Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Graham Readfearn
While emissions reduction is the only long-term solution, scientists are testing ways to keep the reef going in a warming world
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IUCN Plastics & Pollution
Plastic pollution is the most widespread problem affecting the marine environment. It also threatens ocean health, food safety and quality, human health, coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change.
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Cara Giaimo
It’s actually been done before. Now the challenge is to scale up—way up.
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Linwood Pendleton, Karen Evans, and Martin Visbeck
The current scale, pace, and practice of ocean scientific discovery and observation are not keeping up with the changes in ocean and human conditions. We need fundamental changes in the way that researchers work with decision makers to co-create knowledge that will address pressing development problems.
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Rachel Cooper Energy Solutions
Norway has approved plans for Equinor’s floating wind farm.
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Bethan Staton and Harry Dempsey, Financial Times Shipping & Ports
World’s fleet under renewed pressure to clean up its act and curb greenhouse gases
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Barbara Finamore Shipping & Ports
Studies conducted in the past few years by Chinese researchers clearly show that shipping has become a significant source of air pollution in China’s main port cities (as shown in the above figure). Because these port cities are so densely populated, emissions from ships threaten the health of a large portion of China’s population.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, NYT Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Machine-learning applications are proving to be especially useful to the scientific community studying the planet's largest bodies of water.
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Joshua S. Hill Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Swiss-Swedish electronic manufacturing giant ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with French hydrogen technologies specialist Hydrogène de France to jointly manufacture megawatt-scale hydrogen fuel cell systems for ocean-going vessels.
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Maram Ahmed Tourism
Coastal tourism and maritime transport have important roles to play in the diversification efforts of regional economies
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Sarah Elizabeth Richards, NYT Plastics & Pollution
Dimitri Deheyn’s lab has become a hub of novel research on the microfibers found in our waterways and even the air we breathe.
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The Guardian
Research into ocean’s plankton likely to lead to negative revision of global climate calculations
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Amy Woodyatt, CNN Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Marine life in the world's oceans could recover to healthy levels in the next thirty years if decisive and urgent action is taken, an international review has found.
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Paul Brown Energy Solutions
With green energy from wind and solar out-competing fossil fuels, governments now hope for another boost − blue energy from the oceans.
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Charlotte Middlehurst Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Marine operators are looking to clean up their act
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Jemi Laclé Tourism
What does the big blue mean to you? Is it a holiday destination, a source of income, as for the 60 million people working in the marine fishing industry, a vital protein source of 151 million tonnes for human consumption, or a home to millions of species? The ocean has a different meaning for everyone, but for all of us, it is a source of life.
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Prachi Patel Plastics & Pollution
Plastic made of starch and cellulose is strong and water-resistant but breaks down in the ocean over time
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UN Environment Tourism
Tourists and divers flock the pristine Nusa Penida Island in Bali, Indonesia for the scenic views, beautiful beaches, towering limestone cliffs and life underwater.
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The Economist Group, World Ocean Initiative
The World Ocean Initiative speaks to two investors in the sustainable ocean economy—Katapult Ocean and Mirova Natural Capital—to find out more about the prospects for blue finance.
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Fundamental changes in seawater chemistry are occurring throughout the world's oceans. The ocean absorbs about a quarter of the CO2 we release into the atmosphere every year, so as atmospheric CO2 levels increase, so do the levels in the ocean.
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