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17 best Maldives resorts for an island getaway in 2025
Gourmet Traveller
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June 18, 2025
With shimmering white sands, beautiful blue oceans, reefs and swaying palms, the Maldives is one of those dream destinations that truly lives up to expectations. The same goes for places to stay – there are Maldives resorts to suit just about...
China Downplayed Nuclear-Capable Missile Test; Tried To Hoodwink The World By Calling It ‘Routine’; Classified NZ Govt Papers
The Eurasian Times
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June 18, 2025
Beijing sent shivers through the South Pacific in September 2024, when its elite Rocket Force fired a dummy warhead into the high seas near French Polynesia. A tranche of classified government briefing notes obtained by AFP shows deep concern...
I should be in Fiji this week, but I’m too afraid to go
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 16, 2025
I should be in Fiji this week, soaking up some beautiful island magic. Instead, I’m in draughty Sydney. All because I’m afraid of a tiny insect: the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Fijian heaven can wait while there is a dengue fever outbreak. Credit:...
Real-world Coral Studies Spark Future in Ocean Conservation
Noozhawk - California
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June 15, 2025
Hayden Vega, a marine science major from Long Beach, is graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a deep commitment to ocean conservation and community-centered research. For Vega, a lifelong fascination with fish became the foundation for a broader...
Progress and frustration mark the UN’s third Ocean Conference
Grist Magazine
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June 16, 2025
Delegates from around the world convened in Nice, France, last week to discuss a range of ocean priorities, including the implementation of a recently finalized “high seas treaty” to protect the two-thirds of the oceans that lie outside countries’...
United Nations Ocean Conference: Indigenous peoples and local communities dialogue in the framework of the Ocean Decade
Pacific Community (SPC)
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During the United Nations Ocean Conference 2025, various traditional knowledge experts and representatives from Indigenous communities gathered for a workshop to shape key objectives for the second half of the United Nations Decade of Ocean...
Guillain–Barré Syndrome During the Outbreak of Omicron in Southern China: A Multicenter Case-Control Study
Dove Medical Press
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May 21, 2025
Introduction Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although SARS-CoV-2 primarily involves in the respiratory system, increasing evidence suggests that its pathology may...
Real-world coral studies spark future in ocean conservation
UC Santa Barbara
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June 12, 2025
Throughout his studies, Vega came to view marine conservation as inherently connected to human well-being. “My obsession with fish drew me to marine science, but I’ve learned that when it comes to conservation, life above the water is just as...
What Was Achieved at the UN Ocean Conference in France?
Earth.Org
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June 16, 2025
From pledges to establish Marine Protected Areas to calls for a Global Plastic Treaty and to end deep-sea mining, Earth.Org recaps the key achievements at last week’s UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France. — Some 15,000 people, including...
Auckland City FC: 'We are the working-class team at the FIFA Club World Cup'
The Athletic
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June 15, 2025
Angus Kilkolly lives life to a steady rhythm. Auckland City’s centre-forward is a hard-working, instinctive goalscorer, but also a regional manager for a tool company. When he speaks to The Athletic, dawn is breaking in New Zealand through the...
Opinion: NZ has a vast sea territory but lags behind other nations in protecting the ocean
The New Zealand Herald
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June 15, 2025
We all attended last week’s meeting, together with more than 2000 marine scientists from 120 countries. Here, we reflect on New Zealand’s role and obligations to contribute to these global goals. Legal imperatives Globally, the ocean is warming...
Should you boycott the US? The 20 biggest questions in travel right now
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 15, 2025
Hauf says the best practice is for carbon emissions to be removed or reduced where they are generated, if possible. If we must fly, “carbon removal through carbon-offset projects is a crucial part of the global emissions reduction journey, not...
Is the ocean ‘having a moment’? This was the UN summit where the world woke up to the decline of the seas
The Guardian
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June 14, 2025
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope … and we are all in the same boat.” So said Jacques Cousteau, the French explorer, oceanographer and pioneering film-maker, who notably pivoted from merely sharing his underwater world to sounding the...
The US’ scientific brain drain
RFI
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June 14, 2025
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the “Choose Europe for Science” summit. You’ll hear about the Pariwer Bandhu RFI SW Club’s quiz competition, and there’s the Listener’s Corner” with your bonus question...
This massive water park opening near Ottawa is like a mini Disney and here's what to know
Narcity
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June 14, 2025
If you're looking for a taste of that Disney World experience closer to home, this upcoming Canadian water park might just be your wish come true. With a variety of attractions, themed experiences and resort-style amenities, the park offers...
UN Ocean Conference puts ‘wind in the sails’ of ocean action
WWF International
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Posted on June, 13 2025 As the third UN Ocean Conference draws to a close, WWF is encouraged by the commitments made in a number of areas, but warns that the measure of success will be in delivery NICE, France (13 June 2025): The third UN Ocean...
France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on
The Conversation
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June 12, 2025
In recent months, the viability of France’s nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French “nuclear umbrella” that might shield its allies on the European continent. In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, and Russian President...
World on verge of ratifying key treaty to protect oceans
The Irish Times
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The world is on the verge of ratifying a historic high seas treaty following progress made at the UN Oceans Conference that concluded in Nice, France, on Friday. Fifty countries, including the EU, have now agreed to ratify the treaty, and 10...
Deep-sea geoengineering set for scrutiny, as ocean treaty approval nears
Climate Home News
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June 12, 2025
A new treaty to protect oceans, now close to taking effect, would make it harder to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere through controversial geoengineering techniques like sinking seaweed and iron filings into the sea or storing carbon...
Want to Be a Cruise Ship Doctor? Inside the Role and Rewards
Medscape
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David Concha, MD, director of telemedicine and training at Offshore Medical Logistics, headquartered in the US state of Louisiana, is responsible for medical services on the Ocean Victory cruise ship. The vessel is operated by Alma Cruceros, a...