Germany has formally joined a landmark United Nations agreement aimed at protecting the high seas, with Environment Minister ...

Today, governments at the United Nations General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution that green-lights development of a New Marine Biodiversity Treaty for the High Seas and beyond. This decision ...

NEW YORK CITY, United States (4 March 2023) – WWF strongly welcomes the agreement of the text for a new global legally binding High Seas Treaty reached by nations today in New York, creating a ...

A man walks on a sea wall as waves spray water on Kalk Bay in Cape Town – Copyright AFP GIANLUIGI GUERCIA Dozens of nations on Wednesday began signing a first-ever ...

"The high seas cover two thirds of the global ocean. That's almost half the planet," Nathalie Rey, Senior Strategy Advisor at the High Seas Alliance, tells Euronews Earth. But until January this year, ...

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The treaty establishes the first legal framework for creating marine protected areas in international waters, which cover nearly two-thirds of the world's oceans The UK has formally ratified the ...

Activists from Greenpeace display a banner outside the United Nations headquarters during negotiations on a treaty to protect the high seas in New York on February 27 ...

Roughly 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) south of Java, a stretch of Indian Ocean high seas that had never appeared on any global or Australian seabed map now has a name, a depth profile, and a ...