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Nations vow to cut shipping noise as sea life struggles to be heard

France, June 13 -- Marine mammals struggling to feed their young are abandoning key habitats as underwater noise from human activity grows louder - a threat that's now been recognised by dozens of cou... Read More


'Survival' at stake as Vanuatu uses ocean summit to press ICJ climate case

France, June 12 -- Vanuatu is using this week's UN Ocean Conference in Nice to demand climate justice ahead of a landmark legal opinion from the world's top court - with climate minister Ralph Regenva... Read More


Niue, the tiny island selling the sea to save it from destruction

France, June 11 -- On a remote raised coral atoll in the South Pacific, the tiny island nation of Niue is quietly protecting one of the world's most ambitious marine reserves. While global leaders at ... Read More


Ocean's survival hinges on finding the billions needed to save it

France, June 6 -- The ocean supports food, jobs and the climate systems that keep global weather in balance - but only 8 percent of it is protected, and money to safeguard the rest is critically lacki... Read More


The big blue blindspot: why the ocean floor is still an unmapped mystery

France, June 4 -- It is the largest habitat on Earth - and also the least explored. As world leaders prepare to meet in Nice for a major UN summit on the ocean's future, scientists say we still know r... Read More


How weird fossils created by human garbage may baffle future civilisations

France, March 26 -- Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones - and the wider debris of everyday life - are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age. Fossils ... Read More