CO2: 420.23 ppmThe Ocean is the planet’s largest ecosystem, regulating the climate, and providing livelihoods for billions. But its health is in danger. The second UN Ocean Conference, due to take place in June, will be an important opportunity to redress the damage that mankind continues to inflict on marine life and livelihoods.
The ocean is more acidic than it's been in 26,000 years and hotter than ever as greenhouse gases continue to flood the atmosphere. Here's what it could mean for the climate crisis.
Rapid ocean warming has triggered a drop in global fish populations and has threatened communities and fishing economies.
Three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the marine environment have been significantly altered by human actions. On the International Day for Biological Diversity, the UN Secretary-General urged to end the ‘senseless and destructive war against nature’.
"The hope is only to act now," the World Meteorological Organization has urged, as it said there was still hope in the form of rapid action, and many of the solutions already exist.
It’s been five decades since Sweden hosted the world’s first conference to make the environment a major issue, in recognition of the “human sacrifice zone” it could become if we fail to look after it, according to rights experts. On Monday, ahead of fresh discussions in Stockholm this week to discuss further action, the experts warned that much greater efforts are needed which could save millions of lives every year.
Tiny island nation with no navy sets out bold ambition to protect 100% of its ocean, an area the size of Vietnam, from illegal fishing
The world’s longest serving environment correspondent explains the origins of a slow and continuing journey
Damaging bottom-scraping took place in 58 out of 64 offshore marine protected areas last year, new data shows
New data shows ‘mystifying’ lack of progress in post-Brexit pledge to curb bottom-trawling, two years after landmark legislation