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Almost 790 meters below the surface, the Ocean Exploration Trust expedition recorded the unusual discovery on YouTube  and other social networks on  video.

The Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, Trevor Evans MP, was today in Samoa to meet with representatives from 21 Pacific Island Nations, New Zealand, the United States, France and the United Kingdom to discuss the key environmental issues facing the region.

The largest addition to the New South Wales national parks network in almost a decade has been welcomed by traditional owners of the land, who say it is a monumental cultural milestone.

The government is under pressure to find a new, environmentally safe way to deal with the truckloads of waste created around the island every day – and there is additional pressure due to the absence of sufficient investment into the area of waste management.

The Protected Area Network [PAN] Fund awarded twelve PAN state employees in a marine ecological monitoring training course through the Palau Community College [PCC] Continuing Education [CE] Program.

The former governor of Papua New Guinea's Madang province, Sir Arnold Amet, has renewed his call for the government to cancel sea bed mining licenses.This comes as Canadian miner Nautilus, in which the PNG government has a 15 percent stake, is fighting through the courts for its economic survival

The third session of negotiations on the preservation of marine biodiversity in the high seas, held under a UN Intergovernmental Conference, ended in New York on 30 August. However, negotiations only resulted in a framework for a future treaty.

Our seas are in deep, deep trouble. They house an extraordinarily diverse eco-system of marine life, and are crucial to the well being of land-based ecosystems. And as of this moment, they may as well be the Wild West for corporations and governments to pillage as they please.

How do you solve a problem like an invasion of feral cats? No, it’s not a scenario from a sci-fi dystopia but a real conundrum for scientists, authorities, and conservationists in Australia.

There are even stranger ideas for how to take down a tropical cyclone than bombing it with a nuclear warhead, as President Trump suggested.