The ocean’s role as a carbon superpower was only recently quantified in the 1990s and, as it turns out, it is responsible for diverting up to a third of all anthropogenic carbon from entering the atmosphere since the industrial...
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Shoring Up Against Sea Level Rise
Sea level rise is a pressing issue when it comes to climate change. Many coastal communities already face deadly and dangerous storms, flooding, and structural damage, and the number of those affected is likely to increase((US EPA, O. Climate...
Marine Ecotourism
Protecting the Sea – MPAs as a Strategy
Though “marine conservation” feels like a recent concept, the protection of coastal and ocean ecosystems can be traced far back in humanity’s history. Many island societies, such as those of Palau, had the notion of personal stewardship of the...
The Sargasso Sea: Turtle Daycare and Underwater Rainforest
In the 1870 science fiction novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne describes the Nautilus’ arrival in the Sargasso Sea, and notes its striking and almost alien appearance: “Such was the region the Nautilus was now visiting, a perfect...