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Grassroots network launches project to bring decades of learning in community marine conservation to scale In Pacific Islands

The Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network has launched an ambitious €4.4 million (US$5.1 million) project in partnership with the Pacific Communi...

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Climate change adds to plight of endangered sea turtles in Cyprus

PAPHOS, Cyprus (Reuters) – Hatched baby sea turtles on the island of Cyprus struggling to crawl to the sea now face the added threat of climate ...

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Sri Lankan navy tows stricken tanker away from coast, Indian plane sprays trailing slick

COLOMBO (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan navy towed a stricken supertanker away from the Indian Ocean island’s east coast on Wednesday, while an India...

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Islands and technology leaders meet at the GTI e_Convention to accelerate adoption of circular economy and recover from the pandemic

The 7th GTI International Conference goes digital and launches the first global island exhibition GTI Observatory’s task forces in 15 workshops on cir...

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Insuleur, Global Island Partnership and SMILO join the GTI Observatory

As members of the Island Advisory Committee, they will address island needs Greening the Islands signs agreements for cooperation on the GTI Observato...

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Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious

By Navin Singh Khadka Environment correspondent, BBC World Service The amount of oil spilled from the Japanese-owned ship nearby the lagoons and coas...

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Mauritius tourism, reeling from COVID, now hit by oil spill

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Tourist operators in Mauritius fear that an oil spill from a Japanese ship will further damage their businesses, already ree...

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Plastics can take hundreds of years to degrade

Microplastic in Atlantic Ocean ‘could weigh 21 million tonnes’

By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News There are 12-21 million tonnes of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists ha...

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‘Canary in the coal mine’: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds

(Reuters) – Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world red...

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Belize takes ocean action with expanded marine reserve and ban on gill nets

In August 2020, the Belizean government enacted two conservation efforts — the expansion of the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve to be seven times its o...

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