From Alaska to Patagonia: IUCN Red List of the Continental Ecosystems of the Americas
In 2008, IUCN launched a process for establishing an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems that uses quantitative criteria to categorizing ecosystems..
What Will Adaptation Cost? An Economic Framework for Coastal Community Infrastructure
The new report “What Will Adaptation Cost? An Economic Framework for Coastal Community Infrastructure” provides a framework …
Water Quality Threats to Marine Protected Areas
Learn about two programs to protect the water quality critical to the health and effectiveness of marine protected areas. EPA’s Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Program …
Demonstration of Marine Valuation Databases
Ecosystem services valuation data is abundant, yet often hard to find. This is especially true for the marine world which has seen a proliferation of valuable data …
Drawing the Line: Visualizing global MPA distribution using practical protection categories with MPAtlas.org
Currently, only about 1.8% of the world’s oceans are in MPAs; far less than the 12% of land area that is protected. Of the world’s MPAs,..