Lavenia Ratnarajah, Andrew Bowie, and Indi Hodgson-Johnston, "Bottoms up: how whale poop helps feed the ocean," The Conversation, August 4, 2014, ➝.
F. Olsgard, et al., “Effects of bottom trawling on ecosystem functioning,” Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 366 (2008): 123–133.
Ricardo O. Amoroso, et al., "Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the World’s continental shelves," PNAS 115, no. 43 (2018): E10275–E10282.
This technology involves hoovering up the minerals from the seabed or using a hydraulic bucket system to lift the minerals to the surface. See Wil S. Hylton, “History’s largest mining operation is about to begin,” The Atlantic, January/February 2020, ➝.
Warren Cornwall, “Mountains hidden in the deep sea are biological hotspots. Will mining ruin them?” Science, September 12, 2019, ➝.
Olive Heffernan, “Deep-sea dilemma,” Nature 571 (2019): 465–468, ➝.
Terence P. Scoffin, “The conditions of growth of the Wenlock reefs of Shropshire (England),” Sedimentology 17, no. 3–4 (December 1971): 173–219.
Hart’s vision has, too, uncommonly deep and wide roots—one inspiration was the work of the Japanese activist, pacifist and upholder of womens’ rights Toyohiko Kagawa, who probed deeply into the nature of human society as well as being a pioneer of forest farming. Robert A. de J. Hart, Forest Gardening: Rediscovering Nature and Community in a Post-Industrial Age (Dartington Hall: Green Earth Books, 1991, 1996).
Organisations like Bug Life are working hard to raise awareness about the implications of “insect decline.” See Pedro Cardoso, et al. “Scientists warning to humanity on insect extinctions”, Biological Conservation 242 (February 2020): 108426; Michael Samways, et al., “Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects,” Biological Conservation 242 (February 2020): 108427.
As Surfers Against Sewage have continued to do, doggedly, after the glare of publicity faded from David Attenborough’s magnificent if brief demonstration of the malign effects of ocean plastic. ➝
"Climate change: Carbon-reducing seagrass planted off Welsh coast," BBC, March 10, 2020, ➝.
Kelp Forest Restoration Project, "Why Restore Kelp Forests?" The Bay Foundation, ➝.
Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space in Venice by Territorial Agency and its manifestation on Ocean Archive.