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The United Kingdom has extended its Animal Welfare Bill to include octopuses, crabs and lobsters as sentient beings. By Arabesque

As proliferating disasters starkly demonstrate, severe damage to the environment is a crime against everyone. Rather than leave it to regulation by individual states, the International Criminal Court should recognise “ecocide” as an international crime. By Kate Mackintosh and Jojo Mehta, Richard Rogers

Protecting the right places in the ocean could safeguard unique and irreplaceable marine life currently at risk from human activities, while increasing the supply of seafood. By Enric Sala

The Atlantic: the driving force behind ocean circulation and our taste for cod

The history of fishing in the Atlantic aid to trace back to the discovery of cod-rich Canadian waters in 1497. Generations of people greatly benefitted from these resources, until the threat of overfishing became impossible to ignore. By Suzanne OConnell, Pascal Le Floc'h

By Arabesque

By José María Figueres

By Sivajyodee Sannassy Pilly and John Turner and Ronan Roche

By Vincent Kneefel and John Duncan

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Oil clumps on a beach in the resort island of Bintan, Indonesia, near Singapore.

The waste oil dumped into the ocean by ships every year is equivalent to eight Exxon Valdez oil spills, and nowhere is the problem as severe as Southeast Asia. The EB Podcast talks to hotelier Andrew Dixon about how a clever idea using a ship tracking system can help curb an environmental crime that has been largely ignored.

Sponsored [The EB Podcast] In the third episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how the shipping industry is charting a course to a low-carbon future.

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