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The Vaal River, which serves more than 11 million people, is considerably polluted with microplastics.
Zebra and quagga mussels entered the Great Lakes in large ships’ ballast water. Now, local boaters and anglers are spreading them into the southern and western US.
There is a need for better innovations and policies to help improve the fisheries sector in this region.
Puerto Rico’s tourism industry is booming as nations lift COVID-19 travel restrictions, but development is displacing people who have lived along its coastlines for years.
As nations pledge to preserve swaths of ocean within their territorial waters, a marine scientist explains why some marine protected areas shelter ocean life more effectively than others.
Creating opportunities to meaningfully engage women in governance and decision-making is necessary to achieve gender equality in small-scale fisheries.
Cleaning up the Great Lakes was a big job when the US and Canada undertook it in 1972. Today it’s far more challenging.
Suspending mackerel and spring herring fishing in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence will impact the fishing industry on many levels.
One of the oldest industries, fishing, is entering the world of advanced analytics and data-driven planning. With oceans under stress and key fish stocks dwindling, can precision fishing help?
Technology and regulation have solved some issues with bycatch. To reduce damage to marine life further, we can harness the skills of our best fishers.
Forming tightly woven populations, these bush-like corals offer a refuge to a myriad of marine species.
A tin of tuna is significantly cheaper than many types of fresh meat or fish. But how much can you eat before you need to worry about mercury?
Every gun and bullet sold in the U.S. generates excise taxes to support conservation. But Americans are buying guns now for different reasons than in the past – and increasingly, not for hunting.
Water is central to adapting to climate change, but very few of the strategies put in place to respond to water hazards or ensure its availability have been evaluated.
It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.
To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
The social, ecological and governance objectives of marine protected areas need to be understood to enhance benefits to both people and the environment.
No country has a higher diversity of sharks than Australia. That means we have a special responsibility to protect them.
Idyllic destinations have been seen a calamitous drop in income since the pandemic.
Top contributors
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Complex Systems and Environmental Policy, Bournemouth University
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Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow, Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Chief Scientist, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate professor, Singapore Management University
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental Governance, UCL
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Associate professor in marine biology, Swansea University
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Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Senior research fellow, Marine Biological Association
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer Environmental Marine Science, University of Hull
