The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), an environmental treaty of the United Nations, publishes a technical report to avoid, reduce and mitigate underwater noise pollution prepared by an OceanCare underwater noise expert.

The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) for a global agreement to end plastic pollution concluded today at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris with civil society organizations appealing to governments not to allow the use of dilatory tactics and procedural questions to set back progress and lower the...

Briefing for INC Delegates on the relevance of the BBNJ agreement for the future international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (ILBI).

Joint Breakfast Briefing for the Second Round of Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC2) by Cook Islands, Norway, EIA, SPREP, University of Wollongong and OceanCare.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the final part of its sixth assessment report. Its content compiled by hundreds of scientists and over eight years can be distilled into this simple message: «act now or it is too late».  

Sadly, many whales are struck each year by boats and as shipping has increased, so have these ship-strikes. Many whales are killed outright in such encounters but some, with varying degrees of wounding, survive. This new research is the first attempt to consider the severity of ship-strikes on whale welfare....