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U.N. Ocean Conference

At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas

The global goal of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 remains paramount to attendees who call for accelerated action to halt biodiversity loss and climate change.

By Teresa Tomassoni

A green sea turtle rests in the Galapagos. Credit: Carlos Espinosa/Charles Darwin Foundation
Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves Robles speaks at the U.N. Ocean Conference on June 9 in Nice, France. Credit: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth

‘We’ve Treated it as a Global Waste Dump’: Costa Rica’s President Calls for Action on the Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

Princess Angelika Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho from the Kingdom of Tonga speaks at the One Ocean Science Congress on June 4 ahead of the U.N. Ocean Conference in Nice, France. Credit: Stephane Lesbats/Ifremer

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales

By Katie Surma

Workers handle a fishing net next to a commercial trawler docked at the port of Nea Michaniona in northern Greece on May 22. Credit: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images

UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea

By Teresa Tomassoni

WHOI marine biologist Amy Apprill conducts a visual survey of a degraded coral reef in St. John to count the number of young corals that have recently settled on the reef. Credit: Dan Mele/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Teresa Tomassoni

Every two weeks at the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, marine biology students descend about five meters in the sea to take care of a coral nursery of the staghorn species in Portobelo, Panama, with which they aim to restore reefs damaged by climate change and pollution. Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

Global Scientific Community Urges World Leaders to Transform Research Into Policy Ahead of UN Ocean Conference

By Teresa Tomassoni

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