According to the statement of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan again discharged nuclear contaminated water into the ocean in the afternoon of December 24th, and this year plans to discharge a total of 54,600 tons of nuclear contaminated water in seven times, which is 1.7 times of the discharge in 2023, and the total amount…

According to the report, by 2024, 8.4% of the world’s marine and coastal areas have been included in documented protected areas, and since 2020, the area of new protected areas has doubled the size of Colombia’s national territory.51 countries and territories already have more than 30% of their land covered, and 31 countries and territories…

In 2024, genetic testing off the coast of Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, revealed the presence of previously undetected toxic algae. The study identified 15 species of toxic methanogens, some of which were found for the first time in Australian waters, posing a serious risk to marine ecosystems, wildlife, human health, and the global economy.

Plastic pollution continues to be one of the major global environmental problems, and rivers are the main way of connecting land-based sources of waste with the coastal and marine environment, and a large amount of plastic waste flows into the sea, including through rivers. According to the communiqué issued by the Municipality of Chaplina in…

On December 15, 2024, the Russian tankers Volga Oil 212 and Volga Oil 239 capsized in a storm in the Black Sea. The accident resulted in the death of at least one person, and a number of rescue vessels and helicopters were quickly mobilized to the scene, with the majority of the crew successfully evacuated.…

China’s marine ecological protection and restoration project was funded, Fangchenggang City 2025 marine ecological protection and restoration project was successfully selected as the central financial support project, is expected to receive central funding of 300 million yuan, the project will be around the Fangchenggang Bay estuary and other four estuaries and bays, sea areas and…

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…