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					<title>From Chile to Greece, ‘ghost gear’ from fish farms haunts the seas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-chile-to-greece-ghost-gear-from-fish-farms-haunts-the-seas/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Sep 2025 14:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Guia Baggi]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Canada, Chile, Europe, Global, Greece, North America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Pollution, Saltwater Fish, Waste, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Each year since 2021, Pia Reveco and her husband have set sail from Puerto Montt to spend the Chilean summers navigating Patagonia aboard their sailboat. Last year, they traveled along the fjords and mountains of the Golfo de Penas; three years ago, they reached Laguna San Rafael National Park, where a glacier resembling an ice [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Each year since 2021, Pia Reveco and her husband have set sail from Puerto Montt to spend the Chilean summers navigating Patagonia aboard their sailboat. Last year, they traveled along the fjords and mountains of the Golfo de Penas; three years ago, they reached Laguna San Rafael National Park, where a glacier resembling an ice tongue meets the sea. This summer, they opted instead for a shorter trip to the Guaitecas archipelago, a group of sparse islands in the Aysén region known for its rich biodiversity. During these journeys, they report frequently coming across fish farms, mostly salmoneras, Spanish for salmon farms. On their most recent expedition, which ran from December to March, Reveco posted on X about at least 23 sites that appeared to her abandoned or in bad condition, with corroded, broken or sinking infrastructure and teeming with birds, she told Mongabay. A 2021 study published in the science journal Marine Pollution Bulletin identified mussel and salmon aquaculture as primary sources of floating marine debris in northern Chilean Patagonia, especially buoys and other plastic floating devices. Daniel Caniullán, a fishing vessel owner, shellfish gatherer and Indigenous community leader involved in campaigns against the salmon industry, has often documented buoys, sections of rusting platforms and plastic pipes washing ashore on the pristine beaches of the Guaitecas, where he lives. “We, the Indigenous seafaring fishers of this territory, have seen this type of salmon farming pollution in the area for more than 40 years,” Caniullán texted Mongabay. In such remote&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-chile-to-greece-ghost-gear-from-fish-farms-haunts-the-seas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Protecting coastal waters may be the best investment you&#8217;ve never heard of, says Kristin Rechberger</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/protecting-coastal-waters-may-be-the-best-investment-youve-never-heard-of-says-kristin-rechberger/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2025 22:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Britain, Global, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, blue economy, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Economics, Environment, Fishing, Interviews, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Protected Areas, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier—out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet efforts to reverse decades of neglect are gathering speed. Last week saw the launch of Revive Our Ocean, a new initiative aimed at helping coastal communities create marine protected areas (MPAs) to restore both marine [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier—out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet efforts to reverse decades of neglect are gathering speed. Last week saw the launch of Revive Our Ocean, a new initiative aimed at helping coastal communities create marine protected areas (MPAs) to restore both marine life and local economies. The effort, led by Dynamic Planet with support from National Geographic’s Pristine Seas initiative, comes at a pivotal time. In 2023, countries agreed to a historic treaty to safeguard ocean biodiversity. But of the 100-plus nations that signed, only 21 have ratified the deal, with crucial backers such as the United States notably absent. With a 2030 deadline looming to protect 30% of the oceans, Revive Our Ocean’s founders argue that waiting for governments alone will not be enough. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen that marine protection works,&#8221; says Kristin Rechberger, founder of Dynamic Planet and the force behind the new initiative. &#8220;But the creation of MPAs has been far too slow. To meet 30&#215;30, the world would need to establish over 190,000 new protected areas. That’s why we’re focusing on communities—those who know their waters best.&#8221; Kelp bed in the waters of Arran, Scotland. Credit: Henley Spiers Rechberger&#8217;s optimism is grounded in experience. Over the past decade, Dynamic Planet and Pristine Seas have supported the creation of 29 of the world’s largest marine reserves, covering nearly seven million square kilometers, mostly in remote national waters. Now, attention is shifting closer to shore, where&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/protecting-coastal-waters-may-be-the-best-investment-youve-never-heard-of-says-kristin-rechberger/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Greek conservationists collaborate to protect endemic species in face of climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/greek-conservationists-collaborate-to-protect-endemic-species-in-face-of-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Mar 2022 20:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Evan Bourtis]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Greece]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Critically Endangered Species, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Freshwater, Green, Mitigation, Mountains, Parks, Plants, Research, Restoration, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[High above sea level on the central Greek mountain of Oiti, the mythological place of Hercules’ funeral, snow melts in the springtime. As the soil becomes wet, grasses start growing and ponds that last three months or longer per year begin to form. When the weather warms, the ponds, once up to half a meter [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[High above sea level on the central Greek mountain of Oiti, the mythological place of Hercules’ funeral, snow melts in the springtime. As the soil becomes wet, grasses start growing and ponds that last three months or longer per year begin to form. When the weather warms, the ponds, once up to half a meter (1.5 feet) deep, evaporate, and a flower species with four dot-sized white petals sprouts, typically in May. These dried ponds on Mount Oiti are the only place in the world where it’s possible to find the tiny flower Veronica oetaea. Since 2013, scientists at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens have annually monitored the dwarf flower’s population across the three pond sites where it’s found. Scientists have recorded tens of thousands of flowers in all the sites every June — until 2021, when they recorded the flower in only one dried pond. Central Greece has experienced unusually early warm spring weather for the past four years, especially in 2021. The plant likely bloomed earlier than normal, because ponds dried quicker, and in smaller populations, said Avra Stamellou, a biologist at Mount Oiti National Park who arranges researchers’ visits to the mountain. Landscape of Mount Oiti. Image courtesy of the Mount Oiti National Park Management Body. The survey results show how much changes in the weather’s timing can disturb a flower’s life cycle. In Europe, climate change has driven a trend of early spring weather for two decades, as reported in a 2020 Global Change&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/greek-conservationists-collaborate-to-protect-endemic-species-in-face-of-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-253513</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/saving-sea-turtles-in-the-anthropause-successes-and-challenges-on-the-beach/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Sep 2021 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Fitt]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evolving Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Europe, Greece, Lebanon, Malaysia, and Middle East]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Anthropocene, Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Critically Endangered Species, data, Endangered Species, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Poaching, Pollution, Reptiles, Sea Turtles, Solutions, Tourism, Turtles, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[BEIRUT, Lebanon — Beaches across the planet emptied as COVID-19 spread in 2020, with the first full lockdowns in many places coinciding with sea turtle nesting season. With less noise, less tourist boat traffic, less fishing, less beach furniture clutter and less light pollution, the hazards and challenges for sea turtles nesting appeared to decline. