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The climate impact of high seas shipping. [PDF]
National Science Review, 2023 Strict carbon emission regulations are set with respect to countries’ territorial seas or shipping activities in exclusive economic zones to meet their climate change commitment under the Paris Agreement.
Shouyang Wang +2 more
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Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 The open ocean beyond national jurisdiction covers nearly half of Earth’s surface and is largely unexplored. It is also an emerging frontier for new types of human activity.
Spencer M +5 more
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Why did only one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high seas? [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2022 Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface and house a dizzying array of organisms. Mammals, birds, and all manner of fish can be commonly sighted at sea, but insects, the world’s most common animals, seem to be completely absent.
Cheng L, Mishra H.
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The global network of ports supporting high seas fishing. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 High seas fishing is described by a modular network coupled with a heterogeneous hierarchy of harbors and countries. Fisheries in waters beyond national jurisdiction (“high seas”) are difficult to monitor and manage.
Rodríguez JP +4 more
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Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Discoveries of persistent coastal species in the open ocean shift our understanding of biogeographic barriers. Floating plastic debris from pollution now supports a novel sea surface community composed of coastal and oceanic species at sea that might ...
Haram LE +10 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceOnce the BBNJ Agreement enters into force, its environmental impact assessment (EIA) provisions will apply to high seas marine protected areas (MPAs). This paper examines current treaties and practices within four high seas MPAs and finds that the EIA ...
Yong Wang, X. Pan
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The economics of fishing the high seas. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 Much of the economic profitability of fishing the high seas is dependent on government subsidies. While the ecological impacts of fishing the waters beyond national jurisdiction (the “high seas”) have been widely studied, the economic rationale is more ...
Sala E +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceThis article examines the future governance of areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) in the wake of the new 2023 United Nations Agreement using the work on the Sargasso Sea as a prototype.
David Freestone +10 more
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Host-hijacking and planktonic piracy: how phages command the microbial high seas. [PDF]
Virol J, 2019 Microbial communities living in the oceans are major drivers of global biogeochemical cycles. With nutrients limited across vast swathes of the ocean, marine microbes eke out a living under constant assault from predatory viruses.
Warwick-Dugdale J +3 more
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The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 The distribution of global high seas longline fishing is predictable across space and time using environmental variables. International interest in the protection and sustainable use of high seas biodiversity has grown in recent years.
Crespo GO +7 more
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