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  • ‘Upcycling' Ocean Plastic Trash Comes into Fashion

    August 07, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: United States, Cape Porpoise, Maine

    When global oil prices drop, so do incentives to recycle plastic materials, and even more plastic debris and trash ends up collecting in our oceans and ecosystem. An alternative solution in the form of "up-cycling" is helping to combat plastic pollution, as nonprofits and do-gooders who gather beach and ocean trash partner up with companies and retailers to produce desirable products crafted from materials collected out of the oceans.

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  • Robot Revolution: New Generation of Cheap Drones to Explore the Seas

    July 31, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Half Moon Bay, California

    There's a robot revolution happening in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it's all in the name of mapping our oceans. This boom of technological innovation is helping bring lower-cost tools to both researchers and citizens. These consumers in turn use the devices to take photos during their excursions that ultimately create a network of ocean data that helps map the realities of concerns such as ocean acidification, rising water temperatures and overfishing.

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  • Ghost Gear Busters: Paying Fishers to Collect Derelict Nets, Traps

    July 26, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

    "Ghost gear" describes the nets, lines, and other debris lost off the back of commercial fishing boats in staggering amounts each year, and it spells death for hundreds of thousands of marine animals and birds who get tangled in it. Previously, there was little financial incentive to pull this litter back out of the water, but a new public-private partnership called Fishing For Energy is paying fishers to gather up ghost gear and help recycle it, as well as developing new technologies to prevent bycatch and educating communities about the issue.

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  • Mexico launches pioneering scheme to insure its coral reef

    July 20, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cancún, Quintana Roo

    Climate change is a mounting threat to coral reefs, which serve not just as critical habitats for ocean life and a draw for the tourism industry, but also as a buffer to the increasing storms caused by changing weather patterns. In the first scheme of its kind, private businesses, nonprofits, and the government in Mexico's Yucatán Penninsula are combining financial resources to take out an insurance policy on their coral reefs. The insurance will help rebuild the reefs after storms and man-made damage, and fund new ways to keep them healthy.

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  • Madagascar: No more fish? We'll farm seaweed instead

    June 25, 2017 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Madagascar, Tampolove

    Adapting to climate change in coastal areas means adjusting local fishing and cultivation practices. Residents of Velondriake, a locally managed marine area in southern Madagascar, have introduced seaweed and algae farming as an alternative to fishing. With the help of Blue Ventures, an NGO based in the UK, and the University of Toliara, residents are monitoring their ecosystem and finding new markets for their harvests.

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  • When New York Harbor Is Your Classroom

    May 25, 2017 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s Harbor School is a public school that provides students with a comprehensive education in oceanic issues. Classes happen in a traditional classroom on Governor’s Island as well as on the harbor. Through this school, students living in an urban environment have a chance to connect to the environment and receive hands on training for maritime jobs.

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  • Vietnam's response to climate change? A shrimp and mangrove cocktail

    May 23, 2017 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Ben Tre Province

    Increasing salinization of water sources and droughts as a result of climate change have threatened traditional agricultural practices in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. But The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Netherlands Development Agency are helping teach farmers to adapt by showing them how to work with the saltier waters, establishing organic shrimp farms instead of growing rice and preserving the valuable mangroves that protect their coastline from storms.

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  • Hope, love prevail in conserving endangered Philippine cockatoo

    May 02, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Rasa Island, Palawan

    The Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Program on Rasa Island has taken a multi-faceted approach to conservation - by employing former poachers to help protect the very species they once threatened. Through a combination of education in local schools, coordinations with government bodies, NGO training and support, as well as local volunteers and engaging the community, they are striving to restore the iconic cockatoo population, as well as preserving the other plants and animals that call this area home, and the local villages that depend on these resources for survival.

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  • Making Energy with Waves and NASA

    March 24, 2017 |

    Paste Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The United States is making its move to catch up with European countries that have found ways to convert the energy of the oceans' waves into a form or useable renewable energy.

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  • Shampoo bottle made from ocean plastics hailed as ‘technological breakthrough'

    January 25, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: France

    P&G, the manufacturer of popular shampoo Head & Shoulders, is teaming up with a recycling business and waste management company to turn discarded plastic found on the beaches of France into special edition shampoo bottles. Although the impact is small in terms of bottles produced, the amount of recycled content is a "technological breakthrough" compared to what other companies have achieved.

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