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On Monday, June 9, as the third United Nations Ocean Conference gets underway in Nice, France, President Emmanuel Macron ...
China’s fishing vessels appeared to conduct 44% of the global fishing activity during this period, Chinese vessels accounted ...
Oceana’s Dr. Kimberly Warner explains what you need to know about the tiny plastic particles. When we think about plastic pollution in the ocean, we might picture plastic bottles and bags strewn ...
Oceana found that destructive bottom trawling is widespread in France’s most iconic marine protected areas (MPAs), despite their supposed “protected” status. In 2024, more than 100 bottom trawling ...
NEW OCEANA-COMMISSIONED RESEARCH CALLS ATTENTION TO LACK OF OWNERSHIP TRANSPARENCY AND CONCENTRATION OF CONTROL IN THE WORLD’S LARGE-SCALE FISHING (LSF) FLEET. Industrial fishing vessels account for ...
Today, Oceana released a new report that projects The Coca-Cola Company’s plastic use will exceed 9.1 billion pounds (4.1 million metric tons) per year by 2030 if the company does not change its ...
On December 2, after UN plastic treaty negotiations concluded without consensus, the Coca-Cola Company, a leading member of the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, released a statement ...
Our ocean is the lifeblood of our planet, filled with extraordinary biodiversity while also playing a pivotal role in helping us fight the climate crisis as the planet’s largest heat and carbon sink.
A new study published in the scientific journal Nature today finds that roughly 75% of industrial fishing is currently undetectable by authorities. Researchers at Global Fishing Watch used high-tech ...
Oceana analyzed data[1] from the Global Commitment 2023 Progress Report released earlier this week by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and found that the two top polluting brands, according to the ...
Oil spills poison marine life and hurt coastal communities. And they happen more often than you think. When a massive oil tanker capsized off the Philippine island of Mindoro in February 2023, ...