Australia has joined 96 other nations at the United Nations Ocean Conference in France to push for a global treaty to end ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned of peril as the world's oceans face "predatory" mining, masses of plastic waste and ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans "become the wild ...

"The deep sea cannot become the Wild West," UN Secretary General António ... are concerned about the harm that could be caused. "The ocean is not for sale. We're talking about a common shared ...

World leaders on Monday called for strict rules to govern deep-sea mining and warned against racing to exploit the ocean ...

The treaty seeks to protect large parts of the world's oceans, which remain ungoverned and vulnerable to over-fishing, climate change and deep-sea mining ...

Australia is set to back a major new ocean protection treaty to limit industrial-scale fishing and protect international ...

NICE, France - Countries must respect science and international law when it comes to seabed exploitation, which must not ...

For more than 30 years, the Pacific Rim Whale Festival has celebrated the arrival of migrating grey whales to Canada’s wild ...

Nations tussle over contentious rules on mining the seabed for critical minerals. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...