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Jeremy Pittman

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Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo

This wood tower on Bikeman islet, in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati, used to be on the sand. Now it’s in the water. Further out, locals fish. David Gray/Reuters

July 12, 2017

Rising sea temperatures will hit fisheries and communities in poor countries the hardest

Robert Blasiak, Stockholm University and Jeremy Pittman, University of Waterloo

A new study finds that even in best-case scenarios, the fishing communities most hurt by climate change are on small island nations such as Kiribati, the Solomon Islands and the Maldives.

Recent decades have seen a rapid growth in new technologies that are rendering the high seas more accessible. Mike Blake/Reuters

November 22, 2016

Efforts to conserve and manage the high seas show serious disparities among ‘equal’ countries

Robert Blasiak, University of Tokyo and Jeremy Pittman, University of Waterloo

Negotiations regarding a legal framework for the oceans – an area covering roughly half the Earth’s surface – are being dominated by OECD members.

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