Tag: Fisheries
How your diet contributes to nutrient pollution and dead zones in...
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Every year in early summer, scientists at universities, research institutions and federal agencies release forecasts for the formation of “dead...
High-tech fishing gear could help save critically endangered right whales
Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Hannah Myers, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Many fish, marine mammals and seabirds that inhabit the world’s oceans are...
Hydropower dams can harm coastal areas far downstream
Paula Ezcurra, University of California San Diego and Octavio Aburto, University of California San Diego
Thousands of hydroelectric dams are under construction around the world,...
Mapping the world’s ‘blue carbon’ hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University and Andre Rovai, Louisiana State University
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom lin
Joanne Burgess, Colorado State University and Edward Barbier, Colorado State University
In...
To conserve ocean life, marine reserves need to protect species that...
Heather Welch, University of California, Santa Cruz and Jennifer McHenry, Florida State University
This summer, many Americans will visit national parks and wildlife refuges in...
Climate change could alter ocean food chains, leading to far fewer...
Jefferson Keith Moore, University of California, Irvine
Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our...
Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger
Ben Belton, Michigan State University; Dave Little, University of Stirling, and Simon Bush, Wageningen University
Over the past three decades, the global aquaculture industry has...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
