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Young people demonstrate ahead of a climate summit in New York in September 2023. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

March 12, 2024

Climate change matters to more and more people – and could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election

Matt Burgess, University of Colorado Boulder

Research shows that climate change had a significant effect on voting choices in the 2016 and 2020 elections – and could also influence the 2024 presidential race.

State conservation officials from Florida and Georgia work in 2014 to remove a heavy length of fishing rope from a right whale’s mouth. FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission/Flickr

January 11, 2017

New US seafood rule shows global trade and conservation can work together

Matt Burgess, University of California, Santa Barbara and Rob Williams, University of St Andrews

A new US seafood import rule requires supplier countries to control accidental bycatch of whales, seals and other marine mammals – showing that global trade and conservation can reinforce each other.

Balanced harvesting adds new fish to the menu. Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center

July 13, 2015

Could ‘balanced harvesting’ really feed the world and save the oceans?

Matt Burgess, University of California, Santa Barbara

Spreading fishing pressure evenly across whole marine ecosystems sounds like a great idea. But there’s a hitch – we can’t technologically do it, and even if we could, it would be expensive.

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