Is the Global Ocean Healthy? We Can Answer That Now
As the Ocean Health Index makes its public debut, three of its parents describe the moment of 'Eureka!' in summing up the well-being of the global ocean and its human dependents.
Ocean Health Index
How Marine Spatial Planning Calms Choppy Waters
Getting everyone with a vested interest onboard early, rather than making others adjust to a new obstacle at sea, provides benefits for all involved.
Ocean Health Index: The Audacity of Necessity
The researchers behind the budding Ocean Health Index recognize the hubris of trying to summarize everything from water quality to fishing status to recreation in a single number, but they maintain it’s a necessarily audacious move.
Ocean Health Index Accounts for Human Benefits
Oceans are peopled, too! Assessing all of the ways the world’s oceans directly benefit humans is not easy, but it must be done in any honest accounting for the Ocean Health Index.
Three Reasons for Creating a Single Ocean Health Index
As the gross domestic product shows us, a single number that represents the health of a complex and dynamic system can have amazing and perhaps unexpected power.
Setting Targets in the Ocean Health Index
Measuring success requires knowing where you want to be, and so a raft of targets is being developed for the nascent Ocean Health Index.
Ocean Index Navigates Between the Politic and the Pristine
Scientists are from Mars, policymakers are from Venus, and bridging that gap is one of the goals of those designing the Ocean Health Index.
The Making of the Ocean Health Index
In the first of a series of stories tracking their progress in real time, three scientists explain the genesis of a global effort to present the health of the world's oceans with a single number.