by Peter Neill, World Ocean Observatory
A recent article written by Charlotte Stevenson, a freelance science writer, set me back as good science reporting does, by its examination of a familiar issue. Ms. Stevenson reports on two academic papers, published in 2021, by researchers at the Utah State University and…
Many are certain that it is not because it does not have the same essential nutrients as food, while other maintain that it is. Is water food? We say it is — food for the soul.
Is water food? There is a debate; many certain that it is not because…
The Sargasso Sea is a verdant, vital ecosystem that supports a great diversity of life, provides shelter for marine mammals — while also serving as a repository for much of the spoils of human endeavor: shipping, fishing, harvesting, and pollution.
I am often asked how it is possible to understand…
Dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls, carcinogens, drugs, food additives, hydrocarbons, plastics, pesticides — all manner of human-driven interventions that are infiltrating the earth. Are we turning the world into a xenobiotic dump? Is there another way?
Today, in my view, we have strong gusts of wind, small craft warnings, sweeping away…
“Climate is the ocean; the ocean is climate; and for that meaning not to be at the center of an international strategy for our future may be the reason we are not getting anywhere with requisite urgency and success.”
The world’s attention has moved on from COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland…
There is much talk these days of “new systems thinking” as a reaction to the old systems that have been revealed as failures or as isolated parts of an ever more complicated world of technology, economics, politics, and social crises. …
How do we govern and manage the ocean inside and outside of national jurisdiction in order to use it responsibly and assure its long-term potential? How do we collectively affirm the transformational change required to meet the conditions and challenges we face worldwide?
The world is connected, not divided, by…
/ˈbakˌwôSH,ˈbakˌwäSH/
(noun)
· The cleaning of a filter by reversing the flow;
· The backward current of water or air created by the motion of an object through it;
· The motion of receding waves.
Where I live, water is precious. Supply is limited to what can be drawn from…
Aquaculture as we have known it to date is based on the idea of pens floating offshore filled with fish susceptible to disease, fed and treated with feed loaded with antibiotics, generating notorious amounts of waste, and vulnerable to breech, thus the escape of possibly sick or mutated fish into…
In this short series we are focusing on the future of aquaculture, specifically the disruptive aspects of new technologies. These discussions are based on an assumption that traditional fisheries are so stressed and threatened by global, over-consumptive activities that, despite well-intended policies and regulations, lack of restricting market forces, regulations…
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