Seagrass provides a key marine habitat, writes Richard Unsworth - it stablises the sea floor, sustains rich ecosystems, soaks up excess nutrients, sequesters carbon dioxide, feeds dugongs, and nurtures young cod. Hadn't we better stop wiping out some 1,500 sq.km of seagrass meadows every year?
… For the love of cod, let's save our disappearing seagrass … 2014 Comment Oceans Fish Ecology Food cod-seagrass-john-carroll-cut.jpg Seagrass. … dioxide, feeds dugongs, and nurtures young cod. Hadn't we better stop wiping out some …
Claims such as 'responsibly farmed' are being used to boost supermarket sales but do not always mean an environmentally-friendly fish product
… sharks, rays and turtles. In another example, Cod at Marks and Spencer was labelled as … but comes from Canada where it is known that cod stock is in decline. The company declined …
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...
… what is known as ‘lean’ fish (haddock and cod) and ‘industrial’ fish (including herring, …
The UK Government has recently expanded its network of marine protected areas. But as Horatio Morpurgo discovers, the focus on protecting only specific 'features' from intensive fishing is leaving entire ecosystems at risk.
… trawling which has prevented the recovery of cod on the Grand Banks continues in the Irish …
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic.