According to <a href="https://tass.ru/politika/20348589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TASS,</a> the Russian state-owned news agency, Russia is objecting to what it calls the United States’ &#8220;illegal attempts to unilaterally change the external boundaries of the continental shelf&#8221; in regions of the oceans around the world.
In advance of the council of the International Seabed Authority meetings between March 18 and March 29, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement accusing the U.S. of moving its boundaries.
“During the session, the Russian delegation announced its non-recognition of the outer boundaries of the continental shelf declared unilaterally by the United States in December 2023 beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the width of the territorial sea is measured in seven regions of the World Ocean,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “Earlier, the American side was sent a corresponding demarche via a bilateral line.”
But it was Russia that claimed in December it wanted an extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. During the 13th International Arctic Forum, Russian Navy chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov stated, &#8220;There is need for a full-scale expansion into the continental shelf beyond the borders of the 200-mile exclusive economic zone.”
As far back as 2001, Russia asked the U.N. to let them expand the  Arctic Seabed; the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) rejected the submission. &#8220;In 2015, Moscow re-submitted an updated claim&#8221; and did so again in March 2021. “In all, Russia’s continental shelf as proposed would encompass almost 70 percent of the Arctic Ocean, overlapping EEZ’s of other Arctic countries such as Denmark and Canada,” The Maritime Executive <a href="https://maritime-executive.com/article/russia-insists-on-an-expanded-boundary-in-the-arctic-ocean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention issued a legal framework for the use and protection of the sea, stating guidelines with respect to states&#8217; navigational rights, maritime zones and boundaries, and economic jurisdiction. The United States has never ratified the convention. In 2012, when 34 senators opposed ratification, Sen. Rob Portman, (R-OH), <a href="https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/7-reasons-us-should-not-ratify-un-convention-the-law-the-sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-external="yes">stated</a>:
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We simply are not persuaded that decisions by the International Seabed Authority and international tribunals empowered by this treaty will be more favorable to U.S. interests than bilateral negotiations, voluntary arbitration, and other traditional means of resolving maritime issues. No international the seas, and we are confident that our nation will continue to protect its navigational freedom, valid territorial claims, and other maritime rights. On balance, we believe that the treaty’s litigation exposure and impositions on U.S. sovereignty outweigh its potential benefits.
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The Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/7-reasons-us-should-not-ratify-un-convention-the-law-the-sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined its opposition</a> to ratification by noting “U.S. membership in the convention would not confer any maritime right or freedom that the U.S. does not already enjoy. &#8230; U.S. accession would penalize U.S. companies by subjecting them to the whims of an unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy and would force them to pay excessive fees to the International Seabed Authority for redistribution to developing countries. &#8230; it will be required to transfer a large portion of royalties generated on the U.S. extended continental shelf to the International Seabed Authority, and, through the authority, to corrupt and undemocratic nations. &#8230; it will be exposed to climate change lawsuits and other environmental actions brought against it by other members of the convention.&#8221;
Former President Barack Obama wanted the U.S. to join the convention, <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/law-of-sea-convention#:~:text=The%201982%20Law%20of%20the,both%20natural%20and%20cultural%20resources." target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in 2013, “Only by joining the convention can we maximize legal certainty and best secure international recognition of our sovereign rights with respect to the U.S. extended continental shelf in the Arctic and elsewhere.”

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A deep-sea expedition group says that it has discovered what appears to be Amelia Earhart’s plane, which went missing after the famed pilot crashed somewhere in the South Pacific during her flight around the world.
Deep Sea Vision, a marine-robotics company, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amelia-earharts-aircraft-believed-found-184400252.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALYxVCiuhArz9_BAqhiigMqK1mZBmqF-nqfDYH3HfW6L8LC4z-aFEXvlQYzV3rDBQAJRXgURDFHiuaZ2AEDEq6-7NqWCPLUbKoG6Tp4FzPi_xnvEdmKE9u9eHBblU8EI3lZmuU-K9ROCi2a0wMOTQiidAUqofFOBTNiCGoym2fkc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Sunday that it has located what it believes to be Earhart’s Lockheed Electra, which went missing in 1937 after taking off from Papua New Guinea. Deep Sea Vision says that it believes Earhart and her navigator got off track because they forgot to take into account the International Date Line leading them to be off target and crash into the ocean.
“This is maybe the most exciting thing I’ll ever do in my life,” Deep See Vision CEO Tim Romeo <a href="https://www.wsj.com/science/amelia-earhart-lost-plane-found-843e9e9c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Wall Street Journal of a return trip to survey the wreckage. “I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.” 
