Marine protected areas can be great for both people and the marine ecosystem. The most effective areas, Jessica Tengvall writes, has community support.
Removing seaweed from beaches might make them look more idyllic to tourists, but the reality is that mechanical beach cleaning is damaging a very important ecosystem that supports myraid wonderful life.
As another hurricane season gets underway in full force, researchers are working hard to predict the storm surges they produce - and save the lives of millions of people.
If you have come across the BIOMER oceanographic netCDFs, you will see that it comes in an MYO Arakawa-C ORCA025 native grid. This is how I converted BIOMER into WGS84.