A remote beach north of the Arnhem Coast in Australia’s Northern Territory is at the forefront of global plastic pollution, with the local Yolngu people responding to tens of thousands of kilograms of consumer plastics and discarded fishing nets washing up on the beach each year, and a huge amount of regular clean-up work, such…

On December 2, Cambodia’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and China’s Ministry of Natural Resources signed a clean, green and sustainable agreement under the Sustainable Ocean Cooperation Initiative, which will allow both parties to jointly address climate change and ensure a sustainable future through the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems, including ocean cleanups, capacity-building and…

According to the international online news on December 5, because Japan’s large chemical manufacturing company ube under a plant located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Ube City, the discharge of sewage containing 280 times the standard chemical substances into the ocean, local time on December 5, Japan Ube Coastal Security Agency, suspected of violating the “Water Pollution…

In November 2024, at the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species showed that 44% of the world’s reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction. This grim data shows that human activities such as climate change, overfishing and marine pollution are seriously threatening the marine ecological…

On November 1, 2024, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) of the Hong Kong SAR Government announced the establishment of the North Lantau Marine Park (NLMP), the eighth and largest marine park in Hong Kong, to enhance the conservation of the Chinese White Dolphins (CWD) and the marine environment and ecosystem in North Lantau…

In the waters off Cape Fayes on the east coast of Mauritius, Chinese enterprises and Mauritian environmental protection organizations have jointly created a coral nursery. In the past decades, affected by global warming, marine pollution, overfishing and other factors, coral reefs around the world have experienced widespread bleaching and even death, and Mauritius coral reefs…

The 2024 East Asian Seas Conference and Xiamen International Ocean Week was held in Xiamen, China, from November 6 to 12, with the theme “Blue Collaboration for the Future: A Sustainable and Resilient Ocean”. Dasrul, Director of Coastal and Marine Pollution and Degradation Control of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia, participated in…

 The fifth session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a legally binding international instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (inc-5), will be held from November 25 to December 1, 2024 in Busan, South Korea. This demonstrates the importance that the international community attaches to the issue of plastic pollution…

On November 4, the forum was co-sponsored by the Center for Island Studies of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the China Ocean Development Foundation, and the Pacific Islands Development Forum. Under the theme of “Building Blue Dreams and Promoting Prosperity of Islands”, the forum set five topics, namely, marine disaster prevention and mitigation, ecological protection…

Global coral reefs are undergoing a fourth bleaching: the world is experiencing the fourth global coral reef bleaching event on record, and the second in a decade, due to the impacts of climate change. Since the beginning of 2023, coral reef bleaching has been documented in more than 53 countries and territories, including Australia’s Great…