Arctic Council ratifies the Tromsø Declaration
Wednesday, the eight Arctic Council Ministers ratified the Tromsø Declaration. The declaration is the guideline for the work in the Arctic Council the next two years. It is seen as an important leap to...
View ArticleThe International Politics of Whaling: Recent Developments
Whales, large, mysterious, intelligent, and endangered. Has any mammal inspired such romantic images of the sea and love for nature as much as the whale, yet aroused such controversy in global...
View ArticlePlastic Soup – What Legal Response to Marine Debris Pollution ?
In 1997, Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), was sailing his 50-foot racing catamaran, the ORV Alguita, back to California from Hawaii and decided on a...
View ArticleThe Fight for the Chagos Islands
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, about halfway between India and Indonesia, some 500 km from the Maldives, lies a remote group of coralline islands called the Chagos Archipelago. This chain of...
View ArticlePaardenmarkt: A Toxic Legacy of the Great War
Along the Belgian coast, a narrow submerged sand-bank called ‘Paardenmarkt’ (Horse Market) extends from the Port of Zeebrugge to the Dutch border. Few people are aware that this sand-bank is one of the...
View ArticleThe Impact of Offshore Oil Drilling in the Arctic
In July 2015 the Obama administration has given Royal Dutch Shell PLC approval to begin with limited exploratory oil drilling off Alaska's northwest coast, in the Chukchi Sea. The permits were granted...
View ArticleCoral Reefs under Threat?
Are coral reefs condemned to disappear? During the first decade of the 21st century, the intensification of cyclones, the phenomenon of coral bleaching due to ocean warming, outbreaks of a coral-eating...
View ArticleThe Ocean Conference, 5-9 June, New York, 2017
The Ocean C, the first United Nations conference on this issue, presents a unique and invaluable opportunity for the world to reverse the precipitous decline of the health of the oceans and seas with...
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