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Those who worry about the coexistence of offshore wind and fishing cite the need to catch up on renewable energy resources to adapt to changing climate.

/PRNewswire/ -- XDimensional Technologies (XDTI) announced today that Parker, Smith & Feek has gone live with its Marine Program on the Nexsure Insurance...

/PRNewswire/ -- XDimensional Technologies (XDTI) announced today that Parker, Smith & Feek has gone live with its Marine Program on the Nexsure Insurance...

NOAA seeks public comments on the plan, which includes a 156-mile stretch along the coast of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties

Map Unavailable Date/Time Date(s) - 08/06/2021All Day Categories Event For further information, please contact: Clean Arctic Alliance Email: events@hfofreearctic.org Register here This event will link shipping’s black carbon emissions with the IMO’s short-term measures to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions with the Arctic climate emergency. At the end of May, Arctic Foreign Ministers announced ...

Article bookmarked Dont show me this message again✕ The ocean might not be the first thing most of us think about when we consider which sunscreen to purchase. SPF protection, scent, moisturizing capabilities and of course price are likely to all top the list of our concerns. But that’s likely because we aren’t aware of just how damaging traditional sun lotions can be to sea life. Two of the most popular ingredients in many chemical sun creams, oxybenzone and octinoxate, have been found t...

May 17, 2021 To prevent seabirds from being caught in fishing nets, conservationists have developed an unusual aquatic scarecrow which the GNN staff summarily agreed looked just like Pixar’s WALL-E. Copyright Andres Kalamees, Estonian Ornithological Society Invented as part of a multinational effort to create innovative solutions to prevent seabird bycatch, a pair of googly-eyes mounted on a floating buoy was found to decrease the numbers of long-tailed ducks loitering around gillnets in Esto...

An online event, April 27, 2021, organised by: Iceland Nature Conservation Association (INCA) and the Clean Arctic Alliance (CAA) How can the shipping industry become actors of positive change for the Arctic region? How can we inspire political will and decisive action by governments? What role can Iceland and other Arctic Council states play? How ...

Ahead of the Arctic Council Ministerial in May, hosted by Iceland, this webinar aims to highlight the climate crisis in the Arctic, the impacts of these changes and what Arctic governments and the shipping sector can contribute to tackle the Arctic climate crisis. The Arctic is undergoing an acceleration in dramatic and unprecedented changes. Warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, the Arctic has seen temperatures soar to 38oC in Arctic Russia, and lowest ever July Arctic sea ice extten on ...

Calls for Marine Stewardship Council to raise bar on shark finning Published 1 month ago A recent report criticises the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for failing in its stated ‘zero tolerance’ approach to shark finning and calls for urgent reform. Shark populations globally are on the brink of collapse under fishing pressure: an estimated 63—273 million sharks are killed each year and numbers of oceanic sharks have dropped by 71% since 1970. A major driver of this unsustainable exploi...