The group posted photos of the wreck on Sunday, announcing news of the find.
“On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today,” Deep Sea Vision said.
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Romeo, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, said that the plane appears to be in good condition despite its being in the ocean for over 80 years.
&#8220;We always felt that she [Earhart] would have made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water, and the aircraft signature that we see in the sonar image suggests that may be the case,” he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to have made this discovery at the tail end of our expedition, and we plan to bring closure to a great American story.&#8221;
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The discovery of the craft was made after the group searched over 5,200 miles of ocean over a 90 day period. The group used the <a href="https://www.deepseavision.com/service-details#wreck-hunting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HUGIN 6000</a>, an autonomous underwater vehicle, to search massive portions of the ocean at a time.
Dorothy Cochrane, aeronautics curator at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Air and Space Museum, said that she was looking into Deep Sea Vision’s findings.
&#8220;We are intrigued with DSV&#8217;s initial imagery and believe it merits another expedition in the continuing search for Amelia Earhart&#8217;s aircraft near Howland Island,” she said.

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A Harvard physicist professor cited remnants from a meteor-like object to claim that they could have come from outside our solar system.
Professor Avi Loeb and a team of researchers retrieved roughly 700 tiny metallic spheres from an impact zone about 85 kilometers north of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. According to composition analysis executed by Stein Jacobsen and his team at Harvard University, 57 reportedly contain compositions that don’t match man-made or natural alloys.
“This is a historic discovery because it represents the first time that humans put their hand on materials from a large object that arrived to Earth from outside the solar system,” Loeb said on Tuesday.
“I was thrilled when Stein Jacobsen reported to me about it based on the results in his laboratory,” Loeb told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12456979/First-alien-object-recovered-Earth-Harvard-Avi-Loeb-says-hundreds-tiny-fragments-bottom-Pacific-Ocean-outside-solar-system.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>. “Stein is a highly conservative and professional geochemist with a worldwide reputation. He had no bias or agenda whatsoever and expected to find familiar spherules with solar system composition. But the data showed something new, never reported in the scientific literature. Science is guided by evidence.”
“For now, we wanted to check whether the materials are from outside the solar system,” he continued. “The success of the expedition illustrates the value of taking risks in science despite all odds as an opportunity for discovering new knowledge.”
According to Loeb’s non-peer reviewed<a href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> study</a>, the spherules contain beryllium, lanthanum and uranium, referred to in the study as “BeLaU.” “The ‘BeLaU’ abundance pattern is not found in control regions outside of IM1’s path and does not match commonly manufactured alloys or natural meteorites in the solar system,” the study theorized. “We suggest that the ‘BeLaU’ abundance pattern could have originated from a highly differentiated magma ocean of a planet with an iron core outside the solar system or from more exotic sources.”
The expedition to the South Pacific was announced back in January, with Loeb explaining the reasons for the trip in a post on Medium.
“Within a couple of months, I will be leading an expedition to collect the fragments of the first interstellar meteor,” Loeb <a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/we-are-going-to-visit-the-first-interstellar-meteor-8cf498d4d6fc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in January. “This meteor is the first near-Earth object ever detected by humans from outside the solar system. We have a dream team, including some of the most experienced and qualified professionals in ocean expeditions. We have complete design and manufacturing plans for the required sled, magnets, collection nets and mass spectrometer.”

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This is part 1 of a series documenting the U.S. Government’s response to UFOs. The segment originally aired on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/ufos-go-mainstream-4-30-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a>. 
For decades, the term UFO – or unidentified flying object – has conjured images of crazed conspiracy theorists, with conversations on the topic typically relegated to fringe corners of the internet. But that stigma has begun to collapse in recent years as it’s become clear that something unexplained is in our skies. 
Hundreds of credible, documented UFO cases have perplexed our leading scientists and military officials and prompted action from Congress and the Pentagon, which have deemed the issue a serious national security threat.
Now, after years of denying the legitimacy of UFOs, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged a decades-long effort to investigate and explain the phenomena.
<h2>Out Of The Shadows</h2>
UFOs have long held a unique place in American culture, with countless stories of strange craft in our skies told by those convinced they’d seen something unexplainable. 
But those tales were often backed up, at best, by grainy camcorder footage or blurry polaroid pictures, and, at worst, by the word of eyewitnesses. 
For decades, the federal government led the American people to believe they were staying out of the matter, lending credibility to those who believed stories of UFOs were nothing more than urban legend. But behind the scenes, officials at the highest levels of government had spent decades – and hundreds of millions of dollars – investigating the phenomena in secret. 
First, there was <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Blue Book</a>, a top secret Air Force initiative that investigated thousands of UFO reports from 1947 to 1969. According to internal documents, the project concluded most of the sightings involved conventional aircraft or spy planes, but 701 incidents were classified as “unexplained.” 
After Project Blue Book was disclosed to the public in 1976, it appeared the government had given up on its efforts to investigate the matter. But in 2017, a ground-breaking New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> revealed the existence of a modern-day Pentagon UFO program called AATIP — Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. 
AATIP was tasked with compiling evidence of what they deemed UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) and attempting to investigate and, more importantly, explain their origins. 
According to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who for years pushed for UFO research behind the scenes, much of the funding for AATIP came from “black money” programs to keep it from the public.
But in recent years, the public, and lawmakers alike, have begun to demand answers on what the government has found. 
<h2>Evidence Mounts</h2>
According to Pentagon officials, AATIP and other similar programs have turned their focus toward UFOs reported near military bases, studying service members who say they’d suffered physical effects after encounters with unidentified craft, and according to the New York Times, analyzing “metal alloys and other materials … recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.” 
Perhaps most notably, the government also began gathering video recordings and radar data from reported UFO incidents, including footage captured by military planes and ships. While the vast majority of those videos remain classified, some have leaked to the general public. 
Three such <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_M0hLlJ-Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">videos</a>, which leaked in 2017 and 2018, show U.S. pilots tracking craft that behaved in unusual ways, accelerating at incredible speeds and bewildering pilots in pursuit. 
As the videos circulated online there were questions about their legitimacy, but in 2020, the Pentagon confirmed they were authentic cases of “unidentified aerial phenomena.” 
In one of the videos from 2015, a craft moving at high speed is recorded flying into strong winds while spinning like a top in a way that pilots say seemed to defy the laws of known physics. 
Another video, which garnered the most attention, came from a UFO incident off the coast of San Diego. 
It was 2004 and the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was conducting training operations 100 miles off the coast when advanced radar systems began picking up “multiple anomalous aerial vehicles” operating over the horizon. 
Those craft were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> on multiple tracking systems descending 80,000 feet in seconds and hovering at 20,000 feet for hours on end before shooting back up into the sky and disappearing from radar. 
Navy Commander David Fravor oversaw the F-18 Squadron on the Nimitz and was dispatched with his co-pilot and another F-18 to investigate. When they arrived, Commander Fravor said the ocean was smooth, but there was a patch of “roiling whitewater” where waves were breaking on a large object that appeared to be just below the ocean surface.
Above that object was a smaller, 40-foot long “tic-tac shaped craft” darting back and forth erratically at high speed. According to Fravor, the craft had no wings, no markings, and no visible signs of propulsion. 
When Fravor descended to get closer to the object, it began ascending towards them, mimicking their flight pattern until it was within a short distance of the F-18. Then, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY&amp;t=386s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fravor and his co-pilot</a>, it vanished. 
Seconds after the craft disappeared, the USS Princeton – a Navy cruiser in the area – picked it up on radar 60 miles away. 
<a href="https://entertainermag.com/blog/2019/08/30/exploring-the-unbelievable-navy-veteran-kevin-day-to-speak-at-ufo-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to Navy Senior Chief Kevin Day, an operations specialist aboard the USS Princeton, the craft at one point descended 28,000 feet in .78 seconds, meaning it was traveling around 24,000 miles per hour. Despite its incredible rate of speed, Day says the object produced “no sonic booms.”
According to Day, the technology was far beyond anything in our arsenal. “If they had been hostile, there is absolutely nothing we could’ve done to protect ourselves from these things.”
When Fravor returned to the Nimitz, another F-18 squadron was scrambled in pursuit of the object and was able to capture it briefly on the plane’s imaging system, before it disappeared again. 
<h2>“Beyond Anything We’re Capable Of”</h2>
According to Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Intelligence, those incidents are just the tip of the UFO iceberg. 
Mellon served under Presidents Clinton and Bush and says the military has hundreds of similar videos and reports that show craft with technology far exceeding our own, making high-speed turns at a right angle, hovering totally stationary in high winds above the open ocean for hours on end, and climbing tens of thousands of feet in seconds.
“These vehicles seem to have unlimited loiter time, which we don’t have. … Then the acceleration is beyond — far beyond anything that we’re capable of … there’s nothing we can build that can endure that amount of force and acceleration,” Mellon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygB4EZ7ggig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, in a “60 Minutes” interview in 2021.
Lue Elizondo, the man who spent years heading up AATIP at the Pentagon, has offered similar accounts.
