Our oceans are in dire need of protection and proper management – solutions are around, but must be implemented correctly. Healthy oceans are an essential resource and support system for life on Earth, including humans.
Sir David Attenborough has urged governments to ban deep sea mining, following a study warning of “potentially disastrous” risks to the ocean’s life-support systems if it goes ahead.
The UN has postponed deadlocked talks on a global treaty to protect marine biodiversity in the high seas because of the coronavirus, giving countries extra time to seek compromise. Governments had been due to agree a global treaty in April to safeguard life in seas beyond the national jurisd
The roots of NOAA and the formal observation and study of the weather, climate, and oceans in the United States goes back to the early 1800's. However it wasn't until 1970 that NOAA was formally developed and recognized.
Humanity is waking up to the crisis happening in our oceans. Warming and rising seas, acidification, plummeting fish stocks, and pollution are finding more space in newspapers and on political agendas. For small island states such as Palau, however, no such awakening was needed.
Solomon Islands and Fiji are expected to benefit from the One Ocean Hub (OOH) research program that recently began work in the Pacific.
To the list of humans assaults on our marine environment from giant garbage islands to over-fishing, add one that you can't see: noise pollution.
At least 26 percent of our oceans need urgent conservation attention to preserve Earth’s marine biodiversity, a University of Queensland-led international study has found. Dr.
A cleaner Pacific Ocean free from single-use plastics.
“Time is running out”, stressed Carolina Schmidt, Chile’s Environment and Climate Minister, in a video address before 2019’s Climate Conference COP25 last December. “There cannot be an effective global response to climate change without a global response on ocean issues,” she added.
