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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicOcean conservation treaty

Topic: ocean conservation treaty

New UN ocean treaty signed by 67 countries, implementation still awaits

The agreement will create ocean sanctuaries where fishing will be prohibited, and also ensure human activity on the high seas is subject to environmental impact assessments.

High Seas Treaty not about putting nature in a bell jar. It’s a bid to save oceans

National governments still need to formally adopt and ratify the treaty but as conference President Rena Lee said, "the ship has reached the shore."

Countries gather to discuss new UN ocean protection treaty

According to Greenpeace, 11 million square kilometres of ocean must be protected every year if a target of protecting 30% of world's land and sea by 2030 is to be met.

On Camera

The West’s real crisis isn’t war. It is the weakness within

The West appears to many not only to be declining, but to be flailing around like ‘an ineffectual angel beating its wings in the void’.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.