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Sri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs China

Sri Lanka’s strategic location on Indian Ocean shipping lanes has long attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India

The Independent UK

Refugee who had never seen the ocean now working in Wickham boatyard after fleeing Taliban

"All the people here are so good and I feel safe."

Newcastle Herald

'Lots of talk, little action': Hundreds protest outside U.N. Ocean Conference

Aboriginal Australian activist Theresa Ardler travelled halfway across the world to tell leaders at the U.N. Ocean Conference in Portugal that they are failing to protect her fishing community back home.

Reuters

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Woody Williams, the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions.

WEKU

Salmon farmers seek cooler waters as climate changes

To feed the world more sustainably than sheep and beef farming, aquaculture will have to find a way to thrive in a warming ocean.

Newsroom.co.nz

Smell Cell: 3D View Of Stinky One-Cell Ocean Organism

Scientists have provided fascinating insights into the structure of single-celled organisms living in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and infamous for its pungent stench.

Zenger

Period care brand pledges to recover 15,000kg of plastic from ocean

80% of plastics are likely to end up as marine litter, with period products named the 5th most common single-use plastic found in our oceans and on our beaches

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Hopes of justice for Michaela McAreavey dashed as case against man on theft charge is thrown out

EXCLUSIVE: Michaela, 27, was strangled in her room at the Legends Hotel on the Indian Ocean island on January 10, 2011.

Irish Mirror

Cruise ship smashes into iceberg in ocean disaster caught on terrified passenger's camera

A 2,000-passenger Norwegian Cruise Line ship was heading towards an Alaskan glacier but was forced to make a u-turn after heavy fog caused the ship to smash into an iceberg

Daily Mirror

Kelly Slater Takes His Pants Off (and Bares His Soul)

He won the Super Bowl of surfing at 50. So, what’s next? He’ll consult some legends—Brady, Brees, Hawk—and wrestle his demons and keep stoking that fire. Until he doesn’t.

Sports Illustrated

Editorial: California has a chance to lead the nation on cutting plastic trash. If we don’t blow it

The last few years have seen one distressing news story after another about the scourge of plastic waste: Single-use plastic packaging dumped in the ocean is killing sea animals who mistake it for food. Elephants in Sri Lanka are dying after ingesting plastic trash piled up in open-air landfills. Discarded…

Los Angeles Times

Meet 5 remarkably old animals, from a Greenland shark to a featherless, seafaring cockatoo

Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published last week brings us closer to understanding why some animal species can live for so long – far longer than humans.

The Conversation

Biden aims at China in new illegal fishing policy framework

The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat illegal fishing by China and ordering federal agencies to better coordinate amongst themselves in a bid to promote sustainable exploitation of the world’s oceans

The Independent UK

'Not worth the risk': Pacific leaders call for deep-sea mining moratorium

Concerned about the potential impacts of deep-sea mining on ocean biodiversity, the Pacific islands of Palau and Fiji on Monday launched an "alliance" to call for a moratorium of the nascent industry.

Reuters

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Sri Lanka Stops Fuel Supply to Non-essential Services as Crisis Worsens

Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage. Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at…

Al Jazeera

World faces ‘ocean emergency’, UN warns, as activists urge action

The five-day UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon is focused on restoring the health of the oceans.

Wales Online

Chilling drawings show bleak view of the future of the oceans - through children's eyes

School children were asked to draw pictures of how they imagined the world's oceans in 2070 - and the images were filled with plastic pollution and dead fish

Inverse

One weird type of exoplanet could support life outside the habitable zone

Hydrogen and helium atmospheres could keep exoplanets warm enough to be habitable, even at huge distances from their stars.

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Radio France Internationale

UN pushes for sea change to save oceans in crisis

The head of the United Nations has warned the world’s seas are in crisis as an international conference aimed at restoring the health of our oceans got underway on Monday in Portugal.

The Guardian - UK

UN head declares ‘ocean emergency’ as global leaders gather in Lisbon

António Guterres says the world must turn the tide of rising sea levels, ocean heating, acidification and plastics pollution

Daily Record

Scots woman hit by shopping trolley thrown from multi-storey car park as cops hunt reckless youths

The metal cart was pushed off a higher level of the Red Car Park at Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre in Edinburgh - striking a 30-year-old woman below.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh woman hit with shopping trolley hurled from multi-storey car park

Police are now investigating after the metal carrier was thrown from a higher level of the Red Car Park at Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre in Police by a group of youths at around 5.30pm on Saturday, June 25.

The Hindu

Stormy Ocean, Ballerina, and Enid Blyton excel

BENGALURU: Stormy Ocean, Ballerina, and Enid Blyton excelled when the horses were exercised here on

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Oceans Conference Eyes Steps toward High Seas Agreement

The United Nations is hoping that a conference starting Monday will bring fresh momentum for protracted efforts to find an international agreement on protecting the world’s oceans. The five-day UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal has drawn senior officials and scientists from more than 120 countries to the Atlantic port…

Reuters

Tuvalu minister pulls out of UN ocean conference after China blocks its Taiwanese delegates - media

The foreign minister of Tuvalu pulled out of the United Nations Ocean Conference opening in Portugal on Monday after China blocked the participation of three Taiwanese included in the tiny Pacific island nation's delegation list, according to Radio New Zealand.

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