“Over the past several decades we in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community have been noticing things in our airspace that don’t have wings, they don’t have cockpits, they don’t even have an obvious sign of propulsion, and yet still they’re able to defy the natural effects of earth’s gravity,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA-h3dIeD_A&amp;t=119s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Elizondo.
Cabot Phillips is the Senior Editor at the Daily Wire. He can be heard regularly on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/ufos-go-mainstream-4-30-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a> podcast.

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A couple claiming they were left stranded in the ocean off a Hawaiian island, forcing them to swim half a mile to land, is suing a Hawaii tour company.
Alexander Burckle and his wife, Elizabeth Webster, who had snorkeled before, have filed a lawsuit against Sail Maui. They had joined 42 other passengers for a snorkeling trip in September 2021 that left Lahaina Harbor in Maui. They claim in the lawsuit that the passengers were informed the boat would remain anchored for an hour in the first ocean location before it sailed on, as the passengers were permitted to swim in the ocean. Passengers returned to the boat at different times, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11824147/California-couple-abandoned-snorkeling-trip-forced-swim-shore-sue-tour-company.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the lawsuit, which said the waves were eight feet high.
“It can be really rough water even for people that are experienced in the ocean, much less visitors who may not have any ocean experience or especially not have experience in Hawaiian waters,” the couple’s attorney, Jared A. Washkowitz, told <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pocharaponneammanee/lawsuit-hawaii-snorkeling-ocean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buzzfeed News</a>.
The lawsuit states that one passenger reported the couple missing when she reboarded the boat, but a crew member said the couple was aboard. The suit alleges three head counts were made, and the first two numbered 42 passengers but the third numbered 44 as the first mate did not make the passengers remain still, instead counting them as they wandered about.
&#8220;Plaintiffs realized the Vessel had left them and was not coming back for them, and they decided that their only option for survival at that point was to return to shore,” the lawsuit claims, adding that the couple “were beginning to panic and were struggling to swim in the ocean conditions.”
The couple swam for half a mile to the island of Lanai, the lawsuit states, fatigued and dehydrated, managing to write “SOS” and “HELP” in the sand.
Local residents then came to their aid. The lawsuit claims that when the couple contacted the tour company, no one was aware they had gone missing.
“It&#8217;s kind of scary to think what would&#8217;ve happened if they hadn&#8217;t made it,” Washkowitz said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure the company would&#8217;ve known about it until family members started asking about it. It&#8217;s just kind of a scary thought.”
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“They&#8217;re not giving any statements because they don&#8217;t want to have to relive the incident over and over again,” he added. “They&#8217;re both getting psychological treatment. They have anxiety and stress from the incident, and they&#8217;re coping the best they can.”
Jessica Herbert, a fellow passenger on the snorkeling tour, told Good Morning America that the crew members of the boat told guests “everybody was on &#8230; All accounted for, we started to take off, nobody&#8217;s looking behind them.”

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A passenger who was aboard the mid-December United Airlines flight that plunged to within feet of the Pacific Ocean came forth to discuss what the terrifying experience was like.
On December 18, Rod Williams II, his wife and two young children had seats near the back of United flight 1722 bound from Maui, Hawaii, to San Francisco, California. The plane had taken off from Maui and reached 2,200 feet before it suddenly dropped more than 1,400 feet in the midst of an intense storm.
“It felt like you were climbing to the top of a roller coaster. It was at that point,” Williams, who studied aviation in college, told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/united-777-plunge-takeoff-hawaii/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. “There were a number of screams on the plane. Everybody knew that something was out of the ordinary, or at least that this was not normal.”
According to <a href="https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/united-maui-dive-ua1722-close-call/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Air Current</a>, the harrowing dive reached a descent rate of almost 8,600 feet per minute.
Williams and his wife were seated with their 10-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son between them.
“When the plane started to nosedive, multiple screams are being let out, at that point,” Williams said. “You’re trying your best to maintain your composure – there’s obviously kids on the flight – nobody really knows what’s going on, but at the same time, you’re concerned. You don’t know if this is an issue, but it was certainly out of the ordinary.”
“It’s tense, you don’t really have a chance to speak or to conjure up words, you’re just kind of gripping the seat and praying under your breath,” he added. “I asked her later and sure enough … we were praying for a miracle, because we felt like this could be it.”
Eight weeks after the flight, Williams’ father showed him reports on the flight. “Now that I know, statistically what had happened, and that we were about 5 to 5.2 seconds from hitting the water, you know, I&#8217;m definitely counting my blessings,” he said. “I&#8217;m reminded that when my wife and I pray together before the flights that, you know, there&#8217;s a God that&#8217;s here in that.”
