The Latest Breaking News from UNCLOS

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually,” said Donald Trump on December 10. In a dramatic operation, US forces had just taken over an oil tanker called Skipper, which was sanctioned by the US in…

Less than 1% of our country’s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restricted

Applications to mine the seabed in our ocean commons can be made from 9 July, says Guy Standing, author of The Blue Commons

Last February, the UN secretary-general informed the UN Security Council during a debate about the implications of rising sea levels on international peace and security, with mega-cities on every continent facing serious impacts.

Greece and Turkey could come to blows ahead of elections in both countries next year, say experts on both sides.

Once enacted, the Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill will bring the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea into domestic law

The last untapped area for shipping routes and exploitation is opening up and leading to new geopolitical tensions.

Deep seabed mining risks irreversible damage, monopolisation and exploitation, writes the University of Bremen's Pradeep A. Singh.