Reef-World Launches Green Fins Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star CleanUp Guideline
The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinator of the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins initiative – has launched new guidelines[…]
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Category: Issue 80 – January 2022
RiceUNews: ‘Super Trees’ May Help Save Houston … and Beyond
Live oaks, sycamores top ranking of trees that mitigate effects of pollution, climate change It’s easy to say “just plant[…]
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SAWFISH NEWS: Disney Conservation Fund Helps Local Organization Studying Endangered Sawfish in Tampa Bay
Havenworth Coastal Conservation (HCC), based in Palmetto, has been awarded a grant by the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) to study[…]
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RiceUNews: Microplastic Pollution Aids Antibiotic Resistance
Engineers at Rice lead study of how polystyrene contributes to the crisis The Styrofoam container that holds your takeout cheeseburger[…]
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SwissDrones and CLS Group Deploy SDO 50 V2 Unmanned Helicopter for Maritime Operations
The companies successfully demonstrated ship-based operations for aerial surveillance and search and rescue missions in the open ocean Vast, remote,[…]
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New Study Highlights Madagascar As a Global Hotspot for Endangered Whale Shark
Whale sharks, an endangered species, are the world’s largest fish More than 400 individual whale sharks were identified from Madagascar[…]
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Island Conservationists Identify Key Barriers to Meeting Biodiversity Targets
Islands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots. The impacts of invasive alien species, habitat loss and climate[…]
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MARACOOS, MARCO to Expand Ocean Mapping and Research Partnership
Maritime industries, government agencies, researchers and members of the public will have access to improved oceanographic data through a memorandum[…]
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Congress on Track to Approve Catastrophic Investment in Northwest Hatcheries, Undermining Wild Salmon Recovery
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives released a text of the draft reconciliation bill revealing Congress is on track to make[…]
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SEI Analysis Shows How COP26 Can Mobilise Loss & Damage Finance Right Away
Eight years after the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (WIM) was established, efforts to mobilise finance for countries[…]
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