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  • Great Barrier Reef: Australia to put in place urgent safeguarding measures requested by UNESCO

    Great Barrier Reef: Australia to put in place urgent safeguarding measures requested by UNESCO

    Paris, June, 2023 – UNESCO welcomes Australia’s decision to implement urgent new protection measures to safeguard the Great Barrier Reef recommended by UNESCO. The measures include a ban on fishing with gillnets. The Australian government formalized its commitments in a letter addressed to Audrey Azoulay, the Director General of UNESCO this week.   “The Great…

  • Scientists Urge Caution On Underwater Mining

    Scientists Urge Caution On Underwater Mining

    For years the ‘bad ones’ have poisoned rivers, devastated forests and displaced communities, and now massive companies are rushing to dig up the seabed for precious metals. MIT: “The ocean’s deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient, potato-sized rocks called “polymetallic nodules” that contain nickel and cobalt — minerals that are in high demand for the…