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How a Celebrity Chef Learned to Love Farmed and Frozen Fish
To feed a growing population, sustainable seafood advocate Ned Bell is encouraging fellow chefs and seafood consumers to look beyond ‘fresh’ and ‘wild.’
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The Platform Aiming to Open Up Ocean Data to All
Carolyn Savoldelli, a research analyst for the World Resources Institute, explains her group’s effort to curate, decipher and connect a growing amount of open ocean data to aid scientists and policymakers.
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Reducing Plastic Pollution Isn’t Enough to Save the Ocean
Mark J. Spalding
President, The Ocean Foundation
Mark J. Spalding President, The Ocean Foundation
Plastic production is expected to quadruple by 2050. Mark J. Spalding, president of The Ocean Foundation, explains how fully understanding the scope of the pollution problem convinced him that current efforts are not sufficient.
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How DNA Sequencing Is Revealing New Insights About Ocean Health
Ann Bucklin
Ann Bucklin
Despite the critical role marine zooplankton play in ocean ecosystems, scientists know little about the tiny species. Ann Bucklin, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Connecticut, describes how her laboratory is changing that.
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Deeply Talks: Big Business Joins Fight Against Ocean Plastic Pollution
A growing wave of multinational corporations is pledging to stop handing out single-use plastic straws. Listen to Lonely Whale’s Dune Ives discuss the global momentum against disposable plastic and efforts to create a new ocean-friendly plastic supply chain.
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What’s a Clean Beach Worth to You?
Timothy Haab, a professor at Ohio State University, explains how and why putting a price tag on a beach’s value encourages policymakers to value natural capital.
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What It’s Like to Personify a Shark on Twitter
The combination of tagging and social media has helped both scientists and the public engage with the ocean’s most feared predator in new ways. Jim Ware, who has tweeted as Mary Lee – the world’s most famous shark since Jaws – tells Oceans Deeply about his experience.
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Why We Need to Start Categorizing Marine Heatwaves Like Hurricanes
Alistair Hobday
Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Alistair Hobday Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Australian marine research scientist Alistair Hobday writes about why it’s important to start naming and classifying marine heatwaves as the phenomenon increasingly wreaks havoc on ocean ecosystems.
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California’s Climate Summit Is a Moment to Lead on Oceans, Coasts
Sara Aminzadeh, executive director of California Coastkeeper Alliance and a member of the California Coastal Commission, says there’s momentum for ambitious ocean commitments to be made at the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit.
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Sometimes We Really Need Single-Use Plastics
Paul Harvey
Environmental Science Researcher, Australia’s Macquarie University
Paul Harvey Environmental Science Researcher, Australia’s Macquarie University
As governments around the world rightly consider bans of various kinds of disposable plastics, nuance is needed to protect crucial applications, such as in research, food aid and medicine, argues environmental science researcher Paul Harvey of Macquarie University.
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Will Surfers Still Protect the Sea When They Can Ride Artificial Waves?
Wave pools are opening far away from the coasts. Surfer and environmentalist Steve Hawk discusses his high hopes – and biggest fears – for the future of the technology and whether it will inspire more or less love of the ocean.
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Follow the Fish: Why Marine Protected Areas Should Be Mobile
Heather Welch
Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California
Jennifer McHenry
PhD Student, Florida State University
Heather Welch Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California
Jennifer McHenry PhD Student, Florida State University
Marine mammals, sea turtles and other species don’t always stay within the boundaries of ocean reserves. Two scientists say marine preserves should be designed with enough flexibility to extend protections to where animals migrate.
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The Race to Decode Secrets of Antarctica’s Most Important Ocean Animal
The future of krill – and all the marine wildlife that feed on them – is uncertain in the changing Southern Ocean. Krill biologist Stephen Nicol says they may be adaptable to climate change, but new technologies need to be deployed to study their enigmatic behavior.
