Eco-Business

Climate change is altering the chemistry of West African waters, and local harvesters are paying the price.

Environmentalists are celebrating a Greek ban on bottom trawling and urging other nations to follow. Some scientists fear unintended consequences.

Scientists say a double whammy of climate change and El Niño lies behind a record-breaking year of extreme weather - and predict there's more to come.

Cold-blooded sea creatures seeking refuge from warming ocean waters may find themselves at increasing risk of deadly cold shocks due to changes in ocean currents, new research warns.

By Ambar Kumar Ghosh, Sayanangshu Modak

By Carolyn Cowan

By Erich Parpart

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We feel ecological grief when we lose places, species or ecosystems we value and love. These losses are a growing threat to mental health and wellbeing globally. By Anna Cooke, Claudia Benham, Julie Dean and Nathalie Butt

Building tensions between Singapore and Malaysia over its water agreement are setting the two on a collision course over scarcity and sustainability. By Tamil Salvi Mari

Keeping the planet within ‘safe’ warming limits will require dealing with other planetary boundaries being crossed. By Johan Rockström

This year at COP28, the Ocean Pavilion’s opening session stressed the need for an effective ocean strategy to limit global warming. But what do terms like ‘ocean-climate’ mean? How can investors and philanthropies contribute to action? By Naomi Clark-Shen and Kathlyn Tan

By Astra Rushton-Allan and Dr Sali Jayne Bache

By Jesse van der Grient

By Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli

By Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala

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A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.

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Do children ask the toughest questions? This World Oceans Day, we get renowned oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle, founder of Mission Blue, to field questions from curious kids on the mysteries of the deep.

Crowds descended on a beach at low tide again on Chinese New Year, despite intense media coverage of a similar occurrence in June last year.

The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.

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Exclusive Oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle speaks to Eco-Business in this exclusive podcast about the irreversible damage deep sea mining will cause, the link between the oceans and our global climate, and the role that we can all play in 'being at peace' with nature.

Oil clumps on a beach in the resort island of Bintan, Indonesia, near Singapore.

The waste oil dumped into the ocean by ships every year is equivalent to eight Exxon Valdez oil spills, and nowhere is the problem as severe as Southeast Asia. The EB Podcast talks to hotelier Andrew Dixon about how a clever idea using a ship tracking system can help curb an environmental crime that has been largely ignored.

EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In the third episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how the shipping industry is charting a course to a low-carbon future.

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