China Dialogue Ocean
What is Causing Plagues of Sea Stars?
"Lots of attention is paid during an outbreak, but the seastars soon disappear,” said one researcher at the Yellow Sea...
Cold Fish: The Global Cooling Effect of Ocean Life
[By Emma Bryce] What’s the value of a fish? You might think about its market price or, given its role as a primary source...
Global Deal on Harmful Fishing Subsidies Could Be in Reach
[By Fermin Koop] The world cannot afford to further delay action to protect the ocean, governments and conservationists agreed...
Sierra Leone Sells Ecotourism Destination for a Chinese Fishing Port
[By Abdul Brima] Months after becoming Sierra Leone’s president in 2018, Julius Maada Bio scrapped a much-hyped internati...
Can Joe Biden Kick-Start Progress on Ocean Conservation?
[By Todd Woody] In the opening months of President Joe Biden’s administration there has been a sea change in ocean policy...
Indonesia Faces a Marine Plastic "Emergency"
[By Nabiha Shahab] The UN has called marine plastic pollution “a slow-motion catastrophe," and a rece...
Chile Proposes High-Seas Marine Protected Area Off South America
[By Fermín Koop] With more than 41 percent of its waters already covered by marine protected areas (MPAs), Chile has pro...
UN Highlights Illegal Fishing With "Fight IUU Day"
[By Jessica Aldred] The United Nations uses June 5 every year as an opportunity to draw public attention to the negative impact...
China is Setting Up its First Marine National Parks
[By Han Qing] The Changdao archipelago marks the threshold between the Bohai and Yellow seas. It is already home to nine natio...
How 100 Giant Companies Dominate the Ocean Economy
[By Jean-Baptiste Jouffray] Humanity has depended on the ocean for millennia. But the extent and diversity of today’s oce...