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About the Back to Blue Initiative
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A global ocean free from the harmful impacts of pollution: Roadmap for action
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Future of the ocean part I: The tech to tackle plastics
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Charles Goddard, editorial director at The Economist Group, speaks to Elsie Sunderland at Harvard University and Alex Rogers at REV Ocean about the scope and scale of the problem of chemical pollution in the ocean.

Marine Chemical Pollution

Climate efforts threatened by developments at sea

Reading time: 4mins

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Q&A with Professor Steve Widdicombe, director of science and deputy chief executive at Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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Charting the interplay of ocean warming and the Earth’s energy imbalance

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Glaciers and fjords: new research

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Towards a pollution free ocean

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Investing in a Pollution Free Ocean

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Q&A: Professor Alex Rogers, National Oceanography Centre

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Q&A with Professor Mitsutaku Makino, from the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute at the University of Tokyo

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Closing the marine pollution data gap: The Global Estuaries Monitoring Programme

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