Strengthening Ocean Conservation Globally by Connecting People, Telling Stories, Sharing Science
The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinator of the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins initiative – has launched new guidelines to help dive and snorkel operators assess when to conduct …
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Live oaks, sycamores top ranking of trees that mitigate effects of pollution, climate change It’s easy to say “just plant more trees” to mitigate air pollution. But how? Where? And …
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Havenworth Coastal Conservation (HCC), based in Palmetto, has been awarded a grant by the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) to study the endangered smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) in the Tampa Bay …
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Engineers at Rice lead study of how polystyrene contributes to the crisis The Styrofoam container that holds your takeout cheeseburger may contribute to the population’s growing resistance to antibiotics. According …
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The companies successfully demonstrated ship-based operations for aerial surveillance and search and rescue missions in the open ocean Vast, remote, and often subjected to dangerous conditions, the world’s oceans are …
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Whale sharks, an endangered species, are the world’s largest fish More than 400 individual whale sharks were identified from Madagascar over a five-year study Ecotourism, based on swimming with these …
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Islands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots. The impacts of invasive alien species, habitat loss and climate change are compounded in small island nations, which are highly …
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Maritime industries, government agencies, researchers and members of the public will have access to improved oceanographic data through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal …
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This week, the U.S. House of Representatives released a text of the draft reconciliation bill revealing Congress is on track to make the largest investment in northwest hatchery infrastructure on record that …
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Eight years after the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (WIM) was established, efforts to mobilise finance for countries facing catastrophic and unavoidable climate change impacts remain stalled. A new …
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