Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to join worldwide demonstrations this week ahead of a U.N. climate summit in New York, as unions and some businesses lend their support for faster action to fight climate change. Organizers said Monday that ...

Hawaii’s beloved bigeye tuna will be smaller, less abundant and farther away for local fishermen to catch as the Pacific heats up with global warming, scientists project. And that could mean more expensive poke bowls and sashimi plates if the supply ...

Sir David Attenborough has agreed to become the public face of a landmark government study into biodiversity loss and its impact on the economy. The broadcaster and naturalist will act as an ambassador to promote the review around the world as the gove...

UNESCO's 2019 Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Youth Forum kicked off on Sunday in the Changbaishan Biosphere Reserve, northeast China. About 270 young people from 90 countries participated in the forum themed "Committed to Biodiversity". The five-day "2...

As women fish sellers sit on their stools in the bustling port of Elmina in Ghana, large steel basins between their legs and elegantly knotted turbans on their heads, some stare into the distance, towards a horizon that was once filled with more opportuni...

Daniel Pauly, one of the world’s leading fishery scientists, has spent decades documenting global overfishing. We profiled him Friday on The Tyee. In the last 60 years, globalization has transformed largely sustainable, small-scale local fishing ente...

Drawing attention to scientific work as labour, the need for a closer examination of the subjectivities of educated, trained government employees in charge of field data collection on marine fisheries is emphasised. Field sciences such as fisheries scienc...

Human Rights at Sea has published a baseline field report for the Koli fishing community who live and work at sea in Mumbai, India. Undertaken in the field during the monsoon season, the charity’s local researchers spent time with the fishermen, thei...

Kerala-based activist Aleyamma Vijayan may be identified as the one-stop point for women''s issues in the state, but that took decades of working on gender. For Aleyamma, 68, it all began over four decades back, when she started work on upliftment of f...

Since 2013, with World Bank funding and expertise, Bangladesh has provided improved protection to 183,900 people including 91,950 women with increased resilience to climate change. Bangladesh’s coastal zone spans over 580 km and includes territory wh...