After the flight successfully landed in San Francisco, the family flew home to Ohio. The United flight, a Boeing that could hold 364 passengers, left for Chicago two and a half hours later.
“You read about these things, but then when you get to experience it, it’s just, sobering, you know. I’m very thankful to be here today,” he concluded.

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A study published last week is showing how seaweed farming could be beneficial to the globe for a variety of reasons, but some concerns may still remain.
The new kind of farming could create a situation in which greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced, as well as cut back on the need for crops that are grown on the earth, according to the study, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01043-y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> in Nature Sustainability.
The study noted that the researchers have estimated that around 650 million hectares of ocean around the world could sustain seaweed farms. The biggest regions would be in Indonesia and Australia, per <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/27/food-feed-and-fuel-global-seaweed-industry-could-reduce-land-needed-for-farming-by-110m-hectares-study-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>.
“Cultivating seaweeds for food, feed and fuel within even a fraction of the 650m hectares of suitable ocean could have profound benefits to land use, emissions reduction, water and fertiliser use,” the authors reportedly wrote, per The Guardian.
Seaweed grown in this large area of the ocean can be used as food for human beings, as well as for livestock like cattle. It can also be used for alternative energy resources, according to the study, per <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/27/food-feed-and-fuel-global-seaweed-industry-could-reduce-land-needed-for-farming-by-110m-hectares-study-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>.
The researchers indicated that reducing methane emissions by using red Asparagopsis seaweed on cows could cut back 2.6 billion tons of CO2-equivalent each year by the year 2050. Giving dairy cows seaweed, such as Asparagopsis taxiformis, to eat can aid in bringing down the levels of methane that they produce when they burp. The methane is <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14062022/cow-seaweed-methane/#:~:text=Brominata%20is%20made%20of%20a,they%20burp,%20called%20enteric%20methane." target="_blank" rel="noopener">known</a> as enteric methane, which is a greenhouse gas.
The researchers also noted that if humans start to eat more seaweed, and it makes up 10% of their diets, then it could save up to 110 million land hectares, which is 272 million acres. The Guardian pointed out that this size is twice as large as the country of France.
“In one scenario where we substituted 10% of human diets globally with seaweed products, the development of 110 million hectares of land for farming could be prevented,” Ph.D. Candidate Scott Spillias of the University of Queensland, discussed, per <a href="https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/growing-in-the-ocean-developing-seaweed-farming-pegged-as-sustainable-alternative-to-land-based-agriculture.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Food Ingredients First</a>.
“People around the world are looking at the ocean as this big ‘untapped’ resource and asking if we should be using more of it,” Spillias said.
The specialists also reportedly noted that seaweed farming could be bad for ocean creatures, so that will have to be examined and evened out with the good that could come from a worldwide seaweed farming initiative.
“Converting even a few million hectares means a huge amount of development,” Spillias said. “We are modifying habitats and introducing materials to places where we haven’t before. A lot of seaweed farming now is using plastic ropes and nets and we know the impacts of plastic on the ocean. If this is done on a large scale we need to find better materials.”
“Marine industries do not have a great reputation on human rights and if we’re farming seaweed largely out of sight, then we need to think of the people in these industries and make sure they’re being fairly treated,” he said.
There could also be a health question when it comes to the food. A 2019 study <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6551690/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> by the National Institute of Health found that edible seaweeds have health benefits and nutritional properties. However, it noted, if such food is going to aid in future food security for the entire world, “legislative measures to ensure monitoring and labeling of food products are needed to safeguard against excessive intakes of salt, iodine, and heavy metals.”

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Hundreds of Yeti coolers have been washing up on the coast of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alaska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alaska</a> and elsewhere a year after they spilled from the cargo ship transporting them. 
The cargo ship, Zim Kingston, was traveling from South Korea to Vancouver when it got caught in a storm. 109 shipping containers fell off the ship filled with urinal mats, refrigerators, toys, and 1,600 Yeti coolers. Lucky bystanders and people hunting for the coolers have been finding them since late last year.
“The Yetis are still out there,” oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer said. “The coolers will keep circling the world. You’ll be getting reports of people finding Yetis for the next 30 years.”
In October 2021, the Zim Kingston was near the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which is between Washington state and Vancouver Island, when it encountered waves of 20 feet and wind speeds up to 40 knots, according to <a href="https://maritime-executive.com/article/zim-kingston-s-lost-cargo-included-a-present-for-beachcombers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Maritime Executive</a>. Shortly after the rough seas threw containers overboard, the ship <a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/cargo-ship-was-loitering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caught</a> fire, causing it to lose two more.
