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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.

Here we review additional biological and physical mechanisms that inject suspended and sinking particles to depth. We propose that these ‘particle injection pumps’ probably sequester as much carbon as the gravitational pump. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

During the first half of 2016, Gensler embarked on a study to

To maintain a liveable planet, governments need to protect 30% of Earth's land and sea and sustainably manage another 20%, say researchers. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

SPREP would like to call for tenders from qualified and experienced consultants who can offer their services to assist in providing software development backstopping support for the data portals and indicator state reporting tool developed under the Inform project.Click on the link below for furt

SPREP would like to call for tenders from qualified and experienced consultants to provide expert assistance in reviewing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Noumea and Waigani Conventions. Click on the link below for further details.