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Quite a catch
In this story from the AP shared by Contributing Editor Michaela Haas, the senior vice president of oceans at the World Wildlife Fund called international waters “the world’s largest crime scene — they’re unmanaged, unenforced, and a regulatory legal structure is absolutely necessary.” Now, however, a truly multi-polar effort to change that may finally be coalescing.
Michaela says:
60 nations have ratified the High Seas Treaty, the first legal framework aimed at protecting biodiversity in international waters.
A developing story
A robust and watchful local media is a key part of any functional city, which makes the hollowing out of local news a threat to urban health. Executive Editor Will Doig shares a story from Next City about ways municipal governments are responding by getting directly involved in supporting local news, including publicly funded news voucher systems and policies that require city advertising budgets to be spent on community outlets.
Will says:
I was completely unaware of many of these ways cities are supporting their local news ecosystems — including in my own city of New York, where it turns out half of the government’s advertising dollars must be spent on ads in community news outlets.
What else we’re reading
He Got an Entire Country Running on Clean Energy. Can He Do It Again? — shared by Founding Editor Christine McLaren from The Washington Post
Experts Fired by Trump Revive Popular Climate Website — shared by Contributing Editor Michaela Haas from DW
In other news…
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