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The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has it been neglected in global climate talks?Carbon & Climate
The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has it been neglected in global climate talks?
Climate change is commonly discussed as though it’s a uniquely atmospheric phenomena. But the crisis is deeply entwined with the ocean, and this has largely been neglected in international climate talks. -
Countries fail to agree on Antarctic conservation measures for fifth straight yearFor the fifth year in a row, a council of nations involved in Antarctic fishing operations have failed to agree on new conservation measures which experts had hoped would protect the Southern Ocean from overfishing.
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Hospital waste, not masks, are plastic threat of pandemic: studyA new study has found that 26,000 metric tons of pandemic-related plastic waste has been released into the world’s oceans since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2020. -
From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the growth of coral citiesA Portuguese company that was forged in Southeast Asia is building an underwater city for coral in Sultan Iskandar Marine Park, Malaysia, made from food waste such as rice husks.
Marine Opinion
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'Octopussy': animals have feelings too– The United Kingdom has extended its Animal Welfare Bill to include octopuses, crabs and lobsters as sentient beings. -
Prosecuting ecocide– 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. -
A triple win for oceans, climate, and us– 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.
Videos
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Manila’s informal settlers face relocation to give way to massive bay clean up– The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
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We are eating a credit card's worth of plastic every week– A campaign by the WWF Singapore has revealed that the average person consumes approximately 5g of plastic every week. The NGO is calling on governments and businesses around the world to forge a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
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Documentary film Sexy Killers probes Indonesian candidates’ ties to Big Coal– Ahead of Indonesia’s presidential election on April 17, an online movie was recently published showing the links between Indonesian coal and energy companies and the country’s political elites.
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This robot is replanting endangered reefs with heat-resistant corals– Meet LarvalBot. She’s here to save the sea.
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