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The US threatens retaliation against states that will support the IMO Net Zero Framework

by Tosca Ballerini 28 AUG 2025 14:45

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The United States announced that it will retaliate against countries that next October will confir...

How does climate change affect coral reefs?

by Sara Perinetto 19 AUG 2025 14:00

This article is also avilable in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Coral reefs, often described as the “rainforests of the sea,” are critical to marine bi...

From the Pacific to Sicily: the relentless Mediterranean odyssey of the Asian seaweed

by Irene Baños Ruiz 14 AUG 2025 08:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Edoardo Piretto’s weathered hands have been scraping scales off fish since he was nine, in t...

How CO₂ storage at sea works

by Giorgio Kaldor 26 JUN 2025 10:30

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Roughly half of the oxygen we breathe comes from the oceans, which also serve as the planet’...

Third UN Ocean Conference: a missed opportunity to protect marine life

by Tosca Ballerini 17 JUN 2025 13:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Frome Nice - The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) concluded on Friday, the 13th of Ju...

UNOC3 Nice, the third United Nations Ocean Conference kicks off

by Tosca Ballerini 09 JUN 2025 08:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Nice - The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) begins today June 9 and will run unt...

Trump's deep sea mining order could destabilize international cooperation

by Leticia Reis de Carvalho 05 MAY 2025 15:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano As Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), I take note of the Executive Ord...

Sustainably nourishing the global population: the third challenge of the Ocean Decade

by Lucrezia Lenardon 09 AUG 2024 15:00

UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the United Nations aim to reverse the cycle of decline affecting our seas by making the ocean healthy and resilient, safe, clean, productive, ...

Restoring marine ecosystems, the second challenge of the Ocean Decade

by Lucrezia Lenardon 19 JUL 2024 17:00

As part of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the Ocean Decade), UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission released ten White Papers, each addressing complementa...

Why Beryl is the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever (and will not stay an isolated case)

by Simone Fant 19 JUL 2024 15:00

Increasingly earlier, more intense and devastating, atlantic hurricanes, fuelled by steadily rising ocean temperatures, are becoming ever more dangerous and unpredictable. So much so that some ...

Marine pollution, the first challenge of the Ocean Decade

by Lucrezia Lenardon 12 JUL 2024 16:30

UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission recently published ten White Papers addressing specific challenges of the Decade of the Ocean. These papers represent a collective effort to devel...

ITLOS: States have a legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

by Tosca Ballerini 23 MAY 2024 17:30

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 21st of May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advis...