With the global population now well over seven billion there are few remaining parts of the world relatively untouched by human activity. We assess the current state and future prospects of five final…
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Seagrass stores carbon 35 times faster than rainforests, preventing billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases escaping every year, but its crucial role in slowing climate change has been largely overlooked…
The EU prides itself to have established, in 2011, the European Union’s [Emissions Trading System](http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets/index_en.htm](http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets/index_en.htm…
It’s turning out to be a great summer for jellyfish. Spectacular blooms of ‘blue blubbers’ are occurring in Moreton Bay, Queensland; Cable Beach near Broome was littered with tonnes of stranded ‘sea tomatoes…
The $4.5 billion (US) fine levied on BP for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the northern Gulf of Mexico was the “largest-ever criminal resolution in US history” and has been…
The risk with climate change is not with the direct effect of humans on the greenhouse capacity of Earth’s atmosphere. The major risk is that the relatively modest human perturbation will unleash much…
Google News contains more than 51,000 English-language news items about the melting Arctic. Five hundred of them were generated in the 60 minutes before we decided to write this article. This avalanche…
News that the Dutch owned “Abel Tasman” super trawler may have to leave Australian waters after the lower house passed laws to freeze its operations for at least two years is well received. Allowing the…
In August 2009, a blowout at the Montara wellhead platform became Australia’s third-largest oil spill. Three years later, a fine of $510,000 has been levied on the Thai-based oil company PTT Exploration…
A new historic minimum in Arctic sea ice provides additional evidence of rapid acceleration of Arctic ice loss, propelled, beyond a reasonable doubt, by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Norwegian…
While surfing recently in WA’s newly established Ngari Capes Marine Park, one of us was asked several questions by other surfers about the new marine protected areas. These and other questions have been…
The US corn crop has failed due to the severe drought and extreme temperatures experienced in the US this year. But the US is not alone, Ukraine, also a major exporter of grain, has banned wheat…
Scientists have identified skin cancer in the Great Barrier Reef’s wild fish populations which is almost identical to melanomas found in humans. The team of researchers from the Australian Institute of…
Australians, with one of the highest prevalence of health problems in the world caused by exposure to UV radiation, are very aware of the dangers of elevated UV radiation. The prevalence of skin cancer…
Carbon emissions are drawn deep into the Southern Ocean by plunging currents, scientists have found, challenging the idea that carbon is locked away from the atmosphere by being absorbed across vast areas…
The fifth deadly attack in 10 months by a White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) has released all alarms among Western Australians. The fatalities in Western Australia have been said to exceed, by a factor…
Australia’s brand-new marine park proposal has great historic precedent. For hundreds of years, ocean managers have found that reducing fishing can repair fish stocks and benefit not just ocean species…
After a long silence while trying to keep afloat as my home country, Spain, sinks in a storm of greed I am back at The Conversation! Oceans Day, on June 8, was a springboard to ponder on the status of…
Seagrass meadows are prevalent elements of Australian coastal waters, a submarine laurel crown around our country. The dark patches of water, in contrast with the turquoise blue of bare sand, that we see…
A number of comments to my previous post on the role of aquaculture as a milestone in the history of humanity have clearly identified one of the key problems for the growth of aquaculture: that some of…
About 12,000 years humans initiated the domestication of plants and animals in the fertile crescent thereby developing the capacity to control the production of their food. The development of agriculture…
The Royal Society of the UK has released a new report, People and the Planet, addressing the problem of human overpopulation and the depletion of key resources. As always, the report is well written, although…
The fields of Majorca (Spain) are in full blooming at the height of spring, and bees are very busy pollinating this unplanned garden. I am happy to welcome them to the citrus orchard in my backyard, as…
This Sunday we are celebrating Earth’s day, and Earth corresponded to our recognition by slowly spinning once again around its own axis, thereby allowing us to enjoy yet one more beautiful sunrise and…
Last week I visited the University of Virginia, one of the oldest in the US, invited to deliver a Moore Lecture (title: “Warming, Hypoxia and Ocean Acidification: A deadly cocktail for marine biota…
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