In this weekly roundup, we review the latest ocean news as United Nations talks over a high seas biodiversity near an end, Sylvia Earle urges U.N. delegates to take action on ocean preservation, and a robot is deployed to fight invasive lionfish.
Our weekly roundup reviews ocean news, as scientists predict hundreds of U.S. cities face flooding in the coming decades, new species of fungi are discovered in deep-sea reefs and environmentalists sue the Trump administration to protect whales and sea turtles.
In this weekly roundup, we review the latest ocean news as the U.N. declines to put the Great Barrier Reef on an “in-danger” list, climate scientists find that the ocean is absorbing less carbon as waters warm, and the U.K. moves to exit from a European fisheries treaty.
In this weekly roundup, we review the latest ocean news, as UNESCO warns that the most important coral reefs could disappear by 2100, scientists link failed killer whale pregnancies to a lack of fish, and Greenpeace finds the habitats of Scottish sharks, seals and seabirds inundated with plastic trash.
In this weekly roundup, we review the latest ocean news, as scientists determine a devastating coral bleaching event is over, the size of a oxygen-deprived “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to double this summer and “Ocean Elders” fight a coal mine that could harm the Great Barrier Reef.
In this weekly roundup, we review the latest ocean news, as scientists urge Congress to protect marine monuments from a Trump review, a study identifies Asia’s rivers as a major source of plastic pollution and a computer giant recycles ocean plastic into packaging.
We review the latest developments at the United Nation Ocean Conference, including a look at the final day’s proceedings, a pledge by the world’s largest seafood companies to help end illegal fishing and billionaire environmentalist Richard Branson’s delivery of a petition calling for governments to protect 30 percent of the ocean by 2030.
We review the latest developments at the United Nation Ocean Conference, including how the president of the U.N. General Assembly is taking on marine plastic pollution and the plastics industry, Iceland’s development of technology to reduce fish waste and a visit to the conference by children from remote marine reserves to ask world leaders to protect the ocean.
We review the latest developments at the United Nation Ocean Conference, including a prime minister’s call to give the ocean the legal rights of personhood, Hollywood star Adrian Grenier’s fight against ocean plastic pollution and a new effort to end overfishing of tuna.
We review the latest developments at the United Nation Ocean Conference, including the U.N. Secretary-General’s warning about saving the ocean, hurdles to financing the “blue economy” and scientists call for more research into the deep sea before fishing, oil and gas development and mining destroy an ecosystem that has barely been explored.
We review key developments in ocean issues, including the start of the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York City, the Trump administration’s objections to linking climate change to ocean degradation and the discovery of high rates of ocean acidification off the west coast of the United States.
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