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For thousands of years, the natural world has allowed human societies to flourish by providing food, water, and materials for shelter and medicine.

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Since it first emerged with the bold vision of cleaning plastics from the seas way back in 2013, the Ocean Cleanup Project has made many tweaks to the design of its trash-catching barriers.

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Biodiversity...underpins the resources needed for the survival of life itself. However, species are becoming extinct faster than ever, and humans are largely to blame.

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NOAA has cited seven countries as engaged in IUU fishing, including Mexico, and an additional 29 countries or entities as lacking effective regulatory programs to combat bycatch, including the European Union.

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The program will also quantify the value of other benefits these ecosystems provide for coastal protection, fisheries and biodiversity. Mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes, also known as ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems, lock up carbon at faster rates than most land ecosystems.

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Planting trees and replenishing forests are among the simplest and most appealing natural climate solutions, but the impact of trees on atmospheric temperature is more complex than meets the eye.

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We have a slow food movement and a slow travel movement. But we’re missing something, and its absence contributes to our escalating crisis. We need a slow ecology movement, and we need it fast.

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On July 29, the two-day Wokisok Shark Calling Festival began at Kono village, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea... it's a seasonal rite where fishers paddle out from shore and summon sharks with noise and motion makers...

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Well, we are back from our epic voyage, our own odyssey to the Pa Tokerau, our northern group in the Cook Islands, after seven weeks away on our Marumaru Atua.

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