Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
The Economist Intelligence Unit Fisheries & Aquaculture
The role of aquatic foods – animals and plants cultivated or captured in marine and freshwater systems – in sustainable food systems is often underappreciated. The Blue Food Assessment team is looking to put that right, and commercial examples of how to make aquatic foods more sustainable in practice will help to make the case.
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Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Energy Solutions
Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades.
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Coastal News Today
On this two-part episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham introduce Admiral Tim Gallaudet, host of the new "American Blue Economy Podcast," coming out this month on ASPN.
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Lou Cooperhouse, Medium Fisheries & Aquaculture
In July 2018, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) held its first public meeting on the topic of “Food Produced Using Animal Cell Culture Technology.”
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The Guardian Staff Energy Solutions
Ahead of Earth Day, the Guardian is partnering with newsrooms around the world in a joint initiative calling on journalists to treat the climate crisis like the emergency it is.
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Damian Carrington, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution
Rising levels of microplastic pollution raise questions about the impact on human health, experts say.
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Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Ángel León made his name serving innovative seafood. But then he discovered something in the seagrass that could transform our understanding of the sea itself – as a vast garden.
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Phil Hosegood, The Conversation
If you’ve ever been seasick, “stable” may be the last word you associate with the ocean. But as global temperatures rise, the world’s oceans are technically becoming more stable.
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Carole Excell, World Resources Institute Plastics & Pollution
A whopping 8 million tons of plastic winds up in the ocean each year, endangering wildlife and polluting ecosystems.
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Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams
The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide surged past 420 parts per million for the first time in recorded history this past weekend, according to a measurement taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Energy Solutions
Despite the difficulties associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, the world added a record amount of new renewable energy capacity in 2020, according to data released Monday by the International Renewable Energy Agency.
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Bjorn Tore Markussen & Kristian Teleki, World Economic Forum
Turning commitments and ideas into the actions needed for a sustainable blue economy will require evidence and data.
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Laura Anderson, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
California is home to a diversity of coastal ecosystems like tidal marshes, seagrass beds, and estuaries. These ecosystems provide flood and storm protection, healthy habitats for fish and birds, and recreational spaces. They may also play an important role in addressing climate change.
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Yuning Liu & Tatsatom Gonçalves, World Resources Institute Energy Solutions
Despite the immense obstacles, U.S. local governments bought more renewable energy in 2020 than ever before, according to new data from the Local Government Renewables Action Tracker.
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Talib Visram, Fast Company Plastics & Pollution
It’s another sad reality of the COVID-19 era that some of the steps we’re taking to stay safe and combat the coronavirus spread are often in opposition to hard-fought efforts to curb the use of plastics for a cleaner planet.
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Rémi Gruet, World Ocean Initiative / The Economist Group Energy Solutions
A guest blog by Rémi Gruet, CEO at Ocean Energy Europe, the trade association for ocean renewables in Europe.
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Diane Kim, Ignacio Navarrete & Jessica Dutton, The Conversation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Giant kelp, the world’s largest species of marine algae, is an attractive source for making biofuels.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
The development of global aquaculture over the course of the next 20 years must be more focused on helping to reduce poverty and hunger – the first two, and most important, of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Research Brief: California could serve as a model for “Blue Carbon” policies and practices by using carbon sequestration in coastal habitats to achieve its ambitious climate goals.
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Kat Kerlin, UC Davis Fisheries & Aquaculture
Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a paper from the University of California, Davis, is the most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification.
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