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  • Cleaning New York's filthy harbor with one billion oysters

    January 17, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Since 2014, the Billion Oyster Project has been working to restore oyster reefs to the New York coasts in an attempt to reduce pollution and bring back marine life. In partnership with restaurants and students throughout the city, the foundation and grant funded project is seeing the return of some oyster reefs and using artificial reefs to support more marine life.

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  • How a Guatemalan Town Tackled Its Plastic Problem

    January 03, 2019 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, San Pedro La Laguna

    San Pedro La Laguna, a town in Guatemala, has banned single use plastics including plastic bags and straws after realizing that plastic pollution was ruining the ecosystem of Lake Atitlan and that a new waste facility would be unable to handle the amount of garbage created in the village. To ensure that people follow the new regulation, there are heavy fees - but the town also bought traditionally made biodegradable replacements; the change is being framed as a way to return to traditional, indigenous ways for the communities.

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  • Meet Greece's Marine Trash Collectors Diving To Keep Their Sea Beautiful

    December 02, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: Greece

    Greece is not known favorably for their recycling habits, but a few local residents have made it their mission to change this in order to reduce ocean litter. From turning plastics into furniture to forming a diving coalition to remove plastic waste from the sea, these Greeks are hoping their actions will inspire others to follow suit.

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  • Florida's Counties Grapple With the Rotten Harvest of Red Tide

    November 28, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The Red Tide that hit the coast of Florida in 2018 resulted in a massive amount of waste and dead sea species washing ashore. With no protocol in place to clean up the toxic mess, counties had to learn while doing. From failures to successes, the state is now better equipped to mobilize should a similar event happen in the future.

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  • Inside the daring plan to map every coral reef from space

    October 29, 2018 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Researchers are using satellite imagery and data to create the first global, high-resolution map of all coral reefs. The project, known as the Allen Coral Atlas, will help provide a baseline for scientists to monitor bleaching events and other short-term changes, which could lead to devastating changes.

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  • A sea change: how one small island showed us how to save our oceans

    October 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Isle of Man

    Over the last ten years, the Isle of Man has worked to implement regulations around plastic pollution, climate change and overfishing. From a locally owned beach clean-up charity to creating marine nature reserves, the Isle of Man is now a model for neighboring countries on how to achieve this level of success.

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  • Ocean plastic is a huge problem. Blockchain could be part of the solution.

    October 16, 2018 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Haiti

    Plastic waste often ends up in oceans which in turn impacts not only the health of the coastal ecosystem, but human health as well when people consume fish that have ingested the plastic fragments. To keep plastic out of the oceans, Plastic Bank, a company based in Vancouver, has created and launched a blockchain-based recycling system in Haiti that exchanges cryptocurrency via an app when plastic is deposited in a recycling center.

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  • Rescuing Sea Turtles From Fishermen's Nets

    October 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Watamu

    In fishing communities, it isn't uncommon for fishermen to accidentally entrap endangered sea turtles. A non-profit in Kenya, however, has figured out a way to not only help raise awareness about the importance of releasing the turtles, but also to build trust with the fishermen and incentivize the releases.

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  • Spawning an Intervention

    September 26, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Curaçao, Willemstad

    Because of drastic reef declines globally, coral reef restoration efforts have gained support in recent years. To understand how to do it, a hardy band of conservationists in the Caribbean are looking at how corals reproduce. But as these scientists acknowledge, raising corals is challenging and complex. And such restoration is no silver bullet for continual habitat loss, pollution, and ocean acidification.

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  • Getting Purple Sea Urchins Out Of California Waters

    September 04, 2018 |

    WBUR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    Purple sea urchins are taking over the coast of California, diminishing the supply of bull kelp and causing problems for the underwater ecosystem. Divers from a broad range of backgrounds are volunteering to remove a portion of the population in order to restore balance.

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