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Press releaseJun 13, 2025
OceanCare at UNOC3: Offshore Fossil Fuel Exploration Must Stop Now
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fossil Fuels United Nations
Press releaseJun 11, 2025
Powerful international coalition to tackle underwater noise launched at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Underwater Noise Pollution United Nations
NewsJun 09, 2025
Over 114,000 Citizens Call for Ocean Protection: OceanCare Delivers Petition to UN Special Envoy
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue International Cooperation Petitions
Press releaseJun 08, 2025
114,559 Citizens Call for Ocean Protection as OceanCare Delivers Petition to UN Special Envoy
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue United Nations
Press releaseJun 06, 2025
Marine Expert Warn: Ocean Health Has Deteriorated Since Last UN Ocean Conference
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue United Nations
Press releaseJun 03, 2025
Over 200 NGOs Call for Urgent Action on Offshore Fossil Fuel Exploration Ahead of UN Conference in Nice
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fossil Fuels Underwater Noise Pollution
NewsMay 23, 2025
Ship Strikes Kill Two More Sperm Whales Off Canary Islands: Urgent Call for Mandatory Speed Limits
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
NewsApr 30, 2025
OceanCare Makes Waves at ChangeNOW 2025 Summit in Paris
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Fossil Fuels
NewsApr 18, 2025
‘Sailing Across a Wounded Sea‘: A Mediterranean Evening with Marine Ecologist Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Events
NewsApr 15, 2025
OceanCare Applauds Progress on Maritime Decarbonisation at the IMO’s London Meeting
Read nowClimate Change Shipping United Nations
Press releaseApr 11, 2025
New study: Storms Put Grey Seal Pups at Risk as Climate Change Intensifies
Read nowAnimal Rescue Climate Change Seals
Press releaseApr 02, 2025
Global Call on Governments to Commit Banning Offshore Fossil Fuel Exploration at UN Ocean Conference
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fossil Fuels United Nations
NewsMar 18, 2025
International Seabed Authority Council Meeting Opens Amid Growing Calls for a Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
NewsMar 11, 2025
Major Oil Spill Alert in the North Sea
Read nowChemical Pollution Fossil Fuels
Press releaseFeb 26, 2025
Global Instability Highlights Need for Bold European Leadership on Ocean Protection
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Fossil Fuels
Story
Slow Down Ships to Save Marine Life: On EU’s New Maritime Transport Environmental Assessment
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue European Union Shipping
Press releaseFeb 04, 2025
New EU Maritime Transport Assessment Reveals Sustainability Challenges
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue European Union Shipping
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Because Our Planet Is Blue: To the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) – Declaration (2024)
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue
Press releaseOct 23, 2024
Tackling the Trawl Supremacy: OceanCare releases report highlighting need for global action on destructive bottom trawling
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Bottom Trawling Fisheries
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Because Our Planet Is Blue: Pristine Ocean vs. Harmful Human Activities
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Boiling Point: The Mediterranean’s Unprecedented Heat Is a Warning We Can’t Ignore
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change
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Leaving the Fossil Fuels Era Behind
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Featured Underwater Noise Pollution
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Silent Scream of the Deep: Deep-Sea Mining Threatens the Ocean
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining Featured
Press releaseJul 31, 2024
OceanCare Welcomes Austrian Opposition to Deep-Sea Mining
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
Press releaseJul 26, 2024
Deep-Sea Mining: ISA Meeting is Urged to Put Environment and Climate First
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
Press releaseJul 08, 2024
Limiting ship speed is necessary to prevent extinction of great whales in the North-Western Mediterranean
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
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Oceans – Sustainable Food: UNCLOS ICP – Submission (2024)
Read nowBottom Trawling Climate Change Fisheries
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Oceans – Food Security: UNCLOS ICP – Opening Statement (2024)
Read nowBottom Trawling Climate Change Fisheries
Press releaseJun 10, 2024
Because Our Planet Is Blue – international initiative launched
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Petitions
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Destructive Fishing Practices must be banned
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Featured Fisheries
Press releaseMay 21, 2024
International Court: States have legal duty to restore and protect marine habitats
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change International Cooperation
NewsMay 07, 2024
Climeworks’ “Mammoth” vacuum cleaner is not a solution to the climate crisis
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseApr 30, 2024
Effective global Plastics Treaty is possible, but ambitions must be raised
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Plastic Pollution
Press releaseApr 30, 2024
UN member states urged to tackle plastics crisis at heart in new global treaty
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue International Cooperation Plastic Pollution
NewsApr 25, 2024
Climate change: a serious problem for breeding seals in Europe
Read nowClimate Change Seals Species Conservation
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Climate Change: Serious Problem for Breeding Seals in Europe – Infographic (2024)
