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Last year, Fisheries and Oceans Canada appointed an independent National Advisory Panel of experts to consult Canadians about marine protection standards. Following extensive consultations in all regions of the country, the Panel delivered its report to the Government on September 26, 2018.

The government's report on the state of the environment estimates the economic losses associated with soil erosion and landslides is at least $250 to $300 million a year. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

To improve access to, and use of data for environment reporting, representatives from FSM, Palau, Kiribati, and Samoa attended and participated in a South-South knowledge exchange and capacity building workshop held at SPREP Headquarters from 8-12 April.

Ra’ui; it is simply the prohibition of certain activities, in certain areas to allow those areas to find balance and replenish themselves again.

The population of endangered green sea turtles that inhabit the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean is growing thanks to decades-long conservation efforts, according to scientists. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The Paris Agreement in December 2015 set targets to limit global climate change.

Despite being notoriously destructive, bottom trawling is a popular fishing method, responsible for catching around 25% of all wild-caught seafood. 

Within the next decade, the deep-sea mining industry plans to send 300-tonne vehicles to harvest tens of thousands km2 of deep seafloor for minerals considered vital to the future of green technology. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

When we speak of islands that can disappear beneath the waves, it’s almost exclusively the small, low-lying ones, which form in a couple of different ways. Some are volcanic in origin, created when an undersea volcano bursts up through the sea surface, forming a small island.

Last year, a visualization that turned data on our planet’s temperature into a gradient of colorful stripes made a splash by showing how severely the world has warmed to-date.