China Dialogue Ocean
2020 Will Shape the Future of the Oceans
[By Fermín Koop] “Our house is on fire,” said Swedish activist Greta Thunberg at the beginning of 2019. Her...
China Targets Distant-Water Criminals With New Fisheries Law
[By Zhang Chun] As China’s distant-water fishing fleet has grown considerably over the past 20 years, so too has the...
City of Xiamen Leads the Way in Addressing Ocean Plastic
In the port city of Xiamen on China’s southeast coast, three cameras watch the Jiulong river as it wends its way to the se...
China's "Arctic Silk Road"
[By Zhang Chun] If actions to mitigate climate change are not taken and global temperatures continue to rise in line with curre...
Threatened Jiangsu Wetlands Are Now a World Heritage Site
[By Zhang Chun] It is the first autumn since the Tiaozini wetlands became a world heritage site. The artemisia halodendron...
Fighting Climate Change With Ocean-Based Solutions
[By Fred Pearce] Indonesia has turned 40 percent of its coastal mangroves into prawn ponds over the past three decades, exposin...
Spill and Run: Brazil Struggles to ID Tanker Behind Oil Pollution
[By Manuela Andreoni, Letícia Casado and Léo Malafaia] After a long day collecting what felt like tonne...
Distant-Water Fishing Must Become More Transparent
[By Sally Yozell] Commercial fishing employs more than 40 million people in a global market estimated to have reached $156 bill...
How Finance Can Help Protect the World's Ocean Resources
[By Jean-Baptiste Jouffray] Can finance contribute to seafood sustainability? This is an increasingly relevant question gi...
China Needs its Coastal Wetlands
[By Cao Ling] In July this year, UNESCO brought a bird sanctuary on the coast of the Bohai Bay into its prestigious l...