Editors’ Choice – Page 2 – Sustainable Blue Economy Conference 2018

Rahti Begum a fisherwoman sells fish on a roadside in Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir state in India. She says she will be the last woman in her clan to sell fish. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS

October 25, 2018

Kashmir’s Fisherwomen Live Between Hope and Despair

by Umar Manzoor Shah

With the high demand for fish by the tourism sector, Barbados imports the majority of the fish consumed here. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

October 24, 2018

Barbados Looks Beyond its Traditional Sugar and Banana Industries into the Deep Blue

by Desmond Brown

Dr Sylvia Earle, an eminent marine biologist and explorer has strong views on how nations needs to work to save what the United Nations calls the lungs of our planet.

October 4, 2018

Saving the Lungs of Our Planet

by Gordon Radley

Every winter dozens of bull sharks come to Mexico’s Mayan Riviera to breed. A single bull shark can give birth to up to 15 young. They are the only species of shark that can live in both fresh and salt water.

October 4, 2018

Saving the Kindergarten of Sharks

by Gordon Radley