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Startups show off ocean-preserving tech at Paris trade fair
Jun 13, 2025 (AFP)
Recently developed AI programs capable of learning from vast datasets have boosted projects trying to understand and predict real-world phenomena, several compa...
UN summit to end with boost for ocean conservation
Jun 13, 2025 (AFP)
But the UN Ocean Conference is set to fall short on major new financial pledges for poorer island nations, and many delegates are also disappointed that fossil ...
'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit
Jun 12, 2025 (AFP)
The islands are besieged by rising seas and worsening storms, their coastlines choked in plastic, fishing waters plundered and coral reefs bleached and barren. ...
Value oceans, don't plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP
Jun 12, 2025 (AFP)
The archipelago in the far South Pacific Ocean, an overseas territory of France, is led by Moetai Brotherson, who believes oceans should be valued, not plundere...
'We have to try everything': Vanuatu envoy taking climate fight to ICJ
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
The landmark case has given Ralph Regenvanu a front row seat to history. As Vanuatu's environment minister, he has taken the decades-long climate fight by Pacif...
Monsoon-loving Indian expats chase rain in UAE desert
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
Using satellite imagery, weather data and other high-tech tools, the amateur meteorologist tracks potential rainfall spots across the desert country and, along ...
China carefully assembling a deep-sea mining strategy
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
The world's oceans, both international waters and those under national jurisdiction, are rich in minerals and metals, like cobalt, nickel and copper. These are ...
Nations call for 'quieter' ocean to help marine life
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
The din created by shipping and other human activities is rising at an alarming rate, marine conservation groups say, a major problem for sea life reliant on so...
Farmed production of some fish - and seaweed - is soaring
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, nearly 99 million tonnes of aquatic animals (fish, molluscs like oysters and mussels and crustaceans li...
Leaders warn race for minerals could turn seabed into 'wild west'
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
Growing anxiety over Trump's unilateral push to fast-track deep-sea mining in international waters shot to the surface at the opening of the UN Ocean Conference...
UN summit to tackle 'emergency' in world's oceans
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
World leaders attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice have been told to come up with concrete ideas -- and money -- to tackle what organisers call a global "e...
US oyster gardeners rebuild nature's own water-cleaning system
Jun 08, 2025 (AFP)
The 53-year-old is an "oyster gardener" who fosters thousands of the mollusks at her waterside home until they are old enough to be planted in the Chesapeake Ba...
World leaders urged to step up for overexploited oceans
Jun 08, 2025 (AFP)
The United Nations has sounded the alarm over an oceans "emergency" and leaders gathering in Nice will be called to commit money and stronger protections for th...
UK announces plans to extend seabed trawling ban
Jun 08, 2025 (AFP)
Under the plans, which environment minister Steve Reed was due to announce at the UN Ocean Conference in France later Monday, bottom trawling will be banned in ...
'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Jun 06, 2025 (AFP)
Metal-containing deep-sea nodules, which have the appearance of potato-size pebbles and typically contain nickel and cobalt, are highly sought for use in electr...
Missing merluza: Chile's battle to save its favorite catch
Jun 06, 2025 (AFP)
Strong winds make for a choppy seven-nautical-mile (13 kilometer) voyage from the port of Valparaiso to deep waters that decades ago were teeming with Chile's f...
EU eyes leadership role on oceans ahead of UN summit
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
The 27-nation bloc wants to position itself as a leader in the field and will present the "European Ocean Pact" at next week's conference in the French city of ...
Ailing Baltic Sea in need of urgent attention
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
Unveiling its road map to protect Europe's seas, the European Ocean Pact, Brussels announced a summit on the state of the Baltic Sea in late September. The semi...
Executive bonuses banned at six UK water companies over pollution
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
The new measures, whose targets include the country's biggest supplier, financially troubled Thames Water, prohibit the companies from paying bonuses "to water ...
Australia says China anxiety, geography driving closer Indonesia ties
Jun 05, 2025 (AFP)
His visit to meet counterpart Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin in Jakarta came weeks after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made Indonesia his first foreign trip f...
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