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Fiji’s ocean is healthy
July 28, 2023

The French Senior Researcher in Oceanography, Dr Cecile Dupouy says Fiji’s ocean is healthy despite a few blooms received from the Rewa River.

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Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan
Japan will soon release Fukushima radioactive water into the ocean. How worried should we be?
July 6, 2023

Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean following approval from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for a controversial plan that comes 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

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Ngeanges Island, Palau. Credit - https://www.islandconservation.org
In Palau, working for ‘the next generation, and the next, and the next’
April 6, 2023

The tiny tropical archipelago of Palau feels enormous responsibility for the health of the ocean. It now compels all who visit it to share this as well.

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Connecting Marine Protected Areas Can Improve Ocean Health
July 8, 2022

Research shows that large, fully protected marine areas help conserve valuable biodiversity and can reverse many of the detrimental impacts caused by humans.

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Terena Koteka-Wiki and Konini Rongo arriving in Mitiaro on the paiere, traditional fishing boats. Credit - Te Ipukarea Society
Voyage to Pa ‘Enua Ngā Pū Toru with a message of Ocean Health
October 1, 2021

The key purpose of the Tāua e Moana voyage is to deliver ocean health awareness raising messages by the three collaborating organisations. At every island, each organisation has given presentations to the schools.

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Atolls, Marshall Islands. Credit - V. Jungblut
New ideas, new resources: ADB’s blue bond a big step toward healthy oceans
September 16, 2021

This month, ADB issued its first blue bond, driving forward its ambitious plan to build sustainable blue economies and to use the financial markets to scale up ocean solutions...In 2019, ADB launched its Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies for the Asia and Pacific region

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wastewater pollution toolkit. Credit - Reef Resilience Network (https://reefresilience.org/)
Wastewater Pollution Toolkit announced by Reef Resilience Network
July 22, 2021

The new Wastewater Pollution Toolkit provides the latest science and strategies to help marine managers address wastewater threats wherever they work.

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Industrial fishing trawlers stocking up on unsustainable quantities of fish. Credit: Shutterstock
Putting an end to billions in fishing subsidies could improve fish stocks and ocean health
July 14, 2021

Global fish catches are fluctuating near the highest levels ever reported, while the fraction of fish stocks that are sustainable has never been lower. Nevertheless, governments spent US$22 billion of public money on harmful fisheries subsidies in 2018.

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Many sooty shearwaters breed in New Zealand then migrate to the northeast Pacific. Shutterstock
Seabirds are today’s canaries in the coal mine – and they’re sending us an urgent message
May 28, 2021

Just as caged canaries once warned coal miners of the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, free-flying seabirds are now warning humanity about the deteriorating health of our oceans. Seabirds journey vast distances across Earth’s seascapes to find food and to breed.

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Countries can transform the climate crisis with ocean-based action (commentary)
April 23, 2021

Protecting coastal “blue carbon” ecosystems like mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes is 10 times more effective at sequestering carbon per area than terrestrial forests, and is just one ocean-based solution that can help mitigate climate change.

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