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Canada's reopened cod fishery on shaky ground
Jun 04, 2025 (AFP)
The fishery off the coast of the nation's easternmost Newfoundland province had been a major economic driver for centuries, providing livelihoods for local and ...
Pledge to protect oceans falling billions short; as EU eyes 'leadership' role
Jun 04, 2025 (AFP)
In 2022, nearly 200 countries agreed to designate 30 percent of the world's oceans as protected areas by 2030, but so far just 8.4 percent are covered. Some $15...
Paris seeks personhood status for River Seine
Jun 04, 2025 (AFP)
In a resolution adopted on Wednesday, the Paris City Council called on parliament to pass a law granting the Seine legal personhood to enable "an independent gu...
Coral frozen in time throws lifeline for Great Barrier Reef
Jun 04, 2025 (AFP)
The world's largest store of cryogenically frozen coral is a frosty Noah's Ark for an ecosystem that scientists warn could be the first to disappear if climate ...
Ban high-seas fishing, mining 'forever': experts
Jun 04, 2025 (AFP)
In a commentary in the journal Nature, published ahead of a UN oceans summit in France, researchers and conservationists called on governments to act more decis...
Britain's biggest water supplier suffers rescue blow
Jun 03, 2025 (AFP)
Thames, which supplies around 16 million homes and businesses in London and elsewhere in southern England, is drowning in debt but had avoided a government resc...
Coral-rich Greek archipelago hopes to gain from trawler ban
Jun 03, 2025 (AFP)
The modest catch nevertheless quickly drew several islanders in search of fresh fish, a rarity in past years in this island chain in the northeastern Aegean Sea...
Year after exodus, silence fills Panama island threatened by sea
Jun 03, 2025 (AFP)
The evacuation of around 1,200 members of the Indigenous Guna community to a new life on the mainland was one of the first planned migrations in Latin America d...
Atlantic ocean current unlikely to collapse with climate change
Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)
However, a new study from Caltech finds that although the AMOC will weaken under global warming, it is likely to do so to a much lesser extent than current proj...
Iraq probes fish die-off in southern marshes
Jun 02, 2025 (AFP)
One possible cause for the localised die-off could be a shortage of oxygen sparked by low water flow, increased evaporation and rising temperatures fuelled by c...
Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution
Jun 02, 2025 (AFP)
But this crucial ally has developed alarming symptoms of stress -- heatwaves, loss of marine life, rising sea levels, falling oxygen levels and acidification ca...
In a hotter future, what comes after coral reefs die?
Jun 02, 2025 (AFP)
This is not a far-off scenario. Scientists predict that the rise of 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) will be reached within a decade and that beyond that point, man...
World coming up short on promised marine sanctuaries
Jun 02, 2025 (AFP)
"With less than 10 percent of the ocean designated as MPAs (marine protected areas) and only 2.7 percent fully or highly protected, it is going to be difficult ...
Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceans
Jun 02, 2025 (AFP)
The third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) seeks to build global unity and raise money for marine conservation even as nations disagree over deep-sea mining, plastic ...
UK's muddy saltmarshes vital carbon 'sink', researchers say
May 30, 2025 (AFP)
"Mud matters," said Tom Brook, ocean conservation specialist at WWF which produced the report. "Saltmarshes are powerful natural allies in the fight against cli...
Top UK water supplier hit with record fine over pollution
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
UK water watchdog Ofwat said an investigation into "how the company was managing its treatment works and wider wastewater network uncovered failings that have a...
AI constellation to monitor UK water networks with Quub tech
May 28, 2025 (SPX)
The European arm of Quub, Inc., headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will develop and operate the satellites, which will provide high-frequency imaging ana...
Self powered jellyfish cyborgs offer eco friendly tools for ocean monitoring
May 28, 2025 (SPX)
A team led by Dai Owaki, associate professor in Tohoku University's Department of Robotics, has demonstrated how mild electric pulses can guide jellyfish swimmi...
UK to build new reservoirs as climate change sparks drought fears
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
The environment department took control of the planning process to build two "major reservoirs" in east England for the first time in 30 years, as it warned nat...
EU and six member states ratify UN treaty on high seas
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
Ratification of the treaty's text -- first adopted in June 2023 after years of negotiations -- was a "historic step towards protecting the world's oceans and pr...
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