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Nairobi, 26 November 2014 - Governments from around the world, along with heads of national and international basin organizations and freshwater experts met this week in Nairobi to look at ways to strengthen the…

Sydney, 13 November 2014 - The world is on track to meet a 2020 target on the expansion of protected areas, but more work is needed to ensure areas of importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services are…

Mangrove establishment and rehabilitation projects have had varying levels of success at different locations around the world. Given the money that has been invested in restoring mangrove coverage, it is useful to map, monitor and compare results…

Athens, 1 October 2014 - Leading scientists and policymakers meeting in Athens this week acknowledged that marine litter remained a "tremendous challenge" in almost all regions of the world, with significant socio-…

Athens, 29 September 2014 - Mangroves are being destroyed at a rate 3 - 5 times greater than the average rates of forest loss, costing billions in economic damages and denying millions of people the ecosystem…

Athens, Greece 29 September 2014 - Plastic debris in the ocean, collapsing fish stocks, ocean acidification, and the destruction of carbon rich mangroves, are just some of the topics that will be hotly debated…

This guidance document distills best practice principles for coastal wetland carbon projects, drawing on a long history of project development and implementation in fields of wetlands restoration, terrestrial carbon projects, carbon policy and…

Nairobi, 2 September 2014 - Renowned ocean swimmer and environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Patron for Oceans, has become the first person to swim the world's seven…

Following decades of pollutants entering its waters, the Black Sea is now facing an environmental crisis of extreme proportions, and is considered one of the most environmentally degraded regional seas in the world…

Mangroves are threatened by deforestation due to urban development and coastal infrastructure, unsustainable timber extraction for fish smoking, degradation due to pollution from pesticides and fertilizers, and from hydrocarbon and gas exploitation…