A series exploring specific initiatives, novel technologies and other advancements to improve efficiency and safety of aquaculture as a positive contribution to out future food supply and global health
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If we do not do something urgently to counter pressure through consumption and illegal fishing, we will face a crisis in protein supply to feed the growing world population, an estimated 40% of whom today are reliant on the sea food as their essential source of protein.
We have exhausted…
By Paul J. Baicich for World Ocean Forum
For many decades, bird researchers and conservationists have been challenged by the mysteries of seabirds. By default, studies were historically limited to accessible nesting sites and nearby feeding areas. For example, and within the last half century, some very impressive mapping of…
Sea level rise and coastal inundation are changing the agricultural landscape around the world.
…saltwater irrigation has been studied for decades, and experiments have succeeded while research and experiments have grown and demonstrated the viability of some plants such as halophytes that have the potential to change our conventional food landscape. …
What happens when the water cycle fails because we won’t change our water wasting ways? And when those dry rivers meet the sea, what then? How will that outcome affect our coasts and oceans? How will we live, upland and down, without water?
According to the US Geological Survey, some…
Intense weather events are calling attention to not just local but worldwide water crises caused by climate. Coastal inundation, community disruption, dislocation and recovery are problems that we seem increasingly unable to withstand. The concept of “sponge cities” are a revolutionary planning tool to integrate urban design with water management strategies such as ground conditions, road and construction patterns and more, to create responses to rapidly changing coastal conditions.
In the south Atlantic, the coincidence of warm ocean water and humid air temperature, wind and evaporation creates weather phenomenon known as tropical cyclones or hurricanes, enhanced over the past decade by changing climate circumstances into intense weather events that threaten the islands of the Caribbean, the southern eastern coast…
Visualization as a powerful tool for understanding
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. …
Hydrology, the hydrospatial perspective, and the importance of multi-dimensional analyses for planning and decision-making, breaking down the boundaries of science to allow for comprehensive inclusion of multiple perspectives and better understanding of complex ocean systems toward international goals and objectives
Regular readers will know my definition of the ocean as a continuum, from freshwater to salt, from mountaintop to abyssal plain. That perspective was oddly unique for a while, seen as an outlier point of view that contradicted the conventional structure of science and governance that separated the two contiguous…
Are we polluting the night sky forever in the name of modern navigation and demand for instant global communications?
One of the great ocean experiences is the panoply of the night sky. A vast darkness, shaped by intimations of residual clouds, the crescent moon, complicated by distant planets and stars…
by Fanny Douvrere
This article originally appeared in “Science”
Science 06 Aug 2021:
Vol. 373, Issue 6555, pp. 601
DOI: 10.1126/science.abl7128
Blue carbon ecosystems include seagrass meadows, tidal marshes, and mangroves, all of which are among Earth’s most efficient absorbers and long-term storers of carbon. This capacity for carbon storage…
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