The Ripple: 2024 Wrap Up

Happy December ❄️!

Looking back on 2024, we are honored to be part of a global movement for safeguard planet ocean. Thank YOU to our community who continues to inspire us to share ocean climate solutions with the world and share their stories. This year was full of impact, and we wouldnʻt be here without you.

Take a look at the splash we made in 2024, together 🌊 

📣 Ocean News!

From science to conservation to policy, here is the latest news for our ocean.

• 🐋 Norway blocked deep sea mining licenses for 2024 and 2025 that would previously have begun mining in federal waters, demonstrating how activism can shape conservation efforts.

• 🐟 Tuna thriving from new MPA establishments around the world, as localized conservation benefits spillover into other areas of ocean bioenergetics.

• 🌊 A new groundbreaking study reveals how conserving marine biodiversity directly benefits human wellbeing, particularly livlihoods for coastal communities.

•  🧊 2.3 Trillion Tonne Mega Iceberg breaks free, but it may build thriving new ecosystems as it travels.

🗣️Impact Campaigns!

FutureSwell supports collective and high-impact advocacy campaigns for a healthier ocean. Here are the recent ones we have joined that we recommend.

• 🦈Are you participating in the 12 Days of Sharkmas with our friends at Deep Blue Eco Tours? This campaign offers impactful daily activities that contribute to shark conservation efforts.

• Watch the Deep Sea Rising Movie and take a stand against damaging deep sea mining! 🌊

• Take action with Only One and tell the EU government to stop bottom trawling in marine protected areas!

• Tell the Biden Administration to conserve the Blake Plateau with monument designation, protecting it from deep sea mining and oil and gas drilling. ✍🏻

🎥Long-form Media Round Up!

Whatʻs new with our long form media?

• PODCAST: Ocean Solution Stories with Surfrider CEO Chad Nelsen - Let’s talk ocean solutions with the CEO of the world’s largest grassroots ocean network. 🔥

• YOUTUBE: Maui Whale Watch - Humpback whale season is starting in Hawai’i and it is magical! ✨🐋

• YOUTUBE: Sounds of Nature - Listen to some of our favorite ocean sounds from around the Pacific in this special ASMR video 🤫🎵

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🌎FutureSwell Around the World!

As a media and impact consultancy, we regularly partner with conferences, summits, and host community events to advance solutions through storytelling.

Coral Bleaching Awareness Month

• Over 60 organizations joined Coral Reef Alliance for the second annual event spotlighting conservation progress and public outreach. Check it out!

• Reef Futures 2024 assembled by Coral Restoration Consortium in Cancun to share knowledge and conservation solutions benefiting coral preservation.

  

If you could not attend this years events, catch up with everything online, and head to our Instagram where we recapped many of our experiences.

Deep Dive!

Using Bubbles to Keep the Ocean Quiet 🤫

As sustainable enterprises continue to expand globally, environmentalist are actively collaborating to ensure biological interactions are minimally invasive, and one method is by keeping mechanisms quiet. Offshore wind turbines are attached to the seafloor, but produce residual sounds from engine components and disruption of underwater currents. To reduce foreign noises, researchers have been experimenting with bubble net perimeters to entrap sound pollution and protect surrounding ocean ambient environment. Read more

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