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Barack Obama will use his presidential powers on Thursday to create the world's largest marine reserve in the Pacific, banning fishing and other commercial activities across vast swaths of pristine sea populated by whales, dolphins and sea turtles and dotted with coral atolls.

Photo credit: Ethan Daniels, via Shutterstock. We know there's a profusion of plastic in the ocean; floating at the surface, accumulating on the seafloor, making its way into the bellies of organisms and even becoming incorporated into rocks.

Caribbean coral reefs are in danger of disappearing, depriving the world of one of its most beautiful and productive ecosystems

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EU Council announces first-ever seafood trade ban against illegal fishing nations Brussels, Belgium: Today, four leading environmental groups - Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana, The Pew Charitable Trusts and WWF have welcomed a decision by the EU Fisheries Council to place trade restrictions on Belize, Cambodia, and Guinea for failing to cooperate in fighting Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.

A project is tracking the phenomenon as global warming and overfishing boost numbers of the venomous sea creature

Sponges soak up nutrients in seawater and turn them into food for reef organisms.

Three million cubic metres of sediment from dredging to expand a coal port will be dumped in the Great Barrier Reef marine park, after the park authority approved the move on Friday. The spoil resulting from the Abbot Point port project is to be dumped 24km away at a location near Bowen in north Queensland. The expansion, which hinged on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's approval of the dumping, means an extra 70m tonnes of coal each year, worth between $1.4bn and $2.8bn, will go through the port, which is also a gateway to the world heritage-listed reef.

Arctic at risk of alien species due to new shipping routes

Found by Kayla, good info on the threats with videos.