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17 Aug 2020, 5:01 am
A day after Pompeo’s July 13 policy announcement, USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) conducted a FONOP within 12 nautical miles of Cuarteron Reef (Malay: Terumbu Calderon; Mandarin: Huayang Jiao; Tagalog: Calderon Reef; Vietnamese: Bãi Châu Viên) and Fiery Cross Reef (Mandarin: Yongshu Jiao; Tagalog: Kagitingan Reef; Vietnamese: Đá Chữ Thập). [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 9:23 am
In a recent study of reef sharks, for example, researchers deployed more than 15,000 underwater video stations on 371 reefs in 58 countries, yet observed no sharks on almost 20 percent of the reefs. [read post]
9 Aug 2020, 7:50 pm
It is a one-degree world that has seen a girdle of bleached coral across the tropics—a 90 percent collapse in reproductive success along the Great Barrier Reef, the planet’s largest living structure—and the appalling scenes from Australia in December, as thousands of people waded into the ocean at resort towns to escape the firestorms barreling down from the hills…” [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 9:05 pm
Geological Survey study found that coral reefs in the area were degrading at an accelerated pace. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 10:11 am
Contents include:Elke Hellinx & Jan Wouters, An International Lawyer’s Field Guide to Trophy Hunting Grazia Scocca, The Preservation of Coral Reefs as a Key Step for Healthy and Sustainable Oceans: The Belize Case Claudia Gafner-Rojas, Indigenous languages as contributors to the preservation of biodiversity and their presence in international environmental law Sophie Lemaître & Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau, Fighting Wildlife Trafficking: An Overview of the… [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 11:26 am
(Left) Fernando Bermudez and Crystal at the Great Barrier Reef. [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 2:13 pm
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19 Mar 2020, 5:22 pm
In 2017, a federal jury in South Carolina convicted two Chief Engineers on TV Green Sky for pollution from a magic pipe, pictured here: Conscientious mariners and others in the industry can help to fight against harm to ocean wildlife, fragile coral reefs, and ecosystems. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 7:00 am
The City of Hamilton has contributed $14 million[5] to the Randle Reef Sediment Project. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 11:41 am
The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 51, no. 1, 2020) is out. [read post]
24 Nov 2019, 10:42 am
“This Supreme Court Case Could Blow a Huge Hole in the Clean Water Act; Sewage is spilling into the ocean off the cost of Maui and killing coral reefs”: Alex Lubben of Vice News has this report. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 5:00 am
On July 27, China launched a new 4,600 ton long-range oceanographic research vessel that state media claims will have the capacity for deep-sea resource discovery in any ocean. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 1:14 pm
Plastic pollution in the ocean is of epidemic proportion and has the potential to threaten the health of the oceans, coral reefs, food safety and tourism. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 12:58 pm
To better address the complexity of subsurface conditions, construction agreements can include more detailed definitions of Site Condition and Unanticipated Site Condition: “Site Condition” means the natural or man-made physical, surface, subsurface, and other conditions at the site and the surrounding area as a whole, including (a) conditions relating to the environment, transportation, access, waste disposal, handling or storage of materials; (b) the availability or quality of… [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 10:01 am
Joanna Walczak, Southeast Regional Administrator for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Office of Resilience and Coastal Protect reflected on the group’s effort and commended them for breathing a breath of fresh air into the daunting mission of protecting our oceans: “From day one they have brought everything they have to the table, and Force Blue’s perspective has inspired our response effort and invigorated the mission to preserve Florida’s… [read post]
6 May 2019, 5:38 am
But forests and wetlands are being erased worldwide and oceans are under growing stress, says the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the United Nations’ expert nature panel, in the landmark global assessment report. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 1:35 pm
Plastic pollution in the ocean is of epidemic proportion and has the potential to threaten the health of the oceans, coral reefs, food safety and tourism. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 2:55 pm
The system purports to be paired with China’s existing BeiDou satellite navigation framework and use sound waves to penetrate the ocean. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 3:00 am
The ocean has been choked by pollution, fish like the blue fish tuna have been illegally hunted to near extinction, and climate change continues to slowly kill entire ocean environments like the Great Barrier Reef. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 11:26 am
China’s state-owned Xinhua News has reported the opening of a maritime rescue facility on Yongshu Reef (Fiery Cross Reef), one of the artificial islands it has built in the Spratly Islands region of the South China Sea. [read post]
