US EditionScientists Call for Urgent Ocean Protections as Warming Seas Threaten Ecosystems
- Norway ratified the United Nations’ ocean treaty, the BBNJ Treaty, on 27 May 2025 to protect marine biodiversity beyond national borders.
- This ratification follows unanimous parliamentary consent on 26 May and formal cabinet approval, amid rising global ocean threats and a treaty entering into force after 60 ratifications.
- The treaty offers a legal framework for sustainable ocean management, enabling new marine protected areas and thorough environmental assessments in international waters.
- Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said, "This is a proud moment for Norway" reflecting broad national support from Parliament and society to strengthen ocean governance.
- Norway’s ratification positions it as a key ocean policy leader ahead of the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in June 2025, signalling stronger global cooperation to safeguard ocean ecosystems and livelihoods.
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The ocean plays a crucial role in the regulation of the climate. Yet it is threatened, and its biodiversity is poorly developed. Fishing is not for nothing. Millennium activity, it has disturbed the entire marine ecosystem. If the species did not resist too badly, the degradation of the stocks became much more evident at the end of the 20th century when the fisheries became industrial.
Scientists call for urgent ocean protections as warming seas threaten ecosystems
Rising ocean temperatures, acidification, overfishing, and pollution are driving a marine crisis that scientists warn will harm both ocean life and the billions of people who depend on it.Teresa Tomassoni reports for Inside Climate News.In short:At the One Ocean Science Congress in France, researchers and officials warned that climate change and industrial fishing practices like bottom trawling are rapidly degrading marine ecosystems.The Mediter…
States spend only 10 per cent of the money needed to achieve the goal of protecting 30 per cent of the oceans by 2030, NGOs said on Thursday in a report published a few days before the Nice Conference on Oceans.
Madrid, 6 Jun (EFEverde). – The ocean is at the limit of climate change and overfishing, according to a new international study promoted by Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), although almost half of the scientists consulted remain optimistic about its recovery if urgent and effective measures are taken. The survey, developed by GlobeScan and based on the opinion of 58 marine experts from around the world, reveals that more than 66% consider clima…
Scientists from all parts of the world agree: biodiversity in the sea is threatened, but there is hope, provided that
NZ scientists back global call to protect ocean biodiversity - FMCG Business
Ocean biodiversity is at a tipping point, but innovation and sustainable fishing offer hope, with a UN High Seas Treaty offering opportunity to scale up protection. Scientists from every inhabited continent have issued a stark warning: ocean biodiversity is in decline, and urgent action is needed. But they have also expressed optimism, with New Zealand fisheries among those leading the way with sustainable fishing practices that are driving ocea…
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