2025
Five lessons for closing the last mile: How to make climate decision support actionable
Baylis et al. 2025, Earth's Future
Little-to-no industrial fishing occurs in fully and highly protected marine areas
Raynor et al. 2025, Science
Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Raynor, Christopher Costello
Abstract for Little-to-no industrial fishing occurs in fully and highly protected marine areas
There is a widespread perception that illegal fishing is common in marine protected areas (MPAs) due to strong incentives for poaching and the high cost of monitoring and enforcement. Using artificial intelligence and satellite-based Earth observations, we provide estimates of industrial fishing activity in fully and highly protected MPAs worldwide, in which such fishing is banned. We find little to no activity in most cases. On average, these MPAs had just one fishing vessel present per 20,000 square kilometers during the satellite overpass, a density nine times lower than that of the unprotected waters of exclusive economic zones.
Impact forecasting for humanitarianism: Opportunities and challenges
Baylis and Lentz 2025, PNAS
The biogeochemistry of natural climate solutions based on fish, fisheries, and marine mammals: A review of current evidence, research needs, and critical assessment of readiness
Collins et al. 2025, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation
Hultgren et al. 2025, Nature
Assessing future environmental benefits of agricultural abandonment and recultivation
Jain et al. 2025, Environmental Research Letters
Forest product market conditions mediate the scale and benefits of sustainable forest management in the Tahoe-Central Sierra Region
Patrick et al. 2025, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation
Abajian et al. 2025, Nature Communications
Investigating the performance of high-resolution subseasonal precipitation forecasts in support of food insecurity early warning
Turner et al. 2025, Environmental Research: Climate
Extreme day-ahead renewables scenario selection in power grid operations
Terrén-Serrano and Ludkovski 2025, Applied Energy
Bilateral marine reserve agreements
Lawson and Costello 2025, Theoretical Ecology
New estimates of the costs of managing forests to increase carbon storage
Plantinga et al. 2025, Climate Change Economics
Retention bans are beneficial but insufficient to stop shark overfishing
Feitosa et al. 2025, Fish and Fisheries
Marine protected areas for dive tourism
Cabral et al. 2025, Scientific Reports
Input subsidies and the depletion of natural capital: Chinese distant water fishing
Englander et al. 2025, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Charting a science course for the sustainable transformation of aquatic food systems
Agostini et al. 2025, ICES Journal of Marine Science
2024
Leveraging remote sensing for transparency and accountability in Amazonian commodity supply chains
Ribeiro et al. 2024, One Earth
Sustainable-use marine protected areas to improve human nutrition
Viana et al. 2024, Nature Communications
stagg:: A data pre-processing R package for climate impacts analysis
Liddell et al. 2024, Environmental Modelling and Software
Global expansion of marine protected areas and the redistribution of fishing effort
McDonald et al. 2024, PNAS
