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The Emperor Seamount Chain is a massive and richly biodiverse set of underwater mountains stretching about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) south from the Aleutian Islands in the northwest Pacific. From the 1960s until the 1980s, bottom trawlers plied the area aggressively, decimating deep-sea coral communities and fish stocks, and removing biomass to a degree not […]
The pressure is building around critical negotiations that could, if successful, shield swathes of the world’s ocean
As negotiators gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York this week to hammer out a new treaty on the oceans, scientists and environmentalists have warned that the world has a "once in a lifetime" chance to safeguard the high seas from exploitation.
Negotiators aim to agree on legal framework for protecting international waters that are key to ‘life as we know it’
For The Maui News Cecelia âCeceâ Frisinger lets a young âuaâu (Hawaiian petrel) fly out to sea. If you find a seabird on the ground, call 573-BIRD (2473) and someone will come pick it up where it can rest safely overnight. â Photo courtesy of Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project “At one time there were so many seabirds in Hawaii they blackened the sky,” says Jay Penniman, manager of the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project. Seabirds have been in Hawaii for a long time, first arriving around 70 million years ago. The earliest colonists nested on what’s now known as th...