Ocean Policy News
May 16, 2024
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May 14, 2024 The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while slipping among Republicans in the state since ...
May 9, 2024 Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean stewardship and conservation, adoption of ecosystem-based management has been slow to take hold. To support this change in ocean management, a group of researchers and ...
May 9, 2024 An international collaboration says the world's largest marine protected areas aren't collectively delivering the biodiversity benefits they could be because of slow implementation of management strategies and a failure to restrict the most ...
May 6, 2024 As the region reckons with its toxic history of offshore dumping off the California coast, new findings raise troubling questions about whether the banned pesticide remains a threat to wildlife and human ...
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May 2, 2024 The alarming rates of biodiversity loss worldwide have made clear that the classical way of governing biodiversity recovery based on protected areas ...
Apr. 25, 2024 Companies' emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Researchers have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, ...
Apr. 23, 2024 A new study finds that 'sunny day flooding,' which occurs during high tides, increases the levels of fecal bacteria in coastal waters. While the elevated bacteria levels in the coastal waters tend to ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Scientists have developed a framework for measuring plastic emissions akin to the global standard for measuring greenhouse gas emissions. The ...
Apr. 18, 2024 Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to new research. Scientists used satellite data that accurately and consistently maps ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Florida is projected to lose 3.5 million acres of land to development by 2070. A new study highlights how Florida can buffer itself against both climate change and population pressures by conserving ...
Apr. 12, 2024 Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using new data to help avoid right whales' harmful exposure to ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Many marine protected areas are falling short of their most basic purpose: to rebuild struggling fish populations. In a new study, scientists looked at the age breakdown of reef fish in marine ...
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Apr. 3, 2024 Most Americans report having personally experienced the effects of extreme weather, according to new survey data. An analysis finds that a reported exposure to extreme weather is associated with ...
Apr. 2, 2024 An international team of scientists published a study emphasizing the urgent need to align political will, economic resources, and societal values to ensure a more sustainable and equitable world. ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Researchers warn that today's hunting quotas of about 3,000 animals pose a risk to the long-term survival of the grey seal in the Baltic Sea. The conclusions of this new study are based on ...
Mar. 22, 2024 There can be no analysis without data. In this spirit, researchers have published a database containing over 6,000 agri-environmental policies, thus enabling their peers as well as policymakers and ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Claims that climate change is natural are inconsistent with new oceanic temperature ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Depicting worst-case climate scenarios like expanding deserts and dying coral reefs may better motivate people to support environmental policies when delivered via virtual reality, according to a ...
Mar. 15, 2024 In order to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C, it is essential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. This would mean not exploiting most of the ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Researchers propose that governments apply a new method for calculating the benefits that arise from conserving biodiversity and nature for future ...
Mar. 7, 2024 A new study of migrant drowning deaths in the Pacific Ocean lays the groundwork for future ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Climate change is heating the oceans, altering currents and circulation patterns responsible for regulating climate on a global scale. If temperatures dropped, some of that damage could theoretically ...
Feb. 21, 2024 There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Citizen science can help to improve conservation and management strategies for Mediterranean marine ecosystems, and to mitigate the impact of the environmental ...
Feb. 20, 2024 Common pool resources comprise around 65 percent of Earth's surface and vast tracts of the ocean. While examples of successful governance of these resources exist, the circumstances and ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Estimates show global greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by at least half in 2030 at a cost of less than $100 per ton of CO2 equivalent. But a new paper shows there are underlying frictions that ...
Feb. 5, 2024 For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Researchers have outlined ambitious targets to help deliver a sustainable and net zero plastic economy. The authors argue for a rethinking of the technical, economic, and policy paradigms that have ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Modeling shows that stratospheric aerosol injection has the potential to reduce ice sheet loss due to climate ...
Jan. 29, 2024 An important question for policymakers worldwide is how to make climate and environmental policies acceptable among the populations. A new study sheds light on the preferences in five East African ...
Jan. 26, 2024 An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world's cities continue to grow at unprecedented ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Climate Change Policies Lose Popularity When Combined With Pausing Regulations or Social Justice
- Scientists Warn: The Grey Seal Hunt Is Too Large
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- Does Russia Stand to Benefit from Climate Change?
- Citizen Science to Mitigate the Environmental Crisis in the Marine Environment
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- Coastal Populations Set to Age Sharply in the Face of Climate Migration
- Accounting for Plastic Persistence Can Minimize Environmental Impacts
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
- Re-Calibrating the Sail Plan for Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders in Ocean Sciences
- Understanding Climate Mobilities: New Study Examines Perspectives from South Florida Practitioners
Friday, December 29, 2023
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Illuminating the Benefits of Marine Protected Areas for Ecotourism, and Vice Versa
- Climate: Why Disinformation Is So Persistent
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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- Threatened Sharks and Rays Caught Off Cyprus
- Keeping an Eye on the Regions When It Comes to Climate Change
Monday, October 30, 2023
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- Adapting to Climate Change: Individuals Take Action While Governments Plan
- Climate Report: 'Uncharted Territory' Imperils Life on Earth
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- Conservation in Indonesia Is at Risk, a Team of Researchers Who Study the Region Argues
- Developer Dollars Not Enough to Save Species
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- Scientists Call for Global Push to Eliminate Space Junk
- How Climate Change Threatens Asia's Water Tower
Friday, March 3, 2023
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- Tracking Ocean Microplastics from Space
- Marine Reserves Unlikely to Restore Marine Ecosystems
- What Makes People Care About the Environment?
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
- Protected Areas Fail to Safeguard More Than 75% of Global Insect Species
- 1. 5-Degree Goal Not Plausible: Social Change More Important Than Physical Tipping Points
Friday, January 27, 2023
Monday, January 23, 2023
- Study Reveals Influence of Krill Availability on Humpback Whale Pregnancies
- The Single Oil Spill That Can Disrupt the Global Energy Supply