Sounding the alarm about the urgent need to protect coral reefs from extinction within decades, a new coalition of organisations has been launched in the UN Biodiversity Conference, to galvanise global leadership before it is too late.
The government of the world's second biggest plastic polluter will issue a policy this year requiring producers and retailers to take greater responsibility for the waste generated by their products.
Carol Ride
and Charles Le Feuvre –
As we celebrate World Mental Health Day today, leaders are called to protect the community’s mental health by offering a solid action plan to address the increasing impacts of climate change.
Timothy Duignan –
Salt water is literally the most common substance on the surface of Earth, and could be the key to a more sustainable future, writes University of Queensland's Timothy Duignan.
Straw bans are inciting a strong reaction around the world, but why should a targeted effort towards 4 per cent of marine litter be attacked as useless or ineffective, when the posited alternative is no effort at all?
China's opposition to new Marine Protected Areas in the Antarctic may be softening, as it signed for the first time a partnership with the European Union that aims to enhance international ocean governance.
Ping Manongdo –
The new development - to be used for military exercises - will reclaim land using less sand, and introduces the city-state’s first sub-sea level polder.
The ocean remains one of the least developed regions on earth. This is about to change. The ocean and its inestimable pool of resources represents a new economic frontier for ...
