Coral reefs provide food and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people as well as
harbour some of the highest regions of biodiversity in the ocean. However, overexploitation …

Non-technical summary Rivers are crucial to the water cycle, linking the landscape to the
sea. Human activities, including effluent discharge, water use and fisheries, have …

The blue bond market has emerged as one of the latest additions in the sustainable debt
market. Its goal is to channel funding toward sustainable blue economy projects related to …

Ocean pollution from land-based sources, such as terrestrial runoff and wastewater
discharge, has significant environmental, social and economic repercussions. Despite the …

Streamflow controls many freshwater and marine processes, including salinity profiles,
sediment composition, fluxes of nutrients, and the timing of animal migrations. Watersheds …

Rainfall mobilizes and transports anthropogenic sources of sediments and nutrients from
terrestrial to coastal marine ecosystems, and episodic but extreme rainfall may drive high …

There is a growing recognition that conservation strategies should be designed accounting
for cross-realm connections, such as freshwater connections to land and sea, to ensure …

Coastal marine ecosystems can be managed by actions undertaken both on the land and in
the ocean. Quantifying and comparing the costs and benefits of actions in both realms is …

A survey of the quality of water flowing from micro-system types to the ocean, along the
subtropical east coast of South Africa, showed a wide variation in the concentrations of total …

Seasonal variations of environmental parameters usually lead to considerable changes in
microbial communities. Nevertheless, the specific response patterns of these communities in …