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Plastic pollution is usually pictured as debris: a bottle on a beach, a bag drifting past a turtle, a tangle of abandoned net. Those images are accurate but they describe only the beginning of the story. Plastic in the o…
Environmental markets have become a familiar idea. Measure a unit of environmental harm, find someone who can prevent it more cheaply than you can, pay them to do so, and record the transaction as a tradeable credit. Car…
Five new marine protected areas came into effect in New Zealand in July after more than a decade of grassroots and governmental work, with a sixth expected to follow. The no-take reserves are co-managed by the regional M…
A fishing net is an indiscriminate instrument. Towed through the water or hung across a current, it catches whatever swims into it, and the ocean does not sort itself neatly into commercial species and everything else. T…
Antarctica is the only continent on Earth with no government, no permanent population, and no owner. It is larger than Europe, holds around ninety percent of the world's ice, and by rights should be among the most bitter…
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