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Fact Sheet: How Nutrient Trading Can Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay

By Cy Jones on December 14, 2009

A new Fact Sheet on nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay region covers issues such as potential costs and revenues, and how farmers and other stakeholders can benefit.

World’s Waters Choking from Meat Consumption and Other Human Activities

July 21, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Greater meat consumption and demand for fossil fuels worldwide are expected to cause increasingly more harmful algal blooms and dead zones in coastal and freshwater areas.

New Hope for the Chesapeake Bay, Maybe

By Cy Jones on May 15, 2009

Presidential intervention has raised the stakes in a decades-long effort to clean up Chesapeake Bay.

First Worldwide Summary of Water-Quality Trading Programs Shows Growing Popularity

March 24, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The first list of the 57 water-quality trading programs worldwide is being released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI).

Coastal Populations Losing Livelihoods to Polluted Waters

April 2, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Coastal communities worldwide are witnessing their livelihoods choked by agricultural and industrial pollution, according to findings released today by the World Resources Institute.

Choking Coastal Waters

By Mindy Selman on January 4, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

My team at WRI, together with Dr. Bob Diaz at the Virginia Marine Institute, has identified and mapped 415 eutrophic and hypoxic coastal systems worldwide through an extensive literature review. Of these, 169 are documented hypoxic areas, 233 are areas of concern and 13 are systems in recovery.

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