Thanks to Global Fishing Watch, a new partnership between Oceana, SkyTruth, and Google, scientists may be getting closer to figuring out how much of the world’s ocean is fished—but discrepancies in th...
The relationship between food and environment is one of the most important conservation issues in the anthropocene. Currently, agriculture uses 38% of the world’s land and accounts for over 90% of fre...
Every year, in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC), commercial halibut fishermen, through the Pacific Halibut Management Associ...
A paper released June 2018 in Nature Climate Change mapped the effects of future emissions on marine protected areas (MPAs) around the world. The paper concludes: "Although MPAs are widely promoted a...
In 1989 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and commercial halibut fishermen began working collaboratively to improve the sustainability of the wild Pacific halibut fishery. This involved moving from a...
Over the past 30 years, leading scientists in ecology and conservation biology have been claiming a biodiversity crisis, and have documented global extinctions of birds and mammals occurring at rates...
A Simon Fraser University researcher has determined that no serious damage was done to B.C.’s coast following the Fukushima nuclear-power-plant disaster in Japan seven years ago.
