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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas, February 18, 2022 (ENS) – “They’ll come into U.S. waters, they’ll fish, they’ll grab as much snapper as they can and they’ll go [...]

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TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken [...]

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GLASGOW, Scotland, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has just expanded the marine reserve around the Galapagos Islands by 45 percent and created a protected swimway from [...]

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MANILA, Philippines, September 13, 2021 (ENS) – To finance ocean protection projects in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank has issued its first dual-tranche blue bonds denominated in [...]

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ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 9, 2021 (ENS) – A new ocean conservation initiative is gathering force to protect 18 million square kilometers (seven million square miles) of the ocean over the [...]

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LYON, France, May 4, 2021 (ENS) – Thousands of suspects, companies and criminal networks engaged in maritime pollution have been detected and dozens arrested in a global operation led by [...]

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WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, April 21, 2021 (ENS) – Coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions and economic slowdowns slammed the brakes on human activities in the oceans starting last spring and ongoing. Noise [...]

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TEL AVIV, Israel, February 28, 2021 (ENS) – The level of tarry pollution on Israel’s Rosh Hanikra Beach near the Lebanese border is now rated medium-heavy, after new lumps [...]

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MIAMI, Florida, January 28, 2021 (ENS) – With the dangers of climate change increasing at a rapid rate, Caribbean coral reefs are in decline, overcome by seaweed. Now scientists think [...]

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GALVESTON, Texas, January 22, 2021 (ENS) – One of the last acts of the outgoing Trump administration was taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, which has [...]

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NEW YORK, New York, November 17, 2020 (ENS) – Technical experts must be granted immediate access to a rusting oil supertanker threatening an environmental calamity in the Red Sea, [...]

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NEW YORK, New York, June 8, 2020 (ENS) – The World Oceans Day Theme for 2020 is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean,” but the coronavirus pandemic is top-of-mind [...]

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