Episode 124: Ocean Panel's role in charting policy for sustainable oceans...and more

In lieu of an interview guest, in this episode Craig reads four articles that come with marine flavours. The first article, sourced from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, relates the PhD project currently examining the Ocean Panel's role in charting world policy for achieving sustainable oceans. The second article, from the website of CSIRO, summarises the results of applying the innovative genetic approach of close-kin mark recapture to the eastern Australian grey nurse shark population.  The next article, from the website of the Australian Antarctic Program, is about the abrupt changes being observed in Antarctica, including a rapid decline in sea-ice coverage, weakening of ice sheet and ice shelf stability, and population declines in some marine and terrestrial species, due to habitat loss. And the last article, taken from the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, relates how heat tolerant corals of different species in Palau are being selectively bred to help save impacted coral reefs worldwide.