter of the trash is still in the North Sea. “The invisible waste in the sea is also harmful.” To draw attention to the rubbish still floating around from the container accident, Organization De Noordzee published their campaign, “Would you help if you could?” The photo shows …

Waste Sea Msc Zoe Van Galen Container Accident

4 years ago

Watch: Incredible Jellyfish-shaped Underwater Roundabout on Faroe Islands Set to Open

News 18

The works of the Eysturoyar tunnel network are nearly over and the gates to a spectacular undersea roundabout are about to open. According to a report by The Guardian, this roundabout is the world’s first underwater roundabout that goes under the North Atlantic ocean. This tunnel will make it a lot easier to reach the capital of Faroe Islands, Torshavn, …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Plastic catcher to reduce litter in Schiedam harbor

NL Times

Public works department Rijkswaterstaat and company Allseas together developed a plastic catcher meant to catch and collect floating waste as well as waste up to 1 meter underwater. The "Catchy" was installed in Vijfsluizerhaven in Schiedam, where Rijkswaterstaat believes it can catch up to 200 kilos of waste per month. "Due to the effects of currents and strong wind from …

Rijkswaterstaat Catchy Vijfsluizerhaven Plastic Catch Reduce Litter

4 years, 5 months ago

Thousands of blue jellyfish clog cooling system in Israeli power plant

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of jellyfish clogged up …

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