Sea of Western flags in Oceania?
By Greg Fry and Terence Wesley-Smith
In his recently published article “Sea of many flags”, the Head of the ANU National Security College Rory Medcalf...
High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN
It has been almost two decades in the making but on Saturday night in New York, after days of gruelling round-the-clock talks, UN member...
PNG Fisheries Minister Wong opposes discharge of nukewater into the Pacific Ocean
Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Jelta Wong, has called on Japan to cancel plans to dump more than one million...
Fiji on high alert over Japan’s plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated wastewater
Fiji's Acting Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica said on Friday that Fiji has been on very high alert after Japan planned to discharge the Fukushima...
Japan’s plan to dump nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean continues to worry island...
The release of contaminated water from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has dominated recent discussions between representatives of Pacific island nations and Japan, with...
Oceana calls on Governments to address plastic pollution at Our Ocean conference
Oceana, the largest international advocacy organisation dedicated solely to ocean conservation, is calling on governments to address plastic pollution at the 8th annual Our...
No Fukushima Nuclear discharge: Pacific Elders Voice statement
We note, with deep concern, Japan’s decision to release treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. According to...
Global summit in Panama aims to secure pledges for safeguarding the world’s oceans
Experts, ministers and philanthropists from around the world are meeting in Panama this Thursday and Friday in search of funding and new commitments to...
One of the most important talks no one has heard of’: why the high...
By Karen McVeigh
Almost two-thirds of the world’s ocean lies outside national boundaries. These are the “high seas”, where fragmented and loosely enforced rules have...
Worry, frustration as UN tries to finally agree high seas treaty
UN member states have much work to do to finally agree a treaty to protect the high seas before scheduled negotiations close in five...
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