On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Over fifty million people work on our oceans around the world and over 80% of the goods we consume are delivered by vessels navigating them. But when it ...

Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two thirds of the ...

Leading marine scientists are calling for a complete and permanent ban on fishing and other industrial activities in international waters, according to a study published in the journal Nature, though ...

Fish and other marine organisms, though deeply affected by human activities, don’t respect human borders. The ranges of many commercially important species in fact straddle the borders of countries’ ...

Euronews looks ahead to 2026, from the High Seas Treaty and deep-sea mining to ocean summits and EU marine policy. View on ...

The conservation and management of biodiversity in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction is one of the major conservation issues facing the international community. The threats posed by ...

Bottom trawl fishing on the high seas is the single greatest threat to highly vulnerable deep-sea environments and the biodiversity they shelter, a new report released today by WWF, IUCN, and the ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, often described as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’, has been awarded to two courageous Canadian ...

Far out on the high seas, on any given day, hundreds of fishing vessels drag huge nets, big enough to snag a 747 jumbo jet, across the ocean bottom, vacuuming up 150-year-old fish, flattening ancient ...

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So today we're celebrating an amazing and important step forward for our ocean. This treaty will help enhance the health and resilience of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction, the high seas, and ...