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A good, hard look at what it would take for alternative, cell-based seafood to deliver conservation benefits reveals nine distinct steps. Meat alternatives are officially mainstream. To wit, Burger King added the plant-based Impossible Burger to its menu nationwide in 2019, and McDonald’s plans to unveil its own McPlant in 2021. Alongside these vegetarian options, many companies are also working to culture meat outside of animals grown from cell lines. Proponents highlight a range of potentia...

Researchers detail the long chain of events required for cultured seafood to deliver environmental benefits By Harrison Tasoff Santa Barbara, CA Meat...

Meat alternatives are officially mainstream. To wit, Burger King added the plant-based Impossible Burger to its menu nationwide in 2019, and McDonalds plans to unveil its own McPlant in 2021. Alongside these vegetarian options, many companies are also working to culture meat outside of animals grown from cell lines. Proponents highlight a range of potential environmental and health benefits offered by this emerging industry, and several companies believe that these benefits could also play out w...

Post-pandemic seafood could be more sustainable. Here’s how tech is driving the change. By Virginia Gewin © Provided by Popular Science A fisherman drops anchor at the first stop in a long night. Workdays can begin hours before dawn in Guaymas, Mexico, where a small cohort of locals launch modest fiberglass-and-wood boats from the rocky shore into waters that will gleam azure at sunrise. From their pangas, crafts about 20 feet long with little more than three bench seats an...

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There’s a symphony of sounds taking place under the ocean’s surface. But, what happens when these natural sounds are disrupted by things like a passing

Rain falls lightly on the ocean’s surface. Marine mammals chirp and squeal as they swim along. The pounding of surf along a distant shoreline heaves and thumps with metronomic regularity. These are the sounds that most of us associate with the marine environment. But the soundtrack of the healthy ocean no longer reflects the acoustic environment of today’s ocean, plagued with human-created noise. A global team of researchers set out to understand how human-made noise affects wildlife, from ...

Offspring born in the last four years before a female primate’s death are more likely to die at a young age, before their mother dies, research finds. If these kids make it, the negative effects of losing their mother will reach across generations, lessening the survival of their future children as well. Researchers used data collected across decades from seven species of primates from multiple regions of the world. Knowing which mothers had died and when, researchers started with a look at t...

December 7, 2020 at 10:30 am by Sean Crommelin The health of fishery stocks is of paramount importance to food security across the world. Billions of people rely on wild-caught and farmed seafood to provide their main source of protein. Unfortunately, fish stocks in recent years have found themselves in precarious positions following years of overexploitation. Freshly fished Larimichthys polyactis, or small yellow croaker, stored in plastic tubs and covered in ice. Courtesy of Cody S...

Camera traps document wildlife’s return to Gorongosa National Park Mozambique’s civil war, which raged from 1977 to 1992, took a devastating toll on wildlife in the country’s famed Gorongosa National Park, a 1,500-square-mile reserve at the southern tip of Africa’s Great Rift Valley. During the war, violence and food insecurity drove many people to hunt wild animals to feed themselves, resulting in the loss of more than 90% of the large mammals in the park. Nearly three decades later, a...