“The ship rolled 35 degrees and, with the height that those containers are on a container ship, it puts a lot of stress on the tie-downs,” Laird Hall of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Puget Sound vessel traffic service <a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/cargo-ship-was-loitering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.
The fire onboard took a week to put out, <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-stuck-at-sea-the-zim-kingston-and-its-unlucky-cargo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Globe And Mail. This was partly due to the hazardous materials that were in some of the shipping containers. Despite this, the ship was able to be saved along with most of the cargo.
The coolers appear to be the most treasured find from the ship, ranging in price from $250 to $750. Many of them are in near-mint condition, according to the Wall Street Journal. Most of the coolers have ended up in Alaska, where some residents now search for them as a hobby. One man told the outlet he discovered 19 that had washed up while searching in his plane. Another couple that found one said the exterior was “lightly abused, but the inside was in mint condition.”
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These <a href="https://twitter.com/YETICoolers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YETICoolers</a> were all found on beaches near Seward, Alaska: ~1,000 miles from where the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZimKingston?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZimKingston</a> spilled containers off WA’s Olympic Peninsula. Pics courtesy Duke Marolf. 4/n <a href="https://t.co/Z9oLhpDezy">pic.twitter.com/Z9oLhpDezy</a>
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Along with coolers washing up in Seattle, two were reportedly found In Hawaii, roughly 2,500 miles away from where they went overboard. Ebbesmeyer, who is an expert in the study of how ocean debris travels on currents, says, “The coolers are being found exactly where they should be.” He estimates that since the goods were tossed from the ship, they have traveled 7 miles a day. Four shipping containers washed up 200 miles north of the spillage site just five days after the event, according to <a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/cargo-ship-was-loitering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KUOW</a>.
Yeti President and CEO Matt Reintjes said that the company lost 1,600 coolers in the incident, but he hopes the “near-new” coolers are put to “good use.”

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The eruption of Hawaii’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawaii-volcano-threatens-to-cutoff-major-highway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mauna Loa volcano</a> has led to the National Guard being activated over concerns regarding lava moving closer to a major commuter highway.
The volcano has been spewing lava for ten days. The lava is now less than two miles from the Daniel K. Inouye Highway, but there is still no threat “to any communities at this time,” <a href="https://hawaiicountygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/5865229bcba74020992b372ef18b6f17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the County of Hawaii Hazard Impact Map website. The highway is a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/06/mauna-loa-eruption-hawaii-state-national-guard/10843029002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quick</a> way to travel from the two sides of the island.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that “the flow front was about 1.93 mi (3.1 km) from the Daniel K. Inouye Highway (Saddle Road).”
The state’s Emergency Management Agency reported Monday evening that the National Guard had been activated.
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“Hawaii&#8217;s Defense Department said outgoing Gov. David Ige and Maj. General Kenneth Hara activated 20 Hawai&#8217;i National Guard service members on Monday and placed them on active duty to assist Hawai&#8217;i County with traffic control and other roles in the Mauna Loa eruption,” the agency said on Twitter.
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Hawaii&#39;s Defense Department said outgoing Gov. David Ige and Maj. General Kenneth Hara activated 20 Hawai&#39;i National Guard service members on Monday and placed them on active duty to assist Hawai&#39;i County with traffic control and other roles in the Mauna Loa eruption. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaunaLoa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaunaLoa</a>
&mdash; Hawaii EMA (@Hawaii_EMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hawaii_EMA/status/1599914861987004418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The flow of lava is also speeding up, the survey pointed out. “During the past 24 hours, the lava flow advanced at an average rate of about 68 feet per hour […] about twice the rate for the past several days. Over shorter periods, the advance rate varied from 62 to 90 feet per hour,” it added.
However, when the lava reaches a flat area, “lava flows advance more slowly, spread out, and inflate,” it noted.
The spectacle has drawn observers and tourists who want to see the eruption of the volcano. Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on the planet and started erupting last month on November 27 for the first <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/06/hawaii-activates-national-guard-mauna-loa-lava-nears-daniel-k-inouye/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">time</a> in almost forty years. Kilauea is a volcano that is close by and has also been erupting over the past year.
The entire Daniel K. Inouye Highway is open, but places next to the highway are shut down and not available to the public, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/06/hawaii-activates-national-guard-mauna-loa-lava-nears-daniel-k-inouye/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth on Monday.
“With the lava being where it’s at, we feel pretty certain that the lava won’t impact any populated areas,” Roth said at a Monday press conference. “There’s a lot of (moving) pieces. How fast it’s moving. How close it’s gonna come to the highway. How long it will take if there’s any dangers that we’re seeing.”
