by Blue Forests Project | Oct 15, 2018 | Exposure News
Nature is a powerful ally in tackling climate change. Yet it does not receive the attention it deserves in the debate about how to accomplish a transition towards a zero net emission society. Natural ecosystems such as forests, soils and peatlands are the most...
by Blue Forests Project | Oct 9, 2018 | Exposure News
by Alicia Medina Villanueva & Juliane VatterWhen talking about mangroves, the funny looking trees with entangled roots living in the coasts of tropical and subtropical regions, there is so much you can say! First of all, there are around 80 described species...
by Blue Forests Project | Oct 1, 2018 | Exposure News
Namatakula is a small village in Fiji found on a long stretch of the country’s most beautiful coastline: the Coral Coast. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock from around the world to this 80 kilometre stretch of white sand and turquoise water.But the...
by Blue Forests Project | Sep 27, 2018 | Exposure News
Cloud computing technology can speed up the assessment of Northwest Pacific seagrass beds which nurture biodiversity, purify seawater and mitigate climate change but are threatened by human activities and natural disasters, says a study by the UN Environment Regional...
by Blue Forests Project | Sep 20, 2018 | Exposure News
Nations recognize ocean conservation as a measure to combat climate changeIn a surprising decision at last week’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), ocean conservation was supported as a measure to combat climate change.Endorsed by 41 of 71...
by Blue Forests Project | Sep 18, 2018 | Exposure News
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by Blue Forests Project | Sep 10, 2018 | Exposure News
Mounting scientific evidence is showing how Earth’s largest organisms can join forces with some of the smallest to combat climate change. This unlikely pairing is between some of the largest and tiniest life in the ocean, whales and phytoplankton. They work together...
by Blue Forests Project | Sep 3, 2018 | Exposure News
Traveling between remote islands by dugout canoe, and trudging through muddy mangrove forests in 40-degree Celsius heat coaching fisherfolk on monitoring techniques is all in a day’s work for Madagascan marine conservationist Lalao Aigrette.Aigrette is passionate...
by Blue Forests Project | Aug 26, 2018 | Exposure News
NAIROBI (Landscape News) — Salomão Bandeira is a marine botanist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, with expertise on mangrove and seagrass ecosystems.As a practitioner, Bandeira looks beyond ecology to broader issues such as community engagement in...
by Blue Forests Project | Aug 23, 2018 | Exposure News
A self-proclaimed “ambassador for mangroves,” scientist James Kairo has been swapping between the muddy gumboots of grassroots action and the shiny shoes of high-level policy discussions for around 27 years now.As a graduate student at the University of Nairobi, Kairo...
by Blue Forests Project | May 13, 2018 | Exposure News
Just 30 km south of the booming port town of Mombasa, residents of two tranquil Kenyan villages are making history.Here, amongst the mud-walled houses and coconut trees, the people of Gazi and Makongeni villages have become the world’s first communities to harness the...
by Blue Forests Project | Mar 2, 2018 | Exposure News
Compared to other types of carbon sink, seagrass in Kenya can absorb 35 times more carbon – a fact that is helping to kick-start poverty alleviation schemes in the regionIn order to control the climate and mitigate climate change, carbon sinks are a vital part and...
