Reading the seas: Our top ocean books of 2024
Dialogue Earth’s team have been reading up on ancient monsters, rising waters, murky depths and more – here are a few of their choice picks
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Explainer: Why ocean temperatures are a growing concern
Cleaner global shipping, El Niño and a subsea volcano have all been implicated, as scientists rush to understand record-breaking ocean heat
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As Brazil’s Amazon grows drier, Indigenous people feel the squeeze
The Waurá people are fighting to restore degraded springs, with historic droughts increasing the vulnerability of waters and ways of life in the Xingu Basin
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We need radical action on climate finance at COP29
The New Collective Quantified Goal needs a human rights-based approach to loss and damage – and we need to talk about the military, writes Maria Syed
COP29: Latin America and Caribbean face huge hurdles to sustainable finance
The region receives 19 times more in revenue from activities linked to fossil fuel exports than it does in climate and biodiversity funding, write sustainable finance researchers
Riding the 2024 COPs wave: Ocean issues connect everything
Ocean issues cut across all three major UN conferences taking place at the end of 2024, says Felipe Cárcamo Moreno
Analysis: Pakistan’s COP29 priorities
The key issue at the UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan will be financing adaptation and mitigation, argues Shafqat Kakakhel
