Quick Hits: 11/02/13
As the week comes to a close, we offer your our week in review. Brazil’s Oil Industry Business: The Economist On October 30th, OGX, the oil-and-gas firm at the heart of the business empire of Eike...
View ArticleIn Hot Water
Ever since the turn of the twentieth century, global warming has seemed to be at a pause. While carbon dioxide content within the atmosphere has measurably risen, global average temperature has...
View ArticleCoastal Peril: The Unnoticed Costs of Sea Level Rise
As summer winds down, many of us are packing away our sunscreen and beach towels with fond memories of beach trips and coastal excursions that filled our summer days. My own weekends spent at...
View ArticleThe Great Tuna Gamble
North Lake is a sleepy harbor village of a few dozen wooden fishing shacks and a handful of houses, perched on the northeastern shore of Prince Edward Island on the east coast of Canada. When your...
View ArticlePlastic trash is killing coral reefs. Here’s how we can still save our oceans.
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleUsing Sustainable Finance to Save Our Oceans
World Oceans Day is celebrated annually to bring attention to conservation efforts and to inspire new ones. We need, now more than ever, innovative solutions to ensure the future health of our oceans....
View ArticleHow the oceans go, so goes our future
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleAre plastic-eating bacteria the solution to ocean pollution? It’s not that...
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleWe can still save our oceans and fisheries. New study shows how.
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleAn Interview with Paul Greenberg
On September 28, 2018, The Fletcher School hosted The Ocean’s Turn? conference – a one-day event that looked at the role of the ocean as an avenue, an arena, and a source, and examined it all through...
View ArticleRecord-warm oceans: How worried should we be?
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleHumans are causing 1 million species to go extinct. Here are 3 ways we can...
This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife; and a stable...
View ArticleThe Future of Nova Scotian Lobsters
Tensions between First Nation lobstermen and Nova Scotia’s commercial fishing boiled over in recent weeks, with reports of violence and property destruction in an at times racially charged collision....
View ArticleA Poison Drop
Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, reshuffling entire food webs and ecosystems. But some invasive species, whether they migrated because of climate change or accidentally...
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