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Trump Takes U.S. Ocean Policy in the Wrong Direction
Whitley Saumweber
Ocean Policy Consultant
Roberta Elias
Deputy Director for Ocean Policy, World Wildlife Fund
Whitley Saumweber Ocean Policy Consultant
Roberta Elias Deputy Director for Ocean Policy, World Wildlife Fund
We must reorient our ocean management to adapt to new climate realities, say Whitley Saumweber, former ocean and coastal adviser to President Obama, and Roberta Elias of the World Wildlife Fund.
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Deeply Talks: U.S. Ocean Politics – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Following Capitol Hill Ocean Week, Oceans Deeply’s Jessica Leber and Kristen Sarri of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation discuss the ocean and coastal priorities of the Trump administration and Congress.
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Why Famed Ocean Advocate Sylvia Earle Is Looking South
A coalition hopes to achieve a network of marine protected areas in the vast Southern Ocean by 2020. Earle argues that the health of the planet itself is at stake.
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What Can You Do To Protect Oceans? Advocates, Scientists Weigh In
For World Oceans Day, we asked nonprofit leaders and scientists what they thought people could do to improve the health of oceans and coasts. Their advice ran the gamut.
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How New Fishing Rules Could Save Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales
Kimberley Davies
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dalhousie University
Kimberley Davies Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dalhousie University
The need for new protections for North Atlantic right whales in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence underscore these animals’ dire situation – and how little we still know about them.
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Exploring a New ‘Zone’ of Deep-Sea Coral Life Hidden in Plain Sight
A 2016 expedition near Bermuda found new species and biological communities thriving on the seabed relatively near shore. Alex Rogers, science director of the Nekton Oxford Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, says the discovery shows how little we know about marine life.
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How Greenpeace and Thai Union Turned up the Heat on the Tuna Industry
Oliver Knowles
Senior Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace International
Oliver Knowles Senior Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace International
The environmental group and the world’s biggest tuna producer are collaborating to improve working conditions and environmental practices. Now other seafood companies need to join a global effort to make tuna fishing sustainable.
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Explosion of Marine Life in the Wreckage of a World War Is Under Threat
Clara Mackenzie
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
Joanne Porter
Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University Orkney Campus
Clara Mackenzie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
Joanne Porter Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University Orkney Campus
The scuttling of 52 German warships off Scotland nearly a century ago during World War I spawned a habitat for a diverse array of crab, lobster, starfish, sea urchin and fish. Now bottom trawling and climate change is imperiling that refuge, say two researchers.
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Why Wild Seafood’s Carbon Footprint Is Growing – and How to Reduce It
Robert Parker at the University of British Columbia has calculated greenhouse gas emissions from the global fishing industry. He talks about what the data show and why not all fisheries are alike.
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Rigs-to-Reefs: Giving Oil Platforms a Second Life for Conservation
Projects to convert retired oil rigs into artificial reefs are controversial. But advocates and consultants Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson argue this practice provides valuable habitat at a time when natural coral reefs are disappearing.
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Global Fish Catch Could Plummet as Climate Change Takes Hold
Jefferson Keith Moore
Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Jefferson Keith Moore Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Over the next two centuries, warming oceans could trap nutrients at the poles and starve out many of the world’s fisheries, according to a recent study.
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Expedition Reveals the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Gulf of Mexico
The Okeanos Expedition has returned from a 23-day exploration of the deep ocean in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientist Daniel Wagner says that much of what they saw was new to science and could affect management of the Gulf.
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High-Stakes Oceanography at Antarctica’s Dangerously Thinning Glacier
The collapse of Thwaites Glacier would unleash catastrophic sea level rise. Erin Pettit, one of more than 100 scientists involved with a new international collaboration, discusses how better ocean data will help predict the glacier’s – and humanity’s – fate.
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Deeply Talks: Behind the Quest to Map the Seabed by 2030
Mars is mapped in better detail than the ocean floor, which is why a project on the scale of some space missions was launched to change that. Listen to experts discuss how Seabed 2030 will work and what it could mean for marine conservation.
