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The buoy will measure carbon dioxide and other important seawater characteristics within the bay’s vibrant tropical coral reef ecosystem. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The UK government is commemorating International Biodiversity Day 2019 by releasing a new tranche of funding for conservation projects. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

This year’s celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity, on 22 May 2019, focused on biodiversity as the foundation for our food and health and a key catalyst to transforming food systems and improving human health. Click on the link to read the full statement. 

Microplastics are in our salt, our food, and in us. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch is over twice the size of Texas and eight million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean daily. Click on the link to read the full article. 

The United States of America, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, as Pacific nations, jointly reaffirm our interest in a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.

The creation of a new category of private land in Queensland by the state government has been condemned as bad legislation by the Member for Gregory and others. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Have you ever wondered what human-caused climate change sounds like? What melodic rhythms could result from every rising degree? Well, a scientist with a taste for music has got you covered. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Speaking to students in Fiji, Guterres described the structure on Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands as "a kind of coffin" and said it was a legacy of Cold War-era nuclear tests in the Pacific. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Māori culture is at risk due to predicted changes in the ranges of two culturally important native plants, kuta and kūmarahou. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

A group of residents of Nende Island in the Solomon Islands claim corrupt government practices allowed a logging company to get a license to log the island’s primary forests, as well as cropland. Click on the link below to read the full article.