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BEIRUT, Lebanon — Beaches across the planet emptied as COVID-19 spread in 2020, with the first full lockdowns in many places coinciding with sea turtle nesting season. With less noise, less tourist boat traffic, less fishing, less beach furniture clutter and less light pollution, the hazards and challenges for sea turtles nesting appeared to decline. Nesting figures increased in 2020, according to many turtle conservation organizations across the globe. Initially, conservationists ascribed this uptick to populations “thriving” because humans were in lockdown. But researchers and conservationists say the truth is more nuanced. There were “huge challenges” across the conservation world, according to an IUCN report about the pandemic’s effect on protected areas in 90 countries. The unprecedented reduction in human activity during 2020 could shed light on otherwise impossible-to-measure human-wildlife interactions, according to scientists calling this window for crucial data collection the “Anthropause.” But for some conservationists, dealing with new pandemic challenges in human-wildlife interactions is proving a struggle, including those working with sea turtles. A female turtle crawls back to water, TRACC, Pom Pom Island, East Malaysia. Image courtesy of Jeethvendra Krishnamoorthi. Nesting in peace Turtles frequenting the Greek island of Zakynthos in 2020 found the relative peace and quiet appealing, according to a paper by scientists at Queen Mary University, U.K., and Deakin University, Australia. Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) here usually share their nesting habitat with around 850,000 human visitors each summer. Before the pandemic, researchers thought that turtles shifting to deeper water from nearshore shallows in late&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/saving-sea-turtles-in-the-anthropause-successes-and-challenges-on-the-beach/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-246726</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Burning coal responsible for over 20,000 deaths a year in Europe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2013 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Vidal]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, England, Europe, Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal, Diseases, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Health, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air pollution from Europe&#8217;s 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity. The research, from Stuttgart University&#8217;s Institute for energy economics and commissioned [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air pollution from Europe&#8217;s 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity. The research, from Stuttgart University&#8217;s Institute for energy economics and commissioned by Greenpeace International, suggests that a further 2,700 people can be expected to die prematurely each year if a new generation of 50 planned coal plants are built in Europe. &#8220;The coal-fired power plants in Europe cause a considerable amount of health impacts,&#8221; the researchers concluded. Analysis of the emissions shows that air pollution from coal plants is now linked to more deaths than road traffic accidents in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. In Germany and the UK, coal-fired power stations are associated with nearly as many deaths as road accidents. Polish coal power plants were estimated to cause more than 5,000 premature deaths in 2010. The cumulative impact of pollution on health is &#8220;shocking&#8221;, says an accompanying Greenpeace report. A total of 240,000 years of life were said to be lost in Europe in 2010 with 480,000 work days a year and 22,600 &#8220;life years&#8221; lost in Britain, the fifth most coal-polluted country. Drax, Britain&#8217;s largest coal-powered station, was said to be responsible for 4,450 life years lost, and Longannet in Scotland 4,210. According to the study, Polish coal power plants have the worst health impact in the European Union. The Polish&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28840</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rio+20 and economic perils in Europe: opportunity for linkage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/rio20-and-economic-perils-in-europe-opportunity-for-linkage/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jun 2012 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Richard Blaustein]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Greece, Spain, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental Services, Governance, Green, History, Mitigation, Politics, Poverty, Reforestation, Rio Summit, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[This month, momentous events will occur on the global scene that will set the tone for whether 2012 will be a hopeful year or one in which dislocations and disconnects are further exacerbated by political failings. The EU will decide on its fiscal and monetary union that hinges on Greece’s recent June election, which backed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This month, momentous events will occur on the global scene that will set the tone for whether 2012 will be a hopeful year or one in which dislocations and disconnects are further exacerbated by political failings. The EU will decide on its fiscal and monetary union that hinges on Greece’s recent June election, which backed the political party that wants to stay in the Euro zone, but insists on adjustments to the earlier-negotiated economic rescue package. In fact, this week the G-20 economic powers meet in Mexico to discuss extra measures to avoid financial contagion. With a strange sense of coincidence, these critical European and, indeed, global economic developments coincide with this week&#8217;s United Nations Earth Summit 2012, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro as it did twenty years ago when it launched the auspices for climate change actions and negotiations. The Earth Summit 2012, also referred to as Rio + 20, is not generating much hope this time around with a backdrop of increasingly dire warnings as to the ecological stability of the planet. For the first time in human history, a few locales in 2012 measured 400 parts per million (PPM) greenhouse gas-equivalence in the atmosphere, illustrating that the international community has not succeeded in abating the greenhouse gas emissions trajectory, even while serious ecological changes, such as glacial melting and oceans rising, have accelerated. In fact, the decisions surrounding the European economic union, the state of Greece, and the direction for Earth’s natural system as enunciated&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/rio20-and-economic-perils-in-europe-opportunity-for-linkage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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