To Fight Climate Change, Put Algae on the Menu
BY IDA ERIKSEN-U. COPENHAGEN At a time when food production is one of the biggest climate culprits, it is essential that we seek out new food sources which can nourish us and, at the same time, not...
View Article5 Reasons To Rethink the Future of Dams
By Tara Lohan The tide has shifted on dams. Once a monument to our engineering prowess, there’s now widespread acknowledgment that dam-building comes with a long list of harms. Some of those can be...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020
By John R. Plat A few months ago a group of scientists warned about the rise of “extinction denial,” an effort much like climate denial to mischaracterize the extinction crisis and suggest that human...
View ArticleNew Ways To Assess Stress in Fish Are Urgently Needed in Aquaculture
By Pedro Miguel L. Rodrigues & Cláudia Raposo de Magalhães With an increasing demand in fish products, aquaculture is fast becoming a main priority towards achieving sustainable fish production....
View ArticleAs Extreme Weather Events Increase, What Are the Risks To Wildlife?
By Tara Lohan A hailstorm in South Texas. Tornadoes in Tennessee. Wildfires across the West. A barrage of Gulf Coast hurricanes. Those are among the record 22 weather and climate disasters that each...
View ArticleWhy Indigenous Knowledge Matters To the Future of Fisheries
By Tara Lohan Andrea Reid grew up surrounded by water on Canada’s Prince Edward Island with fish “very much just in my blood,” she says. When she went to college, she realized that fish could be a...
View ArticleNew Research Shows Just How Many Fish Are Eating Plastic
By Tara Lohan Each year the amount of plastic swirling in ocean gyres and surfing the tide toward coastal beaches seems to increase. So too does the amount of plastic particles being consumed by fish...
View Article5 Things To Know About the Fate of Wild Salmon
By Tara Lohan It’s not too hard to find salmon on a menu in the United States, but that seeming abundance — much of it fueled by overseas fish farms — overshadows a grim reality on the ground. Many...
View ArticleAre We Managing Invasive Species Wrong?
By Tara Lohan European green crabs arrived on the eastern shores of North America in the early 1800s, likely as ship ballast stowaways or affixed to boat hulls. They found their way to the...
View ArticleTargeted Ocean Protection Could Offer 3x the Benefits
By Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara The new paper is the most comprehensive assessment to date of where strict ocean protection can contribute to a more abundant supply of healthy seafood and provide...
View ArticleOur Last, Best Chance To Save Atlantic Salmon
By Tara Lohan Atlantic salmon have a challenging life history — and those that hail from U.S. waters have seen things get increasingly difficult in the past 300 years. Dubbed the “king of fish,”...
View ArticleHow Did the Pandemic Affect Ocean Conservation?
By David Shiffman As we enter what’s hopefully the home stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to take stock of how it affected every aspect of our world, to consider what happened, what could...
View ArticleWatching a Coral Reef Die as Climate Change Devastates One of the Most...
By Sam Purkis, University of Miami The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in...
View ArticleGenes May Signal Which Animals Will Survive Climate Change
By Shirley Cardenas-McGill Their findings could help scientists forecast the evolutionary future of these populations. Climate change is exacerbating problems like habitat loss and temperature swings...
View ArticleMany Creatures of the Deep Face a Stifling Future
By Tim Radford Even if humans stopped all use of fossil fuels immediately, and drastically reduced greenhouse gas emissions, the oceans would go on warming. And as the waters warmed, their burden of...
View ArticleHow the United States Must Help Sharks Around the World
By David McGuire and Molly Yoon Sharks should be afraid of us. After evolving as a highly specialized lineage of fish for over 400 million years and surviving five major extinction events, they now...
View ArticleUK Nuclear Plants Will Exact Heavy Fish Toll
By Paul Brown The high fatality rate which the cooling systems of two British nuclear power stations may impose on marine life is worrying environmentalists, who describe the heavy fish toll they...
View Article6 Things To Know About Climate Change and Heat Waves
By Tara Lohan It’s hard not to think about how hot it’s been — even if you live somewhere that has escaped the heat in the past few weeks. When British Columbia clocks temperatures of 121 F, it gets...
View ArticleSeahorses Extinction Assessment Reveals Threatened Species and Knowledge Gaps
By John R. Platt Last month conservationists working with SeaLife Aquarium in Australia dropped 18 biodegradable “hotels” into Sydney Harbor and Port Stephens to help one of the region’s most...
View ArticleEnd Subsidies That Drive Overfishing and Threaten Ocean Health
By Steve Trent For every day that passes without an agreement to end subsidies that drive overfishing, fish populations shrink, coastal communities lose vital livelihoods and food security, and the...
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