Dr. Tom Pickerell, global director of the World Resources Institute’s Ocean Program, introduces the 100% Alliance, a new campaign calling on all coastal and ocean states to commit to sustainably manage 100 percent of ocean areas under their national jurisdictions by 2030.
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A treaty in the works for marine life protection in the high seas might not be an entirely good thing, Nature reports. For the treaty to be official, nations must agree to a system for creating large marine sanctuaries on the high seas and lay out rules for how industry operates in these waters. The most contentious issue is how
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An interview with Denis Hayes, the organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970 who has continued the work through the international Earth Day Network, gives the environmental leader a forum to call for an end to plastic pollution. Talking with Mongabay, Hayes discusses the original impetus for Earth Day, its development over the years and the 2018 Earth Day theme:
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