SEVENSEAS Travel Magazine — No. 136 September 2026

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The ice sheet has now lost mass for thirty consecutive years, while the sovereignty argument runs on security and minerals. The other ledger: narwhals that stop feeding eight kilometres from a ship, and a Ramsar wetland with a drilling programme aimed at it.

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Aerial surveys put roughly 16,000 fin, humpback and common minke whales along a coast where all three were once unusual sightings. Heide-Jørgensen and colleagues attribute the shift to capelin following warmer water, and read it as a regime change rather than a recovery.

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Screening measurements in the port averaged 60,000 to 70,000 ultrafine particles per cubic centimetre, with one reading at 212,000. The Clean Arctic Alliance released the figures, which are not peer reviewed and do not apportion the pollution between ships, port machinery and road traffic.

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Three new airports, a first tourism law and 179,873 visitors in 2025, a number Visit Greenland flags as soft. There is no road between any two towns, and that single fact shapes every price and most of the arguments the country is having about tourism.

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The largest global assessment of reef condition yet assembled reports that the interval between bleaching events is closing faster than reefs can rebuild in it. The constraint it identifies is recovery time, not heat alone.

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A before-and-after genomic record across 349 colonies shows selection acting on a reef within one generation of the 2019 heat wave. The authors are explicit that tolerance proved polygenic and habitat specific, and that this is not a recovery plan.

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Sequencing resolves a naming question left open since 1850 across the Indo-Pacific. Curtin University reports the correction, which changes how these rock oysters should be recorded in fisheries and monitoring data.

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At its ninth meeting the Roundtable reviewed progress on MSC certification conditions, endorsed a joint position statement to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, and began preparing members for electronic monitoring. Reported by Ocean Outcomes, republished with permission.

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The CW Summit runs 2 to 4 February 2027 in Corpus Christi, Texas, co-hosted by the Oceans and Wildlife Institute and the Wildlife Restoration Foundation, with a field trip to the port’s wildlife rescue operations. Registration and presenter applications are open.

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A new book from Bloomsbury traces the California fisheries that built an industry and the stocks they emptied, and what that history still explains about how fisheries are managed now.

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The third edition runs 18 to 21 September during Climate Week NYC, with 52 films and 33 premieres. Opening night follows a Tuscan fisherman sinking carved marble onto the seabed to snag illegal trawl nets.

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Te Huika Mason of Curtin University spent thirteen days aboard RV Investigator between Fremantle and Hobart, one of twenty students on the CAPSTAN sea training programme, and writes about what a working research vessel settled that a classroom could not.