Ahead of this week's crucial United Nations ocean conference, federal Environment Minister Murray Watt promised that by 2030, 30% of Australian waters would be "highly protected."
Ecology
Jun 10, 2025
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France is hosting world leaders this week to confront what the United Nations calls a global "emergency" in the oceans—but what is expected, and can the summit make a difference?
Environment
Jun 8, 2025
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Nations will be under pressure to deliver more than just rhetoric at a UN oceans summit in France next week, including much-needed funds to better protect the world's overexploited and polluted seas.
Environment
Jun 2, 2025
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More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening over the past two decades, according to new research.
Environment
May 27, 2025
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A treaty to protect the high seas will not come to life by the time the UN Oceans Conference opens in June, but persistence by member states has nudged the landmark pact toward enactment.
Environment
Apr 26, 2025
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Over the Easter weekend, seven people drowned along the Australian coast. Most were swept off rock platforms— extremely dangerous locations that are increasingly prevalent in Australia's coastal fatality data.
Environment
Apr 24, 2025
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Humankind is inextricably dependent on the ocean. Many of our greatest civilizations have thrived on the rim of the ocean. Today, we are more reliant than ever on the ocean for our economic, social and physical well-being.
Environment
Apr 14, 2025
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Oceans are at the forefront of many new climate-related projects, but the speed that these projects are being developed and expanded is outpacing the ability to govern them effectively—and manage their potential impacts on ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2025
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Researchers have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth's oceans. Contradicting some recent results, this finding reopens the case that Jupiter-family comets ...
Astrobiology
Dec 3, 2024
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