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Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin

DeSmogBlog

The Bayou Bridge pipeline has left a dam across the Atchafalaya Basin affecting the fisheries, the birds, the otters, minks, raccoons, and nutria,” Meche said. Tags: Bayou Bridge pipeline Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Energy Tranfer Partners

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Unique monitoring project will study the seas around Ireland and Western Scotland

Envirotec Magazine

Listening stations from Malin Head – Ireland’s most northerly point – to the island of Islay in Scotland will record transmissions from a variety of mobile marine species tagged by the project’s scientists.

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REDEEMing pumping stations for eels

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Jon Bolland of the University of Hull’s International Fisheries Institute (HIFI) discusses a new project that aims to make pumping equipment more amenable to aquatic life. Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8% Environmental DNA: HIFI is optimising molecular techniques that detect DNA left behind in river water by resident fish.

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'Net zero is a no regret policy': How climate action could boost UK GDP by 9.1 per cent

Business Green

The UK and US research team behind the report analysed a range of previous studies to come up with their estimates, taking into consideration nine physical climate impact areas, including agriculture, livestock and fisheries, drought, flooding, and coastal damage. per cent of national GDP, the researchers calculated.

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In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics

Grist

In 2016, for example, the federal government shared radio tag information with the state, which used it to kill wolves when they left the safety of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve — destroying so many packs that it ended a 20-year study on predator-prey relationships.

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These urchin slayers are trying to save California’s underwater ‘rainforest’

Grist

We’re losing really critically important systems, which means losing fisheries, losing recreational opportunity, losing carbon sequestration, losing coastal protection,” said Fiorenza Micheli, a marine ecologist and co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions. Grist / Sierra Rose Garcia.

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These urchin slayers are trying to save California’s underwater ‘rainforest’

Grist

We’re losing really critically important systems, which means losing fisheries, losing recreational opportunity, losing carbon sequestration, losing coastal protection,” said Fiorenza Micheli, a marine ecologist and co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions. Grist / Sierra Rose Garcia.

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