Oceans are vital for the transport of goods and data - but they are not in good shape. How can we reconcile the benefits for people and the protection of the oceans? How can the sea be sustainably used and protected?
Could a probiotic 'vaccination' protect tropical corals from environmental stress? Researchers have been observing large-scale coral bleaching since the 1980s, caused in particular by climate change and the resulting continuous rise in water temperatures in our oceans.
Only within the last couple decades have social science and humanities scholars intentionally taken their disciplines offshore and into the depths of the sea. Academic and policy circles now recognize the justification for interdisciplinary ocean research. Such efforts have brought attention to the ocean’s importance to every aspect of our lives. This turn has not ...
This text is written by Fentje Maake who joined the Marine Governance Group at HIFMB for two weeks in October as part of a school internship to understand the work of university researchers in the social sciences, and in the study of oceanic management for biodiversity.
Over the past months life has been severely impacted by Covid. The pandemic has wiped the previous problems, the Australian wildfires and the rise of disinformation, off the news and off people’s minds. However, to the network scientist an important parallel exists: All of these phenomena can be understood as spreading processes on networks.
The IPBES 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is the new global synthesis of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment published in 2005, and the first that is inter-governmental.
