At least 43 migrants perished when their overcrowded wooden boat smashed into rocky reefs just off southern Italy at dawn Sunday, the Italian Coast Guard said. "As of now, 80 persons were recovered alive - some of whom succeeded in reaching the shore after the shipwreck - and 43 bodies were
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A last-ditch effort to save high seas treaty from sinking
When the United Nations began negotiations on a legally binding treaty to protect and regulate the high seas, one diplomat pointedly remarked: “It’s a jungle out there”—characterizing a wide-open ocean degraded by illegal and over-fishing, plastics pollution, indiscriminate sea bed mining and the destruction of marine eco-systems. Although the origins of
Rising seas appear as ‘death sentence’ for some nations: UN chief names Bangladesh, China, India in particular
The United Nations chief warned Tuesday that global sea levels have risen faster since 1900 and their relentless increase puts countries like Bangladesh, China, India and the Netherlands at risk and acutely endangers nearly 900 million people living in low-lying coastal areas.In a grim speech to the Security Council's first-ever