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The Ocean
Out of balance: Everything made by humans now outweighs everything made by nature
Anthropogenic mass - basically everything humans have built - is now thought to weigh the same as all the planet's living biomass, according to a new study.
The Ocean
Here's how fishing stifles the ocean's ability to capture carbon
When fish die naturally, their bodies and the carbon they contain sink to the depths of the ocean. Yet when fished, this carbon is released into the atmosphere as CO2.
SDG 14: Life Below Water
Overfishing is a social injustice. To end it, we need to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies.
Overfishing is a social injustice. To end it, we need to eliminate the harmful fisheries subsidies that are overexploiting the ocean's resources.
SDG 15: Life on Land
The four most promising worlds for alien life in our solar system
Within our solar system, the four most likely planets to sustain life based on their environment, include Mars, Europa, Enceladus and Titan.
SDI2020
How to Save the Planet: What are the challenges in making the planet more sustainable?
To meet the SDGs' environmental targets and build back better after COVID-19, we must invest in climate solutions and making cities and infrastructure more sustainable.
The Ocean
11 innovative and surprising solutions for saving our seas
Changemakers brought together by innovation platform Uplink hail from six continents and tackle a range of challenges facing the Ocean, from freight shipping to plastic pollution.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Highly protected marine areas will benefit UK fishing, not threaten it
Highly protected marine areas are the best way to conserve and restore marine life. Here's why the UK government must seize its chance to create more of them.
The Ocean
How to follow the Virtual Ocean Dialogues
Find all the information you need to follow #OceanDialogues on our social channels.
COVID-19
COVID-19 is a chance to end harmful fishing subsidies. Here's why we must take it
The COVID-19 recovery is an opportunity to foster a sustainable ocean economy. To that end, governments must end the funding of harmful fishing practices.
The Ocean
We need natural solutions to fight ocean and climate risk
The ocean, which feeds us, regulates our climate and is one of the engines of the global economy, is changing at the fastest rate in human history. We need to find practical, powerful way...
Environment and Natural Resource Security
2019 was the oceans' hottest year on record
From coral bleaching and rising sea levels to increased marine heatwaves and more powerful storms, climate change is destroying our ocean ecosystems - harming people just as much as the f...
Climate Change
This Pacific island has banned fishing to allow the marine ecosystem to recover
Palau has been practising "bul" for centuries – and now it’s the philosophy behind its huge new protected marine area.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
The Arctic is a ‘melting pot’ for a lethal virus killing marine mammals
PDV manifests in seals much like the canine version does in dogs — goop discharged from the eyes and nose and a fever.
The Ocean
Illegal fishing plagues the Pacific Ocean. Here's how to end it
Illegal fishing undermines economic development, national security, food security and human rights – and nowhere is this more starkly evident than in the Pacific.
Illicit Economy
Kenya wants to tackle illegal logging and fishing by issuing smart ID cards
More than 35% of the world's mangroves are already gone and they are disappearing three to five times faster than other forests, according to international conservation group WWF.