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IUCN's work on climate change in the ocean has been centred around furthering understanding the science of climate change threats to the ocean: ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, marine heatwaves, as well as the cumulative affects of these individual ocean stressors and the risk this…

Back in 2011, extremely warm water temperatures persisting over thousands of kilometres along the coastline of Western Australia caused coral bleaching, mass die-out of marine life and wiped out kelp forests. Since then, this phenomenon of abnormally high-water temperatures has been recorded in…

The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas has compiled the voices of a range of global organisations and world leaders on the importance of protecting and conserving nature amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the result of a global pandemic, we are witnessing an unprecedented…

Madrid, Espagne, 7/12/2019 (UICN) - La perte d’oxygène dans les océans menace de plus en plus les espèces de poissons et perturbe les écosystèmes, comme le souligne un nouveau rapport de l’UICN.

Madrid, Spain, 07.12.2019 (IUCN) - The loss of oxygen from the world’s ocean is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, a new IUCN report…