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Featured Connection: Environmental Justice
Communities populated primarily by ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged people have long been burdened with a disproportionate number of environmental hazards such as garbage dumps, toxic waste facilitates, scrap yards, factories, and other sources of...
UN Ocean Decade as an Instrument of Peace
A new paper co-authored by Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow Jean-Baptiste Jouffray and Lead Scientist Colette Wabnitz explores considerations for 'A Peaceful Ocean. You can access the article here.
Bolstering the Natural Resiliency of Coastal Regions
There is a new opinion piece by Jenna Flemma, the Director of the Ocean Defense Initiative, in the Summer issue of ECO Magazine about the importance of the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act coastal restoration investments that will...
Future of Deep-Sea Mining Hangs in the Balance
As reported by the Associated Press, the International Seabed Authority — the United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor — is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the...
Marine Conservation Reading List
Here's a great list from a site called Bex Band: Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction (2013) by Philip V. Mladenov Providing a brief overview of life in the marine environment and how humans are impacting it’s fine balance. This is a good book to provide you...
Featured Connection: Underwater Photography
No doubt, underwater photography is an exhilarating and fun experience. When most people think of underwater photographers, they picture someone in full scuba gear treading water in the ocean’s depths (usually among sharks or the wreckage of a ship). And while this is...
EU Committee Votes in Favor of Increased Fisheries Regulation
The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has voted overwhelmingly in favour of an agreement to revise the EU’s Fisheries Control Regulation, which can increase transparency around catches at sea and combat illegal activities and hidden overfishing. Five years...
Featured Connection: Ocean Sustainability
Approaching the topic of “ocean sustainability” can be a rather sensitive endeavor. One reason for this is that there doesn’t seem to be a single accepted definition of the term “sustainability.” So, depending on your scientific, political, or environmental...
Sustainable Products from Ocean Plastic
It’s no secret that the ocean is suffocating with plastic waste. Some scientists predict that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. We discovered one company – #tide ocean material – that is collecting ocean-bound plastic waste in Southeast Asia...
Featured Connection: Aquaculture
The Business of Feeding the World According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, approximately 4.5 billion people get a significant source of their daily protein intake from fish. But that doesn’t mean billions of people are going down to...
Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
EJScreen is an EPA's environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic socioeconomic indicators. EJScreen users choose a geographic area; the tool then...
What is Ocean Literacy?
The Greatest Threat to the Ocean is Ignorance Ocean literacy is defined as an understanding of the ocean’s influence on you and your influence on the ocean. The idea of creating a more “ocean-literate” society is, in many ways, the central theme that runs throughout...