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Photo by Ray Harrington on Unsplash The cruise ship industry should be subject to global monitoring and effective legislation because of its

Cruise ships are a potential source of human health risks to passengers, staff and land-based residents who live near ports or work in shipyards.

 E-Mail Scientists have proposed the first steps towards a united global plan to save our oceans, for the sake of human health. An interdisciplinary European collaboration called the Seas Oceans and Public Health In Europe (SOPHIE) Project, led by the University of Exeter and funded by Horizons 2020, has outlined the initial steps that a wide range of organisations could take to work together to protect the largest connected ecosystem on Earth. In a commentary paper published in the American...