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‘Let’s All Become the Champions the Ocean Needs’, Secretary-General Tells Race Summit, Calling 2023 Year of Super Action in Ending Seas’ Emergency

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Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Ocean Race Summit, in Cabo Verde ....
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MIT Technology Review Insights’ Blue Technology Barometer weighs the state of oceans in its second annual ranking, with insights from UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 5, 2022 – Produced by MIT Technology Review Insights in association with Morgan Stanley, the Blue Technology Barometer 2022/23 (BTB) is the second annual comparative ranking of 66 countries and territories on the progress…
Unsplash/Tobias Jelskov Flamingoes on Laguna Colorada in Bolivia.

‘Without nature, we have nothing’: UN chief sounds alarm at key UN biodiversity event

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The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.
Plastic pollution and juvenile fish. Photo: Naja Bertolt Jensen Unsplash

The future is blue

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Accelerating action for the blue economy in Fiji
Microplastic samples collected from the North Atlantic during the eXXpedition Round the World voyage (Credit: Sophie Dingwall)

Study demonstrates how microplastic particles differ across the Atlantic Ocean

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The research was conducted by scientists at the University working with the charity eXXpedition
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What do plastics have to do with climate change?

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When you think of plastic pollution, you may think of plastic bags strangling sea animals or bottles littering the landscape. But the impacts of plastic pollution go far beyond the finished product and start with how plastics are made.
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What Ocean Sustainability Means for Business

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The global economy heavily relies on the ocean, with around 90% of goods being transported by sea globally. Yet destruction, overexploitation and pollution continue to damage the ocean. If the pace of ocean deterioration that human-induced climate…
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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Global Plastic Pollution

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As negotiations around a global plastic pollution treaty continue, Duke University experts in science, policy, business, history, and medicine, including selected ocean innovators working on the Global Plastics Policy Inventory, outline the urgency…
© World Bank/Dominic Chavez Fruit and vegetables grow in a greenhouse outside Bamako in Mali.

Plastics are piling up in soil across the world warns UN environment agency

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Plastics used in farming activities are accumulating in agricultural soil worldwide at an alarming rate, a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) published on Monday reveals.
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Small Island Developing States - UNDP SIDS Bulletin- Issue 63

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This bulletin features examples of SIDS’ leadership across the pillars of the SIDS Offer, including features on Vanuatu’s ambitious climate targets, a digital platform for fisheries in Seychelles, initiatives in innovative finance and digital…
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How local NGOs in Seychelles and the Bahamas are working with youth to raise awareness and inspire action to address marine plastic pollution

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World Clean Up Day (17 September 2022) unites millions of volunteers, governments and organisations in 191 countries to tackle the global waste problem and build a sustainable world.
Mangrove forests in Australia (one shown) tend to grow according to a roughly 18-year lunar cycle, a new study finds. KRZYSZTOF DYDYNSKI/LONELY PLANET RF/GETTY IMAGES

Mangrove forests expand and contract with a lunar cycleMangrove forests expand and contract with a lunar cycle

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The carbon-sequestering trees flourish in sync with a roughly 18-year tide cycle linked to the moon