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Global smart grid market to more than double by 2020
ClimateBiz | 18 Jun 2013
Research predicts market for smart meters and appliances will top $70 billion a year by the end of the decade.
The carrying capacities of capitals
ClimateBiz | 18 Jun 2013
Impacts on capitals and the role they play in human well-being determine an organization’s real performance. 
Why complexity matters when measuring sustainability
ClimateBiz | 18 Jun 2013
When working with metrics, there's no such thing as a simple answer. Entire systems need to be taken into account.
Success for discards trial
World Fishing | 18 Jun 2013
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has released the results of UK discard trials which show that discards have been virtually eliminated in some species.
Sturgeons threatened by illegal fishing and caviar trade
World Fishing | 18 Jun 2013
A new report by WWF and TRAFFIC has found that ongoing illegal fishing and trade in caviar in Romania and Bulgaria is threatening the survival of sturgeons in the Danube river basin.
Wide variations in salmon sustainability
World Fishing | 18 Jun 2013
A report by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has found that half of wild Pacific salmon stocks are good shape, while the other half needs help.
Faroe Islands call on the EU to drop threats
World Fishing | 18 Jun 2013
Jacob Vestergaard, Faroese Minister of Fisheries, has written to EU Commissioner Maria Damanaki, urging her to drop the threat of sanctions against the Faroes regarding the Atlanto-Scandian herring stock.
Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2013 Summary
The Ocean Foundation | 18 Jun 2013
Below are written summaries for each of the panels held during CHOW 2013 this year.
Forty percent of fishmeal and oil production is IFFO RS certified
fishupdate.com | 18 Jun 2013
Overall 103 plants in 10 countries are now IFFO RS certified, amounting to 40% of world combined fishmeal and fish oil production and 70% of that produced by IFFO members,? says Francisco Aldon Head of Standards at IFFO.
Study of oceans' past raises worries about their future
EurekAlert | 17 Jun 2013
(McGill University) A McGill-led international research team has completed the first global study of changes that occurred in the nitrogen cycle, at the end of the last ice age. Their study confirm that oceans are good at balancing the nitrogen cycle on a global scale. But the data also shows that it is a slow process that may take many centuries, raising worries about the effects of current changes in the ocean.