This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Union together with Canada and the US, are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Galway Statement. The Galway Statement is a cooperation agreement to join forces on Atlantic Ocean research, increase the knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean and build a common […]Galway Statement anniversary: a decade of marine research cooperation along and across the Atlantic Ocean
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Union together with Canada and the US, are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Galway Statement. The Galway Statement is a cooperation agreement to join forces on Atlantic Ocean research, increase the knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean and build a common […]Fisheries management review: less overfishing, but further efforts to protect marine resources needed
June 2, 2022 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission published its Communication “Towards more sustainable fishing in the EU: state of play and orientations for 2023” giving an annual review of EU’s fisheries management and outlining priorities ahead for 2023. The figures, as assessed by independent scientific agencies, show that […]This innovative project fuses journalism and music to highlight lawlessness at sea
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Ian Urbina, Investigative Reporter and Director, The Outlaw Ocean Project Environmental crimes and human rights abuses are rife at sea and their offshore status means they’re largely hidden from the world.The Outlaw Ocean Project is a journalistic non-profit […]This brewery is ditching plastic six-pack rings to save marine life
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Douglas Broom, Senior Writer, Formative Content Fancy a beer? If you’re picking up a six-pack, stop and look at the packaging. About 100,000 marine creatures die every year after becoming entangled in ocean plastic waste, according to the WWF. […]Chart of the day: Why marine protected sites matter more than ever
April 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Douglas Broom, Senior Writer, Formative Content Our oceans face multiple threats. Climate change, pollution, acidification, overfishing and deep-sea mining all pose an increasing risk to the 80% of our planet’s biodiversity that lives in our seas. In 2015, as one of […]
