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Treaty ahoy? Talks to protect high seas enter last day
Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)
After more than 15 years of informal and then formal talks, negotiators are coming to the end of two more weeks of discussions, the third "final" session in les...
Vanuatu quest for ICJ climate ruling backed by 100 nations
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
With rising sea levels threatening its future, Vanuatu has spearheaded a drive for the court to define what legal responsibility countries have for the changing...
Leaders gather in Panama to halt threats against oceans
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
About 600 government officials, businesspeople, environmental activists and academics are expected to rub shoulders at the two-day Our Ocean conference in the C...
Rising seas eating away at Honduran fishing village
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
But it was not a quake. Nor a tsunami. A much slower, but equally destructive force is at work in Cedeno and other villages on the Pacific Gulf of Fonseca: sea ...
Erdogan says May election to go ahead despite Turkey quake
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
After the massive 7.8-magnitude quake that killed more than 45,000 people in Turkey, speculation mounted on whether the polls -- which could keep Erdogan's Isla...
La Nina ending but warming El Nino may strike soon: UN
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
The outgoing La Nina phenomenon, a cooling of surface temperatures that can have a widespread impact on global weather conditions, started in September 2020. Ho...
UN head says high seas treaty must be 'ambitious'
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
After 15 years of formal and informal talks, delegates have been meeting in New York since February 20 to discuss a text that aims to protect nearly half the pl...
Countries meet to halt wide-ranging threats against oceans
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
Some 600 leaders of government, the business sector, green groups and academics will gather in the Central American country on Thursday and Friday to discuss ex...
In Sierra Leone, the people fighting the sea to build a home
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
The widowed mother of six, who sells soft drinks from her front porch, built the home from the ground up -- or, more precisely, from the water up. Most of the h...
Worry, frustration as UN tries to finally agree high seas treaty
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
After 15 years of formal and informal talks, delegates have been meeting in New York since February 20 for the third "final" negotiating round in less than a ye...
Mining at key hydrothermal vents could endanger species at distant sites
Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)
The study, which was conducted by scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Eart...
Study of US hydroelectric dams shows benefits to local economies decline with improvements in transmission capabilities
Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)
The study, by a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), appears in The Economic Journal. "I wanted to provide the best evidence on the short- and long-r...
Levels of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates plunge in south
Feb 26, 2023 (AFP)
In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the mighty Euphrates dry in patches. The water ministry blam...
Ben-Gurion engineers develop one of the fastest and most efficient amphibious robots
Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)
Their findings were published earlier this month in the peer-reviewed journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics in an article entitled "A novel wave-like crawling ...
UN tries anew to finish treaty protecting the high seas
Feb 21, 2023 (AFP)
After more than 15 years of formal and informal talks, this is the third time in less than a year that negotiators have converged on New York in what, yet again...
UN to try anew to finish treaty protecting the high seas
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
After more than 15 years of formal and informal talks, this will be the third time in less than a year that negotiators converge on New York in what, yet again,...
Concerns and impatience over mining the world's seabeds
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
"I think this is a real and imminent risk," Emma Wilson of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, an umbrella organization of environmental groups and scientific ...
Protecting high seas off Chile's coast depends on UN vote in New York
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
Urgently seeking to prevent biodiversity loss in these waters, Chile is pushing for a new marine protected area (MPA) to be created, and hoping to seal the deal...
All hands on deck as UN meets to protect high seas
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
After more than 15 years of informal and formal talks, the meeting is the third time in less than a year that negotiators are gathering for what is due to be th...
Building higher islands could save the Maldives from sea-level rise
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Southampton, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and TEDI-London, working w...
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