Nick Meynen nick.meynen@eeb.org of EJOLT, the Environmental Justice Project, has just sent us the following information. The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project has just launched its Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, a visually attractive and interactive online mapping platform detailing around 1000 environmental conflicts (and growing). It allows users to search and […]
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- Global Atlas of environmental conflicts launched in Brussels
- Hard-to-fish areas in Celtic Sea are a refuge for skate and rays
- SeaOrbiter to explore the oceans
Marine scientists working in the Celtic Sea have discovered a natural refuge for the critically endangered flapper skate. Many elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates) are highly vulnerable to over-fishing, but a new paper in the open access journal PLOS ONE shows that small areas of the seabed that experience below-average fishing intensity can sustain greater […]
The SeaOrbiter is an ocean going research vessel. Its launch is expected some time in 2013. Similar to a space ship, the SeaOrbiter is planned to allow scientists and others a residential yet mobile research station positioned under the oceans’ surface. The station will have laboratories, workshops, living quarters and a pressurized deck to support […]
