- Cyprus approves national MSP law
- IOC UNESCO website summarizes MSP status of countries around the world
- France launches Europe’s second floating wind turbines initiative
- Key outcomes and talking points from UN climate conference summarized (Read another high-level assessment of status and outcomes here)
- US national climate assessment provides comprehensive assessment of climate science and affirms climate change caused by human activity
- Final report of European MSP for Blue Growth conference released
- UN releases comprehensive report on global pollution, its impacts, and how to address it
- European Commission calls for proposals for blue technologies, strategies and technologies for addressing marine litter, and blue networks and the blue economy in the Mediterranean
- 2017 global ocean health assessment scores released – global ocean health remains relatively steady
And for a change of pace, check out David Attenborough’s interactive web tour of the Great Barrier Reef through space and time.