Join with the Ministry of Environment, National Beautification, Green and Blue Economy for a month of activities celebrating Environment Month 2023 all June long.

Last year, sea urchins in the Caribbean started getting sick — shedding their spines, dying off and throwing reef ecosystems into chaos. Now, scientists think they’ve caught the killer in this marine murder mystery. A tiny single-celled parasite is to blame for the massive die-off, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Full article…

Almost two-thirds of the world’s ocean lies outside national boundaries. These are the “high seas”, where fragmented and loosely enforced rules have meant a vast portion of the planet, hundreds of miles from land, is often essentially lawless. The pressure is building around critical negotiations that could, if successful, shield swathes of the world’s ocean.…