Whether or not the lava will get to the highway is mainly based on the duration of the volcano&#8217;s eruption.
“We don’t know how long this eruption is going to last, and that will dictate whether or not the highway becomes more threatened,” Natalia Deligne, a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/us/mauna-loa-highway-kilauea-eruption-tuesday/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/dillon-burroughs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dillon Burroughs</a> contributed to this report.

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Hawaii National Guard Activated As Mauna Loa Volcano Continues To Erupt

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Natural Disaster

The Ocean Cleanup Project is taking on the massive goal of eliminating plastic from the ocean by going straight to sea and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-scientists-say-robot-fish-can-devour-ocean-plastics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extracting the trash</a>.
Joost Dubois, the director of communications, spoke to The Daily Wire about the project, its unique nature, setbacks, and what it hopes to accomplish.
The Ocean Project <a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> on its website that millions of tons of plastic go into oceans each year, with most of it coming from rivers. Some of the plastic makes its way out to sea, and is trapped in currents where other plastic is collecting in massive garbage patches.
The goal of the project is to get rid of 90% of the world’s ocean plastic by 2040, which Dubois said is an ambition, “but [a] possible goal.”
The project <a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes</a> into the ocean and puts cleanup systems in regions where currents circulate trash and create the garbage patches. They use a specific speed to catch the plastic in the system, and then pull the trash from the ocean. Once they have it on board, they bring it back to land in order to turn it into recycled products.
There have also been several setbacks along the way, but the group has learned to adapt.
Dubois explained a time when the system broke, creating a potentially massive problem, and they had to learn from the experience.
“The first ocean system we launched in September 2018 broke in December of the same year due to mechanical failure. So we used a plastic floater in that system,” he said, adding, that &#8220;it really was a fatigue failure of the pipe.&#8221;
&#8220;During the watch from the bridge, it was noticed that suddenly a part of the system was floating away, drifting away. And it was after it had broken off,” he said.
However, when setbacks come, they adapt.
“A failure is not always a failure. We learn from it. We try to schedule our learning. And sometimes, when the system broke, for example, we call that an unscheduled learning opportunity. But we definitely learned from [it],” he noted.
Garbage patches in the ocean have the potential to have a negative effect on the health of humans, marine life, as well as the economies of the world.
Two 2014 reports from the United Nations <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2014/06/471492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that plastic trash creates $13 billion in financial harm each year to marine life.
Discussing the UN report, Dubois added, “And that is a combination of different types of damage. So that&#8217;s really the economic side. It&#8217;s shipping, it&#8217;s tourism, it’s cleanup costs that are currently connected to marine debris.&#8221; He also explained how ghost <a href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/our-oceans-are-haunted-by-ghost-nets-why-that-s-scary-and-what-we-can-do--24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nets</a>, or deserted fishing nets, can get caught in boats, as well.
Ocean plastic could also have devastating and unforeseen impacts on people’s health.
He discussed &#8220;a large group of marine animals that are currently under threat related to plastic pollution,” Joost said, adding that “because this plastic is being mistaken for food by fish and other marine life, it ends up in the food chain and eventually becomes part of our diet.”
The Ocean Cleanup turns its plastic into products to sell, such as sunglasses, which it took to market.
&#8220;I think one of the things we&#8217;ve always had as part of our ambition is that we would like to do something with the plastic that we collect to bring it back to shore and try to come up with an approach that would minimize the chance of it ever getting back in the ocean,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So we do work hard to get it recycled rather than landfill it or incinerate it. And that is not easy, but it&#8217;s also not impossible.&#8221;
He also said that the Ocean Cleanup is unique in its approach of recycling in that its plastic is verified as having truly come from the ocean.
&#8220;We hope to prevent [&#8230;] our ocean plastic from [being] mistaken for something else which is flooding the markets right now,&#8221; he said.
He said other companies sell products that they allege is made from ocean plastic, but their plastic does not have the same kind of strict validation process that The Ocean Cleanup’s trash goes through.
&#8220;We built this quite elaborate scheme to make sure that [if] you buy our stuff that you at least know for sure that it is stuff that we collected from the middle of the ocean,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We&#8217;re thousands of miles away from shore where we operate. So we think that is worth some special attention and pricing.&#8221;
The ambitions of the project are two-fold. It seeks to not only use its technology to remove plastic from the oceans, but it also plans to “intercept plastic in rivers before it reaches the oceans,” according to its website. It will do this by heading to 1,000 rivers across the globe and stopping 80% of river plastic from ending up in the seas. It plans to achieve this goal five years after initiating the process.
