Oceans

Scientists at Spain meeting sound alarm over ocean warming

By Rosa SULLEIRO BARCELONA, April 12, 2024 (AFP) - Scientists at a United Nations conference in Spain called Friday for…

Palau becomes first nation to ratify UN high seas treaty

UNITED NATIONS, United States, Jan 24, 2024 (AFP) - The island nation of Palau made history this week when it…

Oceans are changing colour and climate change may be to blame

PARIS, July 12, 2023 (AFP) - Over the past 20 years huge swathes of the world's oceans have changed colour,…

Tiny Thai school on the climate change front line

By Lisa Martin and Pitcha Dangprasith Agence France-Presse BAN KHUN SAMUT CHIN, Thailand, June 23, 2023 (AFP) - Each morning,…

Dangerous slowing of Antarctic ocean circulation sooner than expected

PARIS, May 26, 2023 (AFP) - Climate change-driven shifts in the circulation of waters to the deepest reaches of the…

Record sea surface heat sparks fears of warming surge

PARIS, May 4, 2023 (AFP) - With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that…

Drugs from the deep: scientists explore ocean frontiers

by Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to…

Jane Fonda warns oceans are ‘dying’ amid UN treaty talks

United Nations, United States (AFP) -- Actor and activist Jane Fonda on Monday warned that humanity is "losing the ocean,"…

Coral bleaching causing ‘unnecessary’ fish fights

Paris, France (AFP) by Daniel Lawler Fish that have lost food due to mass coral bleaching are getting into more…

Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise: study

by Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will…

Oceans key to global warming fight: US climate envoy

by Marlowe Hood Agence France-Presse LISBON, Portugal (AFP) -- Safeguarding the world's oceans will be fundamental to tackling global warming,…

IAEA begins mission to review Fukushima water release

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) - An International Atomic Energy Agency taskforce began a mission Monday in Japan to review the controversial…

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