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  • A bronze whaler shark swims through a giant ball of sardines off the east coast of South Africa.

    Five amazing ocean sites to make the first protected high seas areas

    From the Sargasso Sea to the Costa Rica thermal dome, scientists are identifying key diversity hotspots to safeguard under a new UN treaty
  • Michael Lodge, secretary-general  of the International Seabed Authority at a 2022 assembly.

    Row erupts over deep-sea mining as world races to finalise vital regulations

    Head of seabed authority accused of abandoning neutrality at critical point with first commercial application imminent
  • Brest, where this years One Ocean Summit will be held.

    World leaders descend on France for ocean summit as Macron puts spotlight on seas

    As One Ocean event in Brest aims to deliver ‘blue diplomacy’ in areas from pollution to overfishing, activists warn against ‘bluewashing’
  • Bitcoinsea-illo-AW-landscape

    The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship – podcast

    Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out
  • Bitcoinsea-illo-AW-landscape

    The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship

    The long read: Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out
  • A view of the channel dug into the reef at Malolo island by Freesoul.

    Why is cocaine washing up on the beaches of Fiji?

    Kate Lyons on the multibillion-dollar drug route in the Pacific. Plus: John Harris on Facebook’s cryptocurrency
  • Crew member of Police boat Veiqaravi, watches a pleasure craft motor past in Nadi Bay

    The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region

    Jose Sousa-Santos
  • Pacific drug smuggling map

    The drug route you've never heard of: a map of Pacific drug busts

  • Cocaine base paste and coca leaves at a clandestine farm next to the Inirida River in Colombia

    Where it all begins: Colombia's peasant farmers and the Pacific drug trade

  • The seizure of what is suspected to be hundreds of kilograms of cocaine in the Solomon Islands in 2017

    Pacific nations are 'victims' of Australian and New Zealand appetite for drugs, experts say

  • Lisa, a sex worker and drug user, on the Martintar strip in Nadi.

    'I've seen terrible, terrible violence': cocaine and meth fuel crime and chaos in Fiji

  • Bodaluna Island, near Budi Budi, Papua New Guinea

    Bust in Budi Budi: the day a fisherman hauled in $50m worth of cocaine

  • Fiji police commissioner Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho next to the police patrol boat Veiqaravi

    Cocaine used as washing powder: police struggle with Pacific drug influx

  • A crew member of the Police boat Veiqaravi keeping watch as they begin their entry procedures into Port Denarau

    The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom

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