The project is a passionate attempt to do some good in the world.
Dubois said that they are a non-typical nonprofit, adding, “We don&#8217;t collect money to sustain ourselves. We really collect money to get this fixed and then we go and do something else.&#8221;

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An underwater volcano that erupted earlier this year is believed to be the “largest ever recorded” with modern equipment, researchers <a href="https://niwa.co.nz/news/tonga-eruption-confirmed-as-largest-ever-recorded" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> this week.
On January 15, 2022 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in the Tongan archipelago, triggering tsunami waves and sending a sonic boom that could be heard throughout the world. Since then, a team of scientists have been investigating the historic eruption, concluding that it turned out to be one for the record books. 
“The eruption reached record heights, being the first we’ve ever seen to break through into the mesosphere,” <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/tongan-volcano-eruption-largest-recorded-zealand-scientists/story?id=93708595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) marine geologist Kevin Mackay. “It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,” he added.
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“It was a shotgun blast directly into the sky”. 💥
NIWA scientists have confirmed January’s eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano was the largest ever recorded with modern technology. 🌋
🎥 Watch the full video here ➡️ <a href="https://t.co/XBEIjuWE7C">https://t.co/XBEIjuWE7C</a> <a href="https://t.co/BMwcp0YP7C">pic.twitter.com/BMwcp0YP7C</a>
&mdash; NIWA (@niwa_nz) <a href="https://twitter.com/niwa_nz/status/1594483275493359616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The eruption in the South Pacific Ocean displaced 10 cubic kilometers of seafloor, which is equal to 2.6 million Olympic sized swimming pools, according to the NIWA. According to their findings, 75% of that material ended up within 20 kilometers of the volcano, meaning much of it remains unaccounted for.
“The volume of this ‘shotgun’ plume is estimated to be 1.9 [cubic kilometers] of material, which has been circulating in our atmosphere for months, causing the stunning sunsets we saw following the eruption,” Mackay said. The group added that the volcano’s caldera, or crater, is now 700 meters deeper than it was prior to the eruption.
NASA Earth Observatory <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149367/dramatic-changes-at-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that the blast from the volcanic eruption “released hundreds of times the equivalent mechanical energy” of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The powerful blast was <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/12/asia/tonga-eruption-biggest-in-more-a-century-scn/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heard</a> all the way in Alaska, 6,000 miles away.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/NASAEarth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASAEarth</a> scientists are tracking the effects of the Jan. 15 volcanic eruption in Tonga and sharing satellite data with disaster response agencies: <a href="https://t.co/LKO6BWlFkq">https://t.co/LKO6BWlFkq</a> <a href="https://t.co/6KhVMImRh3">pic.twitter.com/6KhVMImRh3</a>
&mdash; NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1483970727913078787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Pyroclastic flows, which were said to be one of the great unknowns from the eruption, “are currents made up of dense lava, volcanic ash, and gases which can reach temperatures of 1,000 [degrees celsius] and speeds of 700km/hr,” according to NIWA. Researchers collected 150 sediment cores that were sent to the University of Otago in New Zealand and the National Oceanographic Center in the United Kingdom, revealing deposits up to 80 kilometers away from the volcano.
These are the first pyroclastic flows of this magnitude, according to Mackay. “It’s the interaction with water that made this event so unprecedented. It’s still speculation but the latest science shows that this phenomenon may be more exaggerated under water,” he said.
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🧵 Here are some amazing facts about the eruption ⬇️
🌋 Most of the material was deposited within 20kms of the volcano. But more than three cubic kilometres appears to have been shot up to 58km into the sky – causing the stunning sunsets we’ve been seeing.
📸 Pununu Tukuafu <a href="https://t.co/QoYKhXF22X">pic.twitter.com/QoYKhXF22X</a>
&mdash; NIWA (@niwa_nz) <a href="https://twitter.com/niwa_nz/status/1594483285035393024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The tsunami waves that were created by the blast reached 15 meters high when they hit parts of Tonga, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60039542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">devastating</a> the small South Pacific kingdom and leaving it covered in volcanic ash. 1,500 people were displaced and four were killed throughout the Tongan islands, according to the United States Geological Survey, who also noted that damage was recorded in Fiji, Hawaii, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, and California.
“While this eruption was large – one of the biggest since Krakatoa in 1883 – there have been others of similar magnitude since then that didn’t behave in the same way,” Mackay said, adding that “the difference here is that it’s an underwater volcano and it’s also part of the reason we got such big tsunami waves.”

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