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Cash offered for Great Barrier Reef rescue ideas
Australia is calling on the world's top scientific minds to help save the Great Barrier Reef, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund research into protecting the world's largest living structure. The UNESCO World ...
- January 17, 2018
Ultra-thin sun shield could protect Great Barrier Reef
An ultra-fine biodegradable film some 50,000 times thinner than a human hair could be enlisted to protect the Great Barrier Reef from environmental degradation, researchers said Tuesday. The World Heritage-listed site, ...
- March 28, 2018
UN chief: save the oceans to avert 'global catastrophe'
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries to put aside national gain to save the oceans and avert a "global catastrophe" as he opened the first UN ocean conference. The five-day meeting is the first ...
- June 16, 2017
Vast Antarctic marine reserves in focus at meeting
Campaigners Monday urged global leaders to put aside differences and create two vast Antarctic marine sanctuaries to protect one of the world's last untouched wilderness and a unique array of species, including whales and ...
- October 20, 2015
World's nations meet in Paris to rescue ocean life this time
It took a decade to get to the negotiating table, and it could easily take another to finish the job, but UN talks in New York to safeguard life in the high seas finally begin in earnest on Monday (March 28).
- March 28, 2016
New Zealand to create France-sized marine sanctuary off northeast coast
New Zealand unveiled plans to create a South Pacific marine sanctuary the size of France, saying it would protect one of the world's most pristine ocean environments. Prime Minister John Key on Monday said the Kermadec ...
- September 30, 2015
UN begins negotiations on treaty to protect imperiled high seas
United Nations on Tuesday kicked-off talks on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection. Four sessions of talks, each lasting two weeks, are ...
- September 3, 2018
Climate Change is real
In a surprise move, US Senate Republicans joined Democrats and went on record on Wednesday acknowledging that climate change is real. The symbolic amendment attached to a controversial bill authorizing construction of the ...
- January 23, 2015
US president visits with huge oil slick threatening disaster
A giant oil slick closed in on the fragile Louisiana coast on Sunday after attempts to stop it faltered, threatening an environmental and economic disaster as President Barack Obama arrives to visit. With Mr. Obama expected ...
- May 3, 2010
Global marine populations halved since 1970, WWF says
Populations of marine mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish have dropped by about half in the past four decades, with fish critical to human food suffering some of the greatest declines, WWF warned Wednesday. In a new report, ...
- September 17, 2015