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What is seabed mining, and why does it threaten the ocean?
Seabed mining is a new threat, at a time when the oceans are facing more threats now than at any time in history. Cumulative pressures from overfishing, climate change and pollution are putting our big blue planet
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How does overfishing make climate change worse?
For the oceans, one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss is industrial-scale fishing. Fish stocks and ocean ecosystems are in decline in many parts of the world because of overfishing and destructive techniques.
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Reasons to be cheerful (in the long term)
Despite all the other flibberty gibbet behaviours that come at this stage of the electoral cycle, the latest polls give some hope that there’s a developing appetite for long term thinking.
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The North Sea’s choice: Revolution or Destruction?
Since its beginning in the 1960s, the North Sea oil industry has earned billions of Euros profit and helped fill the coffers of a number of European governments. At the…
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Slowing the circular economy
COVID has underlined the deep mutual connection and reliance we have with the natural world. It is also showing that our current socio-economic systems — driven by hectic lifestyles, mindless…
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Sharks are thriving at the Kermadec Islands, but not the rest of New Zealand, amid global decline
Sharks are thriving at the Kermadec Islands, but not the rest of NZ, shows new report.
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Cabo Pulmo, an ocean sanctuary success story for people and wildlife
Cabo Pulmo is a coral reef in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It’s home to a huge variety of life including lots of different fishes, crustaceans, molluscs, birds.
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World Conservation Day: 6 conservation success stories from around the world
History shows that if we move fast and act with courage, humanity can protect and restore our most important places, and bring amazing creatures back from the edge of extinction.
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Synthetic fertiliser emits more greenhouse gases than domestic aviation
We are in a worsening climate crisis, but despite New Zealand’s ‘clean green’ credentials, successive Governments have failed to take meaningful action on reducing climate emissions.
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Fires are raging in the Amazon—again
One year has passed since the world was shocked by the images of the fires blazing across the Amazon in Brazil. But since then, the forest hasn’t stopped burning —and 2020 could…