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Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group is one of the world"s most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted...Marine scientists have found the tiny landmass in the Pacific to is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic -  the highest density of anthropogen

Human-created pollution is not a minor threat to our oceans, but a massive and worsening issue...The Ocean Cleanup has announced an update to its pollution-collecting technology.

Few will have heard of PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls. The chemicals were banned in the late 70s amid fears about their toxicity. Recent estimates suggest that Europe produced anything between 299,000 and 585,000 tonnes of PCBs.

Nature preserves are a noble idea...But new research suggests that there’s one thing these areas don’t give animals: peace and quiet.

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Surprisingly little attention has been paid to variation among countries in contributions to conservation.

Has having to figure out if you want to do management (EBM), integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), area based management (ABM), whole domain management (WDM), or marine spatial planning (MSP) got you down" You are in luck.

Locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) are often recommended as a strategy to achieve conservation and fisheries management, though few studies have evaluated their performance against these objectives.

According to the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, the Black-faced Pitta was once reasonably common, at least on Bougainville. Forty specimens were collected there before 1938.

Two research positions have been advertised to join the Water Research Laboratory (WRL), UNSW Sydney.  The advertised positions will further expand WRL's award winning research expertise in environmental science and engineering.One position is focused on climate change in estuaries (2 years

Vanuatu is a stronghold of biodiversity in the Pacific islands region and there are many sites throughout the country that have high conservation value owing to their role as key habitats for vulnerable and endemic species...In this backdrop, a national workshop for protected area stakeholders wa