Environmental Science · Global and Planetary Change
A new article proposes a framework for managing coral reefs and other tropical marine ecosystems as human pressures accelerate their decline. It calls for stronger protection, better fishing and pollution controls, climate action, community involvement and sufficient funding.
England’s new market for biodiversity offsets is directing planned work toward a small number of habitat types, with neutral grassland making up 44% of planned habitat. But only about 2% of the registered offset area had been sold after 16 months.
A study of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta coast found that mangroves can return naturally in exposed, muddy coastal areas. These regrowing patches withstood strong seasonal waves, yet some were treated as wasteland and removed for other coastal protection measures.
