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, by Marine science & policy experts
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The deep sea is home to a significant proportion of Earth’s biodiversity, with most species yet to be discovered. The richness and diversity of organisms in the deep sea supports ecosystem processes necessary for the (…)
, by WATTS Jonathan
One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand.
A short bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South Pacific to a little-known institution in the Caribbean is about to change the world. Few (…)
, by VANAIK Achin
Exclusive Economic Zones have encouraged the process of privatising the seas, at the cost of protecting the oceanic environment.
In the context of the recent China-India clashes, many Indian commentators sought to emphasise what they felt were the more general duplicities of China’s strategic (…)
, by GREENBERG Paul, WORM Boris
ON Friday we humans observed V-E Day, the end to one part of a global catastrophe that cost the planet at least 60 million lives. But if we were fish, we would have marked the day differently — as the beginning of a campaign of violence against our taxonomic classes, one that has resulted in (…)
, by Science, ZIMMER Carl
Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean
REVIEW
Douglas J. McCauley,*, Malin L. Pinsky, Stephen R. Palumbi, James A. Estes, Francis H. Joyce, Robert R. Warner
For Author Affiliations see the original
SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine (…)
, by BARBESGAARD Mads Christian, BUXTON Nick, PEDERSEN Carsten
Not only are the small-scale fisher communities best placed to ensure food sovereignty, but they are also the starting point for any serious transition towards an ecologically and socially just food regime. We need a revolution to bring the oceans back into the global commons.
70 years ago, (…)
, by LACURCI Jenna
The world’s oceans need saving from overfishing and pollution, a new report says, as this “failed state” is rapidly declining, and an independent panel behind the report announced Tuesday that urgent action is needed within the next five years.
The Global Ocean Commission (GOC), a group of (…)
, by KOLBERT Elizabeth
“Saved by the Sea: A Love Story with Fish” (St. Martin’s; $25.99); David Helvarg; “Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse” (University of British Columbia; $94); “Four Fish : The Future of the Last Wild Food”, Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press ; $25.95).
The (…)
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