University of Washington Bothell

Mobile Protected Areas Are Needed To Protect Biodiversity In The High Seas

World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argue this week, to introduce new techniques that allow protected zones to shift as species move under climate change. In an article in the 17-January-2020 issue of Science, researchers make the case for the United…