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Designated ocean or coastal zones where human activities are restricted to protect marine ecosystems, species, and biodiversity.
Bezos Earth Fund has granted about $2.4 billion of Jeff Bezos's $10 billion climate pledge, leaving $7.6 billion to give away by the end of 2030. Meeting that deadline takes about $1.8 billion a year from a fund still paying out ocean grants in rounds of tens of millions.
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Nine yellow-morph green sea turtles tagged in the Galápagos in 2015 never left the marine reserve while their satellite tags transmitted, for up to 418 days. Only two were female, so the case for coastal protection is strong while breeding trips to distant beaches remain untested.
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A Plymouth-led team says the sediment mosaics it filmed are not fully described by the EUNIS habitat classes that guide UK marine management, on ground left free of bottom-towed gear for more than ten years.
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The framework, produced with Green Futures Solutions at the University of Exeter for Earthshot Prize judging, asks whether a solution's economics improve as it spreads, and it attaches a 2030 target to each area.
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Exeter and The Earthshot Prize say 51 solution areas sit near thresholds where progress becomes self-propelling. The prize co-wrote the report and will use it to choose what it backs through 2030.
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A Charles Darwin University risk assessment built with eight First Nations ranger groups located illegal fishing in waters that vessel tracking data cannot see, which is exactly where non-compliance would hide.
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Cleanup for the grounded Caroline Bezengi is put at $200m to $500m, the international fund built for exactly this caps out near $279m, and its spokesperson says an act-of-war exclusion applies, so Oman is spending its own money.
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Antarctic krill fishing closed three months early for the second year running. The catch cap held; the rule that spread the catch across four subareas expired in 2024 and was never replaced.
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