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President Emmanuel Macron on Monday opened the UN Ocean Conference in the French riviera city of Nice with an urgent call for multilateral mobilisation to save the seas and marine … Read More

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west”, at the start in France of a global summit … Read More

As the French coastal city of Nice hosts the UN Ocean Conference, we take you to Kenya, where small-scale fishermen are struggling. Fish stocks are dwindling, and their nets often come … Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday opens a high-level summit in Nice on ocean conservation, as nations face pressure to adopt tougher stances on overfishing, pollution and marine protection. Watch … Read More

A global summit on the dire state of the oceans opened Monday in France, with demands to ban bottom trawling and expand marine protections. The UN Ocean Conference in Nice … Read More

World leaders began arriving in the French Riviera on Sunday ahead of a high-level conference on ocean conservation where nations will be called upon to adopt more stringent policies on … Read More

World leaders descend on the French Riviera on Sunday ahead of a high-level summit to tackle a deepening crisis in the oceans driven by overfishing, climate change and pollution.

Scientists and environmental activists are calling for a ban on bottom trawling, a damaging fishing practice, ahead of a high-level UN summit in France aimed at protecting the world’s oceans.

A small Kenyan NGO is on a mission to save thousands of turtles from poachers, fishermen’s nets and environmental hazards, such as rising sea levels and ever-worsening plastic waste, in … Read More

Some 50 heads of state and government gather in the French city of Nice from Sunday to confront what the United Nations has described as a global “emergency” in the … Read More