Read nowClimate Change Seals Species Conservation
Press releaseApr 22, 2024
OceanCare urges UN governments to show ambition at crucial negotiating meeting on global Plastics Treaty
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Plastic Pollution
Press releaseApr 17, 2024
Scientists, civil society and Greek government to deploy technology to prevent ship strikes on sperm whales in the Kythera strait
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
NewsMar 26, 2024
Restoring nature to heal our planet – OceanCare calls on the EU to pass key legislation now
Read nowClimate Change European Union
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Mass Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, Again
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseFeb 29, 2024
Debate at UN environmental summit highlights need for global ban on solar geoengineering
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseFeb 26, 2024
Protecting marine ecosystems and geoengineering Pandora’s box on the agenda of UN environment ministers
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Geoengineering Marine Protected Areas
NewsFeb 19, 2024
OceanCare at Fish Forum 2024 to highlight marine pollution from fishing gear
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fisheries Plastic Pollution
Press releaseFeb 01, 2024
New study: Urgent science-based conservation action needed for Adriatic whales and dolphins
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Dolphins Species Conservation
NewsDec 22, 2023
OceanCare Comments on the Results of the Climate Change Conference – COP28
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseDec 04, 2023
Call for a Carbon Budget for the Mediterranean Region
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Underwater Noise Pollution
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The Right Way to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target?
Read nowClimate Change
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Uncharted waters: what do the recent record marine heatwaves mean for the oceans?
Read nowClimate Change
NewsAug 01, 2023
NO green light for deep-sea mining! Ocean champion countries stand firm.
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining International Cooperation
NewsJul 29, 2023
French shipping company CMA CGM moves shipping routes out of important whale habitat
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
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Holidaying by the Mediterranean? Be aware of these fishes.
Read nowClimate Change Fisheries Tips
Press releaseJul 17, 2023
Governments meet at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to decide fate of the deep-sea
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining International Cooperation
Press releaseJul 07, 2023
More shadows than lights at crucial IMO meeting
Read nowClimate Change Collisions Shipping
Press releaseJun 28, 2023
OceanCare welcomes Switzerland’s positioning for a moratorium on deep-sea mining
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
Press releaseJun 28, 2023
Global pressure on IMO to take key decisions on decarbonisation of shipping and to protect whales from strikes
Read nowClimate Change Collisions Shipping
Press releaseJun 19, 2023
High Seas Alliance applauds adoption of High Seas Treaty and calls for swift ratification
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseJun 08, 2023
Three industrial sectors have the tools to quieten the ocean
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue International Cooperation Shipping
Press releaseJun 01, 2023
Major Danish shipping company strives for a brighter future for endangered sperm whales in Greek waters
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
Press releaseMay 17, 2023
French Shipowners Association calling on Members helping to protect endangered whales
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
NewsMar 23, 2023
Climate Change – the Final Warning!
Read nowClimate Change International Cooperation
NewsFeb 24, 2023
Scientists warn: Noise from deep-sea mining would threaten whales
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining Underwater Noise Pollution
NewsFeb 19, 2023
Major Shipping Company slows down to protect Whales
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
NewsJan 29, 2023
New evidence published that European baleen whales may be shifting northwards as a response to climate change
Read nowClimate Change Whales
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Climate Giants – How whales help to fight climate change
Read nowClimate Change Whales
Press releaseFeb 28, 2022
OceanCare on IPCC report: Marine conservation is climate protection
Read nowClimate Change International Cooperation
NewsNov 08, 2021
Shipping needs to slow down to reach climate targets faster
Read nowClimate Change Collisions
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Whale recovery threat from climate change – the Antarctic evidence
Read nowClimate Change Whales
NewsOct 29, 2021
A wake-up call for ocean protection and climate change mitigation
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseSep 02, 2021
Slow down: Reducing shipping speed helps tackle the climate crisis with immediate effect
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseJul 16, 2021
Can Whale Poo Help Save the Planet?
Read nowClimate Change IWC Whales
Press releaseJul 14, 2021
OceanCare welcomes inclusion of shipping in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Read nowClimate Change
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There is another world, but it is in this one
Read nowClimate Change
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A global registry on fossil fuel reserves
Read nowClimate Change
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Shipping Swiss CO2 to Norway
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseMay 13, 2021
Spain bans any new oil and gas exploration and exploitation by law
Read nowClimate Change
NewsDec 04, 2020
Ships sailing in the Med Sea to use low-sulphur fuels or install gas cleaning systems
Read nowClimate Change