January 26, 2025 – The city of Nice, the second-largest city on the Mediterranean coast of southern France, has announced that, as of July 1 of this year, it will prohibit the docking of cruise ships with a capacity of more than 900 passengers or a length of more than 190 meters. The reason is…

On January 20, 2025, according to the Chinese Marine Police, in 2024, the Chinese Marine Police Bureau carried out the “Blue Sea” special law enforcement action, and marine police agencies at all levels seized more than 250 cases of pirated mining of sea sand, illegal use of the sea, illegal dumping, and threats to the…

On January 23, 2025, at a regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning said that the Chinese scientific research institutions have completed the detection and analysis of the first independent sampling samples taken by the Chinese side of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear contaminated water, and that no abnormality has been seen in…

Turkey’s “Zero Marine Debris” project has completed its first five-year provincial action plan with a total of 245,000 tons of marine debris cleaned up over the past five years. In 2024 alone, 25,480 tons of marine debris, including persistent pollutants such as plastic bags, bottles and fishing nets, were cleaned up. 2025 will see the…

In order to combat climate change and protect marine ecosystems, studies have recommended that Canada include seafloor carbon “hotspot” areas in the expansion of its network of marine protected areas. Although these areas cover only about 2 per cent of the seafloor, they are estimated to contain at least 10 times as much carbon as…

Recently, a high-profile “net-type” marine debris clean-up operation was launched in Zhejiang Province, China. The Department of Ecology and Environment of Zhejiang Province, in conjunction with a number of other departments, issued the “Implementation Plan for Marine Garbage Cleanup in Coastal Cities of Zhejiang Province”, which was the first time that a large-scale cleanup was…

Huawei, together with the IUCN and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), is launching a three-year Tech4Nature project to monitor and protect coral reefs and biodiversity in Kenya’s Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Park and Nature Reserve. The project will deploy underwater cameras, photogrammetric and audio monitoring technologies, and will introduce an AI system that will identify specific target…

On the evening of January 6, 2025, a tanker ran aground in the waters off Hakodate City, Hokkaido. on January 7, a civilian salvage vessel attempted to tow the tanker away from the shore but was unsuccessful. in the early morning of January 8, the tanker began leaking fuel oil. the authorities have set up…

On January 12, 2025, about 29 tons of nuclear wastewater from Unit 2 of the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant in South Korea was discharged into the sea without quality testing. The incident has aroused widespread concern and worries that nuclear radiation and nuclear waste in nuclear wastewater may cause serious damage to the marine ecosystem,…

On January 10, 2025, a new offshore patrol vessel designed and built by the French Directorate General of Maritime Affairs, Fisheries and Aquaculture will enter service. Equipped with a wind-assisted propulsion system, the patrol vessel follows the International Maritime Organization’s Tier III environmental standards and has a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain that reduces fuel consumption and…