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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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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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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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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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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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Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Blue Marine FoundationThe emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.
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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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The State of the World’s Mangroves provides the very latest information on what we know about mangroves and what’s being done to support these magnificent habitats.
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Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges.
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The MSC’s coveted blue tick is the world’s biggest, and some say best, fishery ecolabel. So why is it in the headlines – and does it really do what it says on the tin?
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In this research, we investigate the potential economic and ecological gains from adopting ecosystem-based approaches for the sardine and anchovy fisheries off of the coast of California.
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Global marine fisheries yields are threatened by climate change and overfishing, yet understanding of how these stressors affect the nutrients available from fisheries is lacking.
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Predicted Shifts in the Distributions of Atlantic Reef-Building Corals in the Face of Climate Change
With climate change, many coral species are experiencing shifts in their distributions, threatening the preservation of coral reefs.
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Carbon sequestration and storage in mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows is an essential coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystem service for climate change mitigation.
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Most direct measurements come from plankton net trawling made in these regions; concentrations in other regions have been estimated by microplastic transport models that depend on large-scale ocean circulation patterns. However, global measurements of microplastic distribution and its temporal variability are lacking.
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The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Ocean Literacy efforts can contribute to progress in all of the Ocean Decade Challenges by encouraging an informed society that values the ocean and takes action to overcome such challenges.
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Microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, are becoming an emerging resource for the development of eco-sustainable plastic degradation and recycling processes.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute, Nekton
While often not at the forefront of conversation on the global stage, our ocean is the backbone of climate and life on this planet.
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The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, et al.
Why is nature important for the financial sector? How does the CBD work? What is being discussed at the COP15 and why is it relevant for financial institutions? How can the financial sector act?
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For years we have known that governments subsidize fishing by their own fleets in the waters of other nations. But we did not know exactly where those dollars were destined, making it hard to determine a cumulative footprint for foreign subsidy spending in coastal state waters.
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