by Kate Longley-Wood | Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Climate change is a portfolio problem. There’s no one cause, nor is there a silver bullet to fix the problem. Rather, the solution will lie in a portfolio of measures, and many of the solutions will stem from nature. To explain how natural solutions to carbon storage...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Oct 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Healthy mangroves are a precious, almost priceless resource, and yet over the past 50 years the world has witnessed staggering levels of mangrove loss and degradation. Mangroves can, quite literally save lives during storms, but losing mangroves also means losing...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Jul 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
The MOW team in Micronesia has published a new paper, Modelling and mapping regional-scale patterns of fishing impact and fish stocks to support coral-reef management in Micronesia in the journal Diversity and Distributions. Led by Alastair Harborne of Florida...
by Kate Longley-Wood | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
The most detailed study to date of the soil carbon stored in mangrove forests has revealed that these soils hold more than 6.4 billion tons of carbon globally, according to a new paper in Environmental Research Letters. That is about 4.5 times the amount of carbon...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Nature Conservancy, Microsoft, and Esri have formed a collaboration around geospatial technology and natural solutions for conservation and climate adaptation planning. One of the key goals of this larger collaboration effort is to demonstrate how TNC is making...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Mapping Ocean Wealth (MOW) Australia team (OzMOW) are currently working hard to understand the distribution and value of carbon stored in ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds and saltmarshes, otherwise known as blue carbon. Methods for quantifying carbon in...