Ecology

The two agreed to support preparation of priority investment projects to reduce pollution in the marine and coastal environments of the three Southern Mediterranean countries, namely Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia.

Russia has used the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for its own economic and geopolitical interests. One Russian law requires all vessels passing through the Northern Sea Route to be piloted by Russians. The heavy regulation is one among many reasons why major shipping companies often use the Suez and Panama canals—longer, but cheaper and easier, trade routes.

Scientists have for the first time used satellite data to detect a major offshore leak of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to peer-reviewed research.

The world's largest living plant has been identified in the shallow waters off the coast of Western Australia, according to scientists.

As of June 1, 2022, CMA CGM will no longer transport plastic waste on board its ships.

The 45-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating oil storage platform with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board, has been moored off the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida since 2015, without being serviced.

But the giant tankers, which can be 300 meters long or more, account for the largest share of CO2 emissions by far, a new analysis shows.

Over a three-month period, a specially equipped drone will measure the sulphur content in the exhaust plumes of ships transiting the Baltic Sea

Coral reefs in remote or protected areas can recover quickly after mass coral bleaching events, new research shows.

One research mission, dubbed Expedition 386, wants to use sediment records in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan to track and record thousands of years of past seismic activity.

The environmental organisation One Earth – One Ocean has developed a solar-electric boat Circular Explorer.

"AI technology can establish fast and direct mapping relationships in studying complex marine phenomena"