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Seagrass Helps to Eliminate Plastics from Coastal Areas

A new study has reported that Posidonia oceanica seagrass—a kind of endemic marine phanerogam that plays a crucial ecological role in the marine environment—can trap and eliminate plastic materials abandoned at the sea.

15 Jan 2021

Rising Temperatures Could Dramatically Alter Carbon Storage in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Rising temperatures could trigger Earth's terrestrial ecosystems to transition from carbon sinks to carbon sources in the next 20 to 30 years, according to data from the world's largest continuous carbon monitoring network.

15 Jan 2021

New Classification Reveals Differential Conservation Approaches Across Ecosystems

A new study co-authored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Global Conservation Program and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation that enables the assessment of whether and to what extent a management shift toward transformative action is occurring in conservation.

15 Jan 2021

Dastur Selected to Design and Evaluate Techno-Economic Feasibility of India’s Largest Carbon Capture and Utilization Project at IOCL’s Flagship Koyali Refinery

Ridgewood, NJ based Dastur International, Inc., along with its Austin, TX based affiliate Dastur Energy Inc. and M. N. Dastur & Co (P) Ltd. (Dastur); Houston, TX based Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions (Air Liquide); and the Austin, TX based Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin, have been selected to carry out the design and feasibility for India’s largest industrial carbon capture and utilization (CCUS) project at the 13.7 million tons per annum (mtpa) Koyali refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL). Dastur is the prime contractor and will lead the project.

From Dastur & Company (P) Ltd. 15 Jan 2021

Are Partially Protected Areas the 'red herrings' of Marine Conservation?

Partially protected marine areas create confusion and don’t meet their broad conservation objectives, UNSW researchers have found.

15 Jan 2021

Rigorous Fisheries Management Practices Lead To Healthier Fish Populations

Fish populations tend to do better in places where rigorous fisheries management practices are used, and the more measures employed, the better for fish populations and food production, according to a new paper published Jan. 11 in Nature Sustainability.

12 Jan 2021

Researchers Test Capacity of Staghorn Coral Skeletons to Support Restoration Efforts

The endangered coral reefs in Florida have over $4 billion yearly economic effects on the state’s economy, and scientists from the University of Central Florida (UCF) are focusing on one factor that could be restricting their survival— the strength of the coral skeleton.

11 Jan 2021

Researchers Identify Slimy Microbes that may Protect Corals Against Nutrient Imbalances

Corals have evolved over millennia to live, and even thrive, in waters with few nutrients.

11 Jan 2021

IFAD and GCF Scale-up Action to Improve Life for Millions of People and Restore Ecosystems in Africa’s Great Green Wall

Millions of poor farmers living in the world’s most climate-impacted parts of the Sahel have cause for hope today because of their governments’ support for accelerating Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW), an area covering 11 countries from Senegal and Mali in the West to Ethiopia and Djibouti in the East.

11 Jan 2021

Diverse Strategies are Needed to Address Climate Change in Marine Ecosystems

Carlos Duarte, a prominent marine ecologist from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), explained that “Conserving the world’s oceans and coastal ecosystems is a no-regrets strategy posing huge benefits for people and planet.”

8 Jan 2021