Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources. Goal 14 is about conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources. Healthy oceans and seas are essential to human existence and life on Earth. (UN. 2025. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/)
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. (Wikipedia. 2025. Rift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rift)
The conservation of ecosystems and natural habitats and the maintenance and recovery of viable populations of species in their natural surroundings and, in the case of domesticated or cultivated species, in the surroundings where they have developed their distinctive properties. (FAO. 2025. Glossary for aquatic genetic resources for food and agriculture. CGRFA-20/25/6.2/Inf.1. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd4254en)
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_lake)
The cultural practice, explanation, belief, and meaningfulness adopted by the broader public, apart from its distinguished and contemporary cultural products and practices. (http://www.tubaterim.gov.tr/)
Dark bottom decay sediment of lakes rich in organic substances and ferric sulphide, formed by a decay of plant and animal remains in saprobic conditions. (FAO. 1978. Glossary of inland fishery terms, EIFAC Occasional Paper No. 12 https://www.fao.org/4/ae987b/AE987B01.htm)
A value or measurement that varies with circumstances, and is used as a reference to quantify a situation or a process. (FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture, 2001)
Negative geotropism refers to the tendency (e.g., of some stems) to grow away from the center of gravity. (Sutton, R. F & Tinus, Richard W. (Richard Willard) & Society of American Foresters. (1983). Root and root system terminology / by R.F. Sutton, R.W. Tinus. Washington, D.C. : Society of American Foresters)
Leads are linear-like structures of open water within the sea ice cover that develop as the result of fracturing due to divergence or shear. Through leads, air and water come into contact and directly exchange latent and sensible heat through convective processes driven by the large temperature and moisture differences between them. (Marcq, S. and Weiss, J.: Influence of sea ice lead-width distribution on turbulent heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere, The Cryosphere, 6, 143–156, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-143-2012, 2012.)
Uptake of chemical into or onto an organism from the surrounding environmental media (typically water) to levels exceeding its ambient concentration; bioconcentration by definition excludes uptake from food. (Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 615, FAO, 2017)
