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Researchers, biologists and Indigenous communities are working to bring the plant species—and its benefits to healthy shorelines and carbon storage—back to Nova Scotia’s coastlines.

MALIKO’MIJK, Canada — Decades ago, the sea around Maliko’mijk Island was an expansive green carpet of eelgrass, the meadows so thick that members of the Pictou Landing First Nation had to cut channels through them for their boats to pass. But on a drizzly September day, as boats carrying scientists and elders pull up to […]

The new centre at Dalhousie will feature 60 exhibits that include aquariums, a kelp forest and a skeleton of a blue whale.

A new study has found that nearly 90% of assessed marine life will be at high or critical risk by the year 2100 if climate change accelerates along a high-emissions pathway, and that these species will face risks across 85% of their native ranges in the ocean. “It’s a pretty bleak picture,” Alex Pigot, study […]

A new climate report card paints a grim future if emissions aren't reduced: "Climate change is rewiring marine ecosystems at an alarming rate."

The study shows almost all marine life is already at risk, particularly species like sharks and pufferfish, especially if we cannot find a way to start mitigating risks now.

Protecting marine ecosystems and fisheries from climate change is a global priority but a new QUT-led, international study finds that our lack of...

Fact Checking Patrick Moore, Climate Skeptic The ex-Greenpeacer claims his new book is science-based. It’s gaining traction. But when contacted, researchers he cites said he got their work wrong. Sean Holman covered B.C. politics for 10 years and is now a journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. SHARES Moore wrongly claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn’t conclude the climate is changing faster than in the past. Actuall...

Shark catastrophe points to failure to enact global biodiversity agreements by Anna Nordseth on 19 April 2021 A high-profile study published in Nature found a 70% decline in shark and ray populations over the last half century. Like many other taxonomic groups, shark and ray declines are driven by human actions — in this case, overfishing by commercial fisheries. Experts are calling for a retention ban by the EU to prevent to collapse of threatened shark populations. A near-sharkless open oc...