Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Stuart Braun Plastics & Pollution
1.3 billion plastic bottles are sold daily around the world. And that's just the tip of the fossil-based plastic iceberg.
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Bubba Cook Fisheries & Aquaculture
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare some of the challenges and inadequacies of the global seafood supply chain.
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Louisa Montagu-Pollock
The world faces an unprecedented set of challenges, from a global pandemic and rampant income inequality, to man-made climate change and the destruction of natural ecosystems.
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Olivia Rosane Plastics & Pollution
Scientists have discovered the highest concentration of microplastics ever recorded on the seafloor—1.9 million pieces in one square meter (approximately 11 square feet) of the Mediterranean.
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Mark Stopha, Alaska Fish & Wildlife News Fisheries & Aquaculture
Fledgling kelp farmers are joining Alaska’s wild kelpers in developing a promising new industry in Alaska waters.
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Liz Allen, Forbes Plastics & Pollution
While we know plastic is terrible for marine life, detecting plastic pollution in the ocean is notoriously challenging.
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Megan Howell and Rob Fletcher
Alexia Akbay, founder and CEO of seaweed farming start-up Symbrosia, explains to The Fish Site how the company aims to both reduce the carbon footprint and improve the productivity of ruminant livestock agriculture.
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Kevin Dickinson Plastics & Pollution
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
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David Hume, World Ocean Initiative / The Economist Group Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
Guest blogger David Hume, marine energy manager with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US, considers the role of innovation hubs in nurturing blue economy businesses.
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Ali Trueworthy, The Liquid Grid Energy Solutions
Ali Trueworthy, a student at Oregon State University and researcher at PMEC, sat-down with the PMEC directors from each university, Dr. Brian Polagye, Dr. Jeremy Kasper, and Dr. Bryson Robertson, to get their thoughts on the future of the center, marine energy, and the blue economy.
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Matthew Mulrennan
This week represents 50 laps around the sun since the first Earth Day. Although environmental challenges are not to be underestimated, there is much to be optimistic about for the next 50 years as an unlikely ally, the financial sector, is helping turn the ‘environmental economy’ into ‘the economy’.
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Courtney Humphries
Resiliency is the hot buzzword in developing Boston’s waterfront. But what is it? And might it be better to just not build there at all?
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UN News Fisheries & Aquaculture
More people than ever rely on fisheries and aquaculture for food, and income, but the seafood industry is facing a “dangerous” sustainability divide when comparing trends in the developed world versus those in poorer regions, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed on Monday.
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Netflix
California’s kelp forests are currently facing a major threat: deforestation. The root of this issue can be attributed to small, spiny invertebrates – purple sea urchins.
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C. Drew Harvell
They are resilient and immunologically cunning in ways we’re continuing to discover.
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Graham Readfearn
While emissions reduction is the only long-term solution, scientists are testing ways to keep the reef going in a warming world
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IUCN Plastics & Pollution
Plastic pollution is the most widespread problem affecting the marine environment. It also threatens ocean health, food safety and quality, human health, coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change.
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Cara Giaimo
It’s actually been done before. Now the challenge is to scale up—way up.
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Linwood Pendleton, Karen Evans, and Martin Visbeck
The current scale, pace, and practice of ocean scientific discovery and observation are not keeping up with the changes in ocean and human conditions. We need fundamental changes in the way that researchers work with decision makers to co-create knowledge that will address pressing development problems.
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Rachel Cooper Energy Solutions
Norway has approved plans for Equinor’s floating wind farm.
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