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Marine Environmental Issues
Why Can We Still Eat Eel, an Endangered Species? The State of the Resource and Choices for the Future
Marine Environmental Issues
Is the Ocean Carbon Sink Reaching Its Limit? The Three Pumps and the Signs of Weakening
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is IUU Fishing? Up to 26 Million Tonnes Stolen a Year, and How Satellites and Law Fight Back
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is Deep-Sea Mining? The Race for Rare Metals and Its Irreversible Impact on Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Marine Environmental Issues
How Dams Cause Coastal Erosion: Trapped Sediment, Vanishing Beaches, and the Push to Return Sand to the Sea
Marine Environmental Issues
The Environmental Impact of Aquaculture: Uneaten Feed, Antibiotics, Fishmeal, and the Frontier of Sustainable Fish Farming
Marine Environmental Issues
How Sand Mining Accelerates Coastal Erosion: 6 Billion Tonnes Dredged from the Ocean Every Year
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Do Jellyfish Blooms Happen? Nomura's Jellyfish Damage and the Links to Overfishing, Warming and Eutrophication
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Do Urchin Barrens Happen? The Loss of Kelp Forests and the Global Fight to Restore Them
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is a Golden Tide? Why Massive Sargassum Blooms Bury Coastlines and How the Seaweed Could Become a Resource
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is Shark Finning? The Practice Decimating Sharks and the Global Rules to Stop It
Marine Environmental Issues
Plastic Ingestion by Seabirds: Why 90% Eat Plastic and the Stomach Disease Plasticosis
Marine Environmental Issues
How Ships' Ballast Water Spreads Invasive Species: Disrupted Marine Ecosystems and Mandatory Treatment Systems Explained
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Do Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreaks Happen? How They Devour Coral Reefs and the Front Lines of Culling
Marine Environmental Issues
PFAS and the Ocean: How 'Forever Chemicals' Reach Seafood — Health Effects and the Latest Regulations
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Does Mercury Concentrate in Fish? Bioaccumulation of Methylmercury and Safe Tuna Consumption
Marine Environmental Issues
Three Years of ALPS Treated Water Ocean Release: Monitoring Data, IAEA Reviews and Global Reactions
Marine Environmental Issues
What Are Resin Pellets (Nurdles)? The Plastic Raw Material Spilling Into the Ocean
Marine Environmental Issues
Fishing Net Recycling: How Old Nets Are Reborn as Clothing and Car Parts
Marine Environmental Issues
What Washes Up on Japan's Beaches: 93% Plastic, Its Sources, and the Science of Beach Cleanups
Marine Environmental Issues
Plastic Flowing from Rivers into the Ocean: The Reality of 2 Million Tonnes a Year and How to Stop It at the River
Marine Environmental Issues
Where Nitrogen and Phosphorus Enter the Sea: Watershed Nutrient Loading and How to Cut It
Marine Biology
How Albatrosses Fly Thousands of Kilometers Without Flapping: The Physics of Soaring and a Story of Recovery
Marine Biology