Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand by Jonathan Watts, global environment editor.
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Ocean Stewardship Coalition, UN Global Compact Fisheries & Aquaculture
The purpose of this report is to position seaweed, or marine macroalgae, as a significant nature-based climate solution with large scaling potential that can directly sequester carbon and indirectly displace greenhouse gas emissions in numerous ways, with clear economic and ecological co-benefits that make it a form of “charismatic carbon” and a holistic nature-based climate solution.
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Short, R.E. et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Concerns that the global food system is failing to deliver safe, nutritious, sustainable and equitable diets have intensified over the past decade, leading to calls for food system transformation.
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Golden, C.D. et al,, Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single food type (‘seafood’ or ‘fish’).
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Dr. Melissa Walsh, Dr. Rhona Barr, and Camilla Sundberg, Marine Conservation Finance
Finance is critical to the long-term success of MPAs, yet finance remains fragmented and limited.
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Richa Syal, Environmental Reporting Collective Fisheries & Aquaculture
Conservationists are sounding the alarm over the international race to exploit the Antarctic's krill swarms.
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Willem van der Pijl, Aqua-Spark Fisheries & Aquaculture
We at Aqua-Spark believe that aquaculture production will have to accelerate and have identified tilapia to be the fish to do so: it’s scalable and it’s healthy, sustainable, and affordable.
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Blythe, J. et al., British Ecological Society
Research is demonstrating the potential of virtual reality to stimulate users’ capacity to imagine and pursue more sustainable futures and to encourage pro-environmental behaviour.
Building on this work, we asked whether experiencing the oceans in a virtual reality environment could make someone care about them and take action?
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Sustainable Use, Mariculture and Conservation of Giant Clams in the Marine Regulated Fishing Area of Reao Atoll, Tuamotu.
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Alexandra Talty, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Kelp can clean New York’s polluted waters, tackle climate change and is sustainable – but growers need a law change first.
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Howells, E.J. et al., Science Advances Fisheries & Aquaculture
Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the feasibility and scale of genetic improvements remain untested despite ongoing population declines from recurrent thermal stress events.
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Dee Hon, BC Business Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
But our growing ocean economy faces stiff competition from overseas.
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John Virdin, Our Shared Seas
The role of “ocean aid” in achieving global targets for ocean conservation and sustainable use by 2030.
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Park, J.S. et al, World Aquaculture Society Fisheries & Aquaculture
Although Korea is third in seaweed production and second in shellfish production globally, this is the first study evaluating ecosystem services of seaweed and shellfish aquaculture in Korea.
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Our Shared Seas Fisheries & Aquaculture
The purpose of this essay is to better understand the current state and future of sustainable investing in the ocean and fisheries.
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IPCC Energy Solutions
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
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Eric Klinenberg, The New Yorker Fisheries & Aquaculture
How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.
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Andrew Turner, University of Plymouth Plastics & Pollution
Because paint particles consist of a resin (polymer) combined with one or more additives, they bear compositional similarities with microplastics. Despite these shared characteristics, however, paint particles are often undetected, deliberately overlooked or evade classification in the pool of micro-debris.
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Blue Marine Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
The emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.
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Miller, K.A. et al., Frontiers in Marine Science Energy Solutions
The extraction of minerals from the seabed of the deep oceans is of increasing interest to investors, mining companies and some coastal states.
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