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An agreement reached Saturday night on the wording of a historic United Nations treaty to protect marine biodiversity could mark the end of the unregulated exploitation of the ocean, an increasingly urgent concern as climate impacts multiply.

A legally binding pact to conserve the sustainable use of global ocean biodiversity has finally been agreed to after protracted United Nations-led negotiations.

Japanese authorities are preparing to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, nearly 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This will relieve pressure on more than 1,000 storage tanks, creating much-needed space for other vital remediation works. But the plan has attracted controversy.

The European Space Agency’s Juice mission launches next month, flying closer to icy moons – including Ganymede, the solar system’s largest – than ever before

UN member states finally agreed Saturday to a text on the first international treaty after years of negotiations to protect the high seas, a fragile and vital treasure that covers nearly half the planet.

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For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas.

Until now, only about one per cent of the high seas have been protected.