SAVE THE WHALE SANCTUARY IN URUGUAYAN WATERS AND SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC REGION THREATENED BY CHINESE AND IUU FISHING.
We need to stop a massive, Chinese-financed fisheries development in Uruguay– which threatens to wipe-out local and sustainable fishing and will devastate marine life –…
THIS IRISH TEENAGER MAY HAVE A SOLUTION FOR A PLASTIC-FREE OCEAN
5 Aug 2019 – (CNN) A teenager from Ireland may have found a way to rescue our oceans from the growing plastic pollution problem. A walk on the…
2ND UNDP OCEAN INNOVATION CHALLENGE CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES
Fish represent one of the most important sources of food protein to humanity, supplying 17 percent of total animal protein consumed globally. Since 1967, global…
NINE PROJECTS COMBATING MARINE POLLUTION SELECTED AS UNDP OCEAN INNOVATORS
New York, 9 March 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced the nine winners of the 2020 Ocean Innovation Challenge (OIC). OIC is a unique…
NIUE FORMALISES ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST MARINE RESERVES
05 May 2020 – Niue’s enormous marine reserve, the Moana Mahu Marine protected area has now been formalised. The 127,000 square kilometre zone constitutes 40 percent…
TRANSFORMING COASTAL CITIES INTO OCEAN CITIES: CALL FOR ACTION
21 Feb 2020 – A call for action for coastal cities as “hope spots” for environmentally responsible and socially progressive city living and critically important places to…
SURFACE CLEAN-UP TECHNOLOGY WON’T SOLVE OCEAN PLASTIC PROBLEM
17 Aug 2020 – “Even if we could collect all the plastic in the oceans—which we can’t—it’s really difficult to recycle, especially if plastic fragments have…
OCEAN SOLUTIONS SPRINT 2
21 Sept 2020 – Scientists say climate change and pollution could kill off the world’s coral reefs by 2100. UpLink has launched a sprint to find innovations…
CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEANS IN FLUX: HOW LOCAL RESPONSES IN MEXICO ARE STEMMING THE TIDE OF AN INVASIVE SEAWEED
7 Jan 2019 – Ocean warming leads to more sargassum blooms. Caribbean countries dependent on tourism and fisheries are losing visitors marine life to this invasive…
COMMITMENTS WORTH $63 BILLION PLEDGED FOR OCEAN PROTECTION
28 Oct 2019 – Governments, businesses, organizations and research institutions made commitments toward improving marine health and productivity worth more than $63 billion at the Our Ocean…
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