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First discovery in 120 years: a new coral reef in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Ecology
Also, researchers have successfully mapped the entire SwainSlide underwater landslide.

IMO Environment Committee approves amendments to cut ship emissions

Safety & Regulations
Draft amendments to the MARPOL convention would require ships to combine a technical and an operational approach to reduce their carbon intensity.

U.S. coral reefs’ health assessed for the first time on a national scale

Ecology
Condition status score is ‘fair,’ but reefs are vulnerable and declining

The plastic rivers of Asia play a key part in the fight against plastic in the ocean

Ecology
Near half of the global plastic leakage from land to sea comes from a few countries in Southeast Asia.

Equinor sets ambition to reach net-zero emissions by 2050

Ecology
The ambition includes emissions from production and final consumption of energy.

Research: Leaving more big fish in the sea reduces CO2 emissions

Ecology
An international team of scientists has found leaving more big fish in the sea reduces the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the Earth's atmosphere.

Startup ReefSystems installs artificial reef in IJmuiden

Ports
With these reefs ReefSystems creates habitats, a natural habitat, to stimulate the growth of local marine life.

The Ocean Cleanup introduces first product made with ocean plastic pollution

Ecology
Sunglasses made from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with 100% of the proceeds funding the continuation of the cleanup

Port of Riga: new tanks for processing of polluted water have been put into operation

Ports
Every year, about 11 thousand tons of municipal solid waste, about 50 thousand tons of municipal wastewater and 15-20 thousand tons of water polluted with oil products are collected from ships entering the port of Riga.

EU awards funding to Kapellskär-Naantali Maritime Bridge environmental initiative

Ports
The project will start during November 2020 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023.

Tilting oil tanker threatens ‘environmental catastrophe’

Ecology
Venezuela's opposition warned of a potential "environmental catastrophe" Thursday as a damaged oil tanker threatened to spill 1.3 million barrels of crude into waters separating Venezuela from Trinidad and Tobago.

Researchers find diverse communities comprise bacterial mats threatening coral reefs

Ecology
Cyanobacterial mats have posed a huge problem for coral reef health. Previously, the bacteria covered about 1% of reefs, but that has grown to 20 to 30% in some places.
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