Spain will seek to acquire three aircraft specially equipped to fight oil spills like the Prestige disaster that soiled the northwest Spanish coastline in 2002, the Development Ministry said on Friday.
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South Africa is set to play a leading role in developing a continent-wide plan to improve the protection of coral reefs, the most complex ecosystems in the oceans.
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Marine scientists are to undertake the first systematic exploration of the Arctic Ocean beneath the polar ice cap. They will be looking for new forms of life in what the project organisers call "the planet's oldest seawater - a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice".
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The creation of one of the world's largest marine protected areas was announced this week by a consortium of Latin American nations, conservation groups, and United Nations agencies. The new reserve will span 521 million acres (211 million hectares) of ocean, from Costa Rica's Cocos Island to Ecuador's Galapagos Islands and beyond.
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Canada signed an agreement with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) today committing just over $10 million for African water and sanitation efforts.
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