Tag: Overfishing

  • Science & Tech

    Mercury levels in fish are on the rise

    A new study concludes that while the regulation of mercury emissions have successfully reduced methylmercury levels in fish, spiking temperatures are driving those levels back up and will play a major role in the methylmercury levels of marine life in the future.

    Fish swimming in ocean
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    Fishing gaps called malnutrition threat

    Declining fish catches around the world have set off concerns about malnutrition, especially among the poor.

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    Altered oceans

    Proper management can bring species back from the brink and create healthier ocean ecosystems, experts said during a Center for the Environment panel.

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    An ocean of bad tidings

    Jeremy B.C. Jackson earned his first chops as a scholar by studying the ecological impacts of an event that unfolded over the last 15 million years: the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, dividing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and setting off profound evolutionary oceanic and terrestrial changes.