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Professor Phil Weaver

A call for the creation of larger designated areas for marine protection is the basis of a comment article in the latest edition of the science journal, Nature.

The piece - Think big for marine conservation – is co-authored by Professor Phil Weaver (pictured), science coordinator of the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative, who is…

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Seastars and giant ribbon worms at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 32 metres depth (photo by R. B. Aronson)

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States has warned that the native fauna and unique ecology of the Southern Ocean, the vast body of water that surrounds the Antarctic continent, is under threat from human activity. Their study is published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.…