The Conversation
What Effects Will Trump's New Tariffs Have on Trade?
It’s official. On February 1, US President Donald Trump introduced a sweeping set of new 25% tariffs on impor...
Beijing Struggles to Control Provinces as They Expand Distant-Water Fleet
[By Hang Zhou] Since the late 2010s, China has shown increasing sensitivity to the environmental and socioeconomic im...
Svalbard's Glaciers Have Lost an Area the Size of Manhattan Into the Sea
[By Tian Li, Jonathan Bamber and Konrad Heidler] The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster&n...
Marine Science Nonprofit Elects "The Ocean" to Join its Board
[By Anna Turns] The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the atmosphere’s excess heat trapped by human-emit...
Op-Ed: We Need to Turn the Central Arctic Ocean Into a Marine Reserve
[By Kirsten Freja Young and Brendan Godley] At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island o...
North Atlantic Right Whales Die Decades Earlier Than Antarctic Cousins
[By Greg Breed and Peter Corkerton] Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10%...
Thousands of Aging Shipwrecks Pose Global Environmental Threat
[By Fraser Stuart] At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from two world wars. These wre...
Eating Fish Exposes Consumers to Microplastics, With Unknown Risk
[By Prof. Amelie Chatel] It’s no secret: when we savor a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we&rs...
Study: Meltwater from the Arctic is Weakening Atlantic Ocean Circulation
[By Laurie Menviel and Gabriel Pontes] A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean...
Port of Weifang Becomes China's First "Carbon-Neutral" Seaport
[By Jiang Mengnan] Weifang Port has become the first port in China to officially achieve carbon neutrality, amid a hu...