January 31, 2025 – Greek shipping company Eurobulk is facing legal penalties in the United States for violating the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) and falsifying records after its crew discharged oily bilge water directly into the sea, failing to use an oil-water separator, and connecting to an oil-water separator through fresh water, on the vessel…

Ecuador’s Galapagos National Park Authority recently said that Los Marinos and Oro beaches on San Cristóbal Island have been closed to the public because of contamination of seawater that exceeds the limits set by environmental regulations. The seawater was tested for excessive levels of fecal coliform bacteria, as well as other harmful chemical and organic…

Hawaiian waters in the United States have been facing a serious marine debris problem. A large amount of plastic garbage and discarded fishing gear floats on the sea surface or piles up on the beach. This trash not only affects the marine landscape, but also entangles marine organisms, causing them to be injured and die,…

January 26, 2025 – Hainan has implemented a series of marine ecological protection and restoration projects with remarkable results. Through the salt field restoration and wetland ecological restoration project, the old city village of Danzhou City has retreated from the breeding area, carried out micro-topographic transformation, restored the ancient salt field, mangrove wetland and sandy…

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…