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Goldman Prize Goes to Activist Who Fought Deep-Sea Industrial Trawling
Claire Nouvian, one of the winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, has successfully battled to protect marine life from destructive fishing practices.
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Why This Insurer Wants to Put the Spotlight on Growing ‘Ocean Risk’
Chip Cunliffe, director for sustainable development at XL Catlin, a global insurance and reinsurance group, explains why his company is hosting the first-ever Ocean Risk Summit in May and what it hopes to accomplish.
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A Floating Offshore Wind Farm Is Coming to California
Matthew Marshall, executive director of the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, explains why a public-private partnership wants to build what could be the country’s first floating wind farm, in the Pacific Ocean.
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How Historic Shipwreck Exploration Is Advancing Ocean Renewable Energy
Michael Roberts
SEACAMS R&D Project Manager at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences at Bangor University
Michael Roberts SEACAMS R&D Project Manager at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences at Bangor University
Shipwrecks from both world wars are serving as models for research into how tidal and wave energy infrastructure will withstand marine conditions and potentially serve as artificial habitat.
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Fish Fight: Is Aquaculture Feeding the People Who Need it Most?
Marine scientist Edward Allison says his research shows that in some developing countries, fish farming is not benefiting nutritionally vulnerable communities. That has triggered a backlash from other researchers and the aquaculture industry.
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To Save the World’s Coral Reefs, Bigger – and Smaller – Are Better
‘Aulani Wilhelm
Senior Vice President, Center for Oceans at Conservation International
‘Aulani Wilhelm Senior Vice President, Center for Oceans at Conservation International
Coral reefs are vital marine ecosystems, but time is running out to protect them from climate change. The only way to stave off a coral catastrophe, says ‘Aulani Wilhelm of Conservation International, is to scale up marine protected areas – and fast.
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Bleaching in Australia’s Northern Territory Is a Scary Sign for Corals
Selina Ward
Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
Selina Ward Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
It’s not the first time bleaching has hit this area, but it is another indication that waters around Australia, and the world, are warming rapidly, says University of Queensland coral researcher Selina Ward.
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Deeply Talks: Hedging Climate Change by Insuring Coral Reefs
In the latest installment of Deeply Talks, we discuss the world’s first insurance policy for a coral reef with experts at the Nature Conservancy. In Mexico, the policy will pay for coral reef restoration when destructive hurricanes strike.
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10 Billion Oysters: A Splashy Goal to Restore Chesapeake Bay
After years of work to bring oysters back, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found funding and interest harder to maintain, says scientist Chris Moore. So it helped form a new partnership that aims to plant 10 billion oysters by 2025 and grow a bigger oyster-farming industry.
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Sunk Costs: Debt-for-Ocean a New Tool for Marine Conservation
The Nature Conservancy’s Rob Weary explains how the group brokered an innovative financing deal that could serve as a model for ocean protection in island developing nations.
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Ocean Acidification: A Chance for Bipartisan Cooperation in Congress?
Sarah Cooley, a marine scientist at the Ocean Conservancy, explains the environmental group’s strategy for reaching out to both sides of the aisle on legislation to address ocean challenges in a divisive political environment.
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Message in a Bottle: Procter & Gamble’s Push to Recycle Ocean Plastic
Consumer products giant P&G is tackling marine pollution by creating bottles made from beach plastic and developing new technologies to reduce waste. P&G’s Virginie Helias talks about the importance of collaboration to solve the ocean plastic crisis.
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Seafood Giant Tests Technology to Prevent Illegal Fishing, Worker Abuse
Thai Union, one of the world’s largest seafood companies, is exploring if digital logs and satellite connectivity on fishing boats could help prevent human rights abuses and illegal fishing. Darian McBain, global director for sustainability, says results look promising.