- UN website provides map and summaries of MSP processes worldwide
- Compilation of global MSP documents available
- New database maps marine litter and its impact on aquatic life globally
- UN Ocean Action Hub public discussion on ensuring sustainable marine and coastal ecosystems available
- FAO provides guidance for ecosystem approach to aquaculture site selection, zoning, and management
- Great Barrier Reef hit by severe bleaching for second year in a row, with extensive coral die-off
- Analysis of European MSP data and knowledge needs available
- European Commission releases report on blue growth strategy
- Baltic Sea project produces recommendations for MSP across borders
- European Commission launches blue growth initiative in Western Mediterranean
- Report explains legal mechanisms and processes US administration may use to change existing environmental protections
- US takes steps to expand ocean drilling in Arctic and Atlantic
- US ocean economy accounted for $352 billion in gross domestic product in 2014
- Year to date is second warmest on record
