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“Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is a collection of dishonest fishing practices, both on the high seas and in areas within national jurisdiction,” said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jason Holstead, the 14th District Living Marine Resource Officer.

A new report found that the world’s top 10 fishing nations are spending billions of dollars on harmful fishing subsidies to not only exploit their own domestic waters, but to fish in the high seas and the waters of other nations.

Marine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor have identified likely new marine species and deep sea organisms on nine seamounts that were explored for the first time in the remote Phoenix Islands Archipelago.

A weedkiller banned overseas can be used in the World Heritage Wet Tropics Area in Far North Queensland. Roundup contains glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified as a probable carcinogen.

A new “Roadmap to End Pandemics” is being shared with ASEAN members of Parliament and calls “Nature Protection the only long-lasting vaccine,” saying the way to immunize Earth is through “One Health"...One Health combines measures that simultaneously address human health, animal health (including

Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss.

The global economy faces annual losses of $2.7 trillion by 2030 if ecological tipping points are reached and countries fail to invest more in protecting and restoring nature, the World Bank said on Thursday, calling for a greener COVID-19 recovery.

Coastal wetlands—such as salt marshes—provide even more flood protection than previously thought, reducing the risk to lives and homes in estuaries, a new study has revealed.

The Environment Minister says banning bottom trawling in areas that haven't been trawled before may be a good idea. Conservation group, WWF, says virgin sea bed covering an area three times the size of Auckland has been trawled by fishermen over the past decade.

Since 2018, the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) has been partnering with the Koror State Government (KSG) and Palau Visitors Authority (PVA) on a coral rehabilitation project. On June 15 and 16, PICRC Aquarist, McGee Mereb and Eveline van der Steeg, a Ph.D.