The announcement by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) that it plans to discharge about 54,600 tons of sewage from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea by 2025 has sparked widespread controversy and concern. Neighboring countries, such as China and South Korea, have expressed strong concern, and international environmental organizations, such as Greenpeace, have…

According to the International Energy Network (IEN) on January 24, 2025, satellite images verified by the BBC reveal that a large amount of oil has spread into the Kerch Strait between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula. Earlier, two tankers suffered serious damage in the Black Sea, resulting in an oil spill. The Volgoneft-239 ran aground…

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…