Ocean

Mayors file legal complaint over plastic waste washed up on French coast

French MPs vote to block deep-sea mining and back international ban

France to map genes of underwater species to help protect its vast sea life

Global acts of piracy fall to 14-year low, but maritime threats remain

Franco-US satellite to deliver unprecedented look at Earth's water

UN team says Great Barrier Reef should be on heritage 'danger' list

Plastic Odyssey sets off on round-the-world mission to fight marine pollution

Bullet found lodged in skull of orca who died in France's Seine River

UN pushes for sea change to save oceans in crisis

Fears for health of killer whale lost in the river Seine

World Meteorological Organisation warns of catastrophic global climate shift

Study sounds alarm on New Zealand's sinking coastline, rising sea levels

Secrets under the ice: explorers release footage of Shackleton’s shipwreck

UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?

30 countries commit to do more to protect the ocean at One Ocean Summit in Brest

Hopes high for sea change as France opens One Ocean Summit

Pristine coral reef discovered near Tahiti, unaffected by climate change

Lagos coastal community scrambles to fight off encroaching climate change

Shrinking Mediterranean sardines the 'latest victims of global warming'

French ambassador set for talks over fishing rights row with British ministers

Experts focus on protecting carbon-eating seagrass before Marseille summit

Ghana’s plastic house: a step towards dealing with the country's pollution

Australia to challenge Unesco 'downgrade' of Great Barrier Reef

Scientists say bacteria could help solve microplastics pollution nightmare