Latin America and the Caribbean today adopted regional plan containing 10 actions to promote the recovery of terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems in the next decade. The Action Plan for the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration was agreed today at the XXI...

Two major November hurricanes slammed into the same part of the Nicaraguan coast, laying waste to the Miskito village of Haulover. Faced with a future of intensifying storms, the residents must now consider whether to abandon their way of life by the ocea...

Moustapha Diagne remembers a time when kids in Guet Ndar played football on the beach behind the houses. If you brought 10 teams together, Diagne, 23, says, they would all fit comfortably on the beach. But today, it would be hard to even have a simple kic...

Scientists probing the origins of the coronavirus are wrapping up a lengthy investigation in China and have found “important clues” about a Wuhan seafood market’s role in the outbreak. Peter Daszak, a New York-based zoologist assisting the World ...

Seaweed is already known for its myriad properties such as dietary fibre, antioxidant and amino acids, but the latest discovery is that it is also an effective immune therapy to fight Covid-19. The discovery has been made by the Indian marine scientists f...

In a Statement to the 34th meeting of the UN FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI), the Center for Development and Sustainable Fisheries (CeDePesca), a Latin American NGO devoted to work together with the fishing sector, managers and researchers to improve p...

Fishermen and traders of Kasimedu in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu want the Sri Lankan government to lift the ban on karuvaadu (dry fish) imports from India. The Kasimedu fishing harbour sends around 500 tonnes of dry fish to Thoothukudi, from w...

Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has launched into action to ensure the safety of its workers who have been left stranded on an oil rig in the Andaman Sea following the military coup in Myanmar this week. Petronas, in a statement today, said it is in ...

A rescue ship with 422 migrants aboard, a small number of whom tested positive for COVID-19, was headed to a port in Sicily on Sunday. SOS Mediterranee, the humanitarian group which operates the rescue ship Ocean Viking, told The Associated Press that ...

A man has died following an incident on a fishing boat 50 miles out at sea off Newlyn, Cornwall. An investigation has started following the incident off the Isles of Scilly in which another crew member was injured, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Em...