- Marine planning and management trainings added to Skimmer database
- Final session to negotiate new UN Law of the Sea high seas biodiversity treaty to begin in March (read analysis of draft treaty)
- Ireland publishes draft national marine planning framework
- Experts identify priority deep-sea areas for monitoring and conservation
- New paper examines the future of global food provision from the ocean
- Policy brief assesses 18 opportunities to increase ocean-based climate strategies
- Decarbonization and implementing adaptation measures can substantially reduce losses to global GDP from sea level rise
- Climate change and Brexit upsetting European fisheries
- US NOAA releases 2019 Arctic Report Card
- International coalition forms to advance ocean-based renewable energy
- New research shows that fisheries that are managed doing better than fisheries that are not
- Study reviews progress in integrating climate change adaptation into MPA design and management
- China phasing out single-use plastics – bans plastic bags in major cities by end of 2020
- New accounting method suggests far more microplastics in ocean than previously thought
Some more climate change-related news and resources:
- 2019 global temperatures second highest on record
- 2019 ocean heat highest on record (read news summary)
- Global warming speeding ocean circulation
- Study suggests ocean warming will undermine global food webs
- Rising ocean temperatures threatens marine aquaculture
- Large portions of world’s oceans becoming more stratified, potentially impacting food chains
- Study finds little suitable coral habitat will remain by 2100
- World Economic Forum finds top five global risks over next decade are environmental and over half of global GDP dependent on nature
And some other recent news articles that caught our attention: