Ella Herbert and Michael Brand discuss their experience at the Submarine Networks World Conference in Singapore, not only as students but as speakers at the conference as well. They tackle the most relevant sustainability issues covered among industry professionals at the conference in panels and presentations, including carbon emissions, speculation and debate over the impact of AI and Power, and the clamor for industry and policy alignment.

In this article, we interviewed our team members, including researchers and industry participants, and had them explain why our work is important to them.

In this column, we are launching a new series in which we have a undergraduate or young member of our research team interview members of the industry. In this case, Isabelle Cherry -- an undergraduate researcher -- interviews Alwyn De Plessis of Mertech Marine about recovery and recycling.

In this editorial in Sea Technology Magazine, two of our researchers summarize and advertise our findings from the Best Practices Report, highlighting emergent ocean technologies for the magazine's audience.

In this editorial in TelecomArabiaReview.com, our global research team amplifies our work so far and calls for more participation among the cable industry in the MENA region.

We explore the most common metric used for sustainability in data centers and cable landing stations -- power usage effectiveness (PUE) -- and details its usefulness and limitations for measuring sustainability for the subsea industry.

In this special feature, our team explores the role of environmental regulation in encouraging or preventing subsea cable recovery and recycling, a key strategy for the sustainability of the industry overall.

Our undergraduate researchers describe their experience at PTC '24, what they learned about sustainability, and offer insight into the younger generation's passion for a sustainable future.

For this month's column, we report on our experience at COP28 and the Egypt SubOptic Symposium and describe the sustainability efforts and subsea industry in the MENA region.

In this column, we evaluate the IMO and European Commission's new marine regulations and provide guidance for marine operators on how to consider this regulation and future sustainable development.

In this iteration of our column, we explore the world of carbon offsets and offer guidance for subsea companies interested in using offsets or carbon removals to reduce their net emissions.

The SubOptic Foundation Congress on Sustainability made subsea history as the first intentional gathering of members from across sectors and around the world to discuss metrics for sustainability in the subsea cable industry. This article discusses the conversations that took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sustainability was a hot topic at this year’s Pacific Telecommunications Conference. This article highlights three takeaways about sustainable practices and development: a focus on cooperation and collaboration, the need for immediate actions that build toward long-term sustainability, and a call for better metrics and data sharing.

This month’s Sustainable Subsea column asks: how have certain locations emerged as cable hubs, and how did these cable connections become intertwined with the data center landscape? Given that companies are increasingly pursuing net-zero goals, how can networks of the future be connected to renewable energy developments?

The subsea cable industry depends on a fuel-intensive marine fleet to install, maintain, and repair cables around the globe. Yet this fleet is almost entirely absent when it comes to discussions of the environmental impact of digital media technologies. For this article, we interviewed port authorities around the world to better understand their capacity to reduce emissions and pave the way for a more sustainable future.

In this article, we describe why these debates have reached an impasse and how this lack of consensus can be expected to continue. We argue that the subsea cable industry’s smaller carbon footprint, high reliability, and low environmental impacts could be leveraged to create a lower-carbon internet infrastructure as a whole.

This column article discusses how Universal Jointing (UJ) can serve as a model for collaboration and points out five areas where progress can be made: systems design and engineering; survey; system manufacture and installation; operations; and life cycle. We also argue that sharing data across the industry can actually be helpful from a business perspective.

For our third “Sustainable Subsea” column in SubTel Forum, we discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on travel across the subsea industry to explore the extent in which stakeholders will continue to rely on the new modalities of remote work.

In “Energy + Communications: Bringing together Two Worlds at the Cable Landing Station,” we discuss the ways cable landing stations can develop more sustainable practices.

Our first article in SubTel Forum's new “Sustainable Subsea” column, “A Blue Industry Going Green” highlights the sustainability initiatives of three subsea cable companies.

Featured in Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy's The Cost of Convenience on September 2021.