In this documentary film from the Al Jazeera English Witness series, find out why little is being done to preserve the once thriving marine life of one of the world's...

Timing questioned in release of video showing US Marines urinating on dead insurgents, Israel's siege on Gaza causes rise in child labor, Pakistan's Zardari heads to Dubai wedding amid fears...

Fish farming already produces half the world’s marketable fish. But is it environmentally friendly? Aaron Watson and Steven Rogers at Baltimore's Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology explain why plant...

The oceans play an essential role in sustaining life, but marine resources are increasingly being depleted.In a small fishing village in Tunisia, over-fishing has destroyed people’s livelihoods. Using an innovative...

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: October 22, 2010) A sophisticated and expensive British nuclear submarine is stuck on rocks off the coast of Scotland. From Haiti, confirmation that a cholera...

Marine author, journalist and advocate David Helvarg talks with Earth Focus correspondent Miles Benson about his new book, "Saved by the Sea." As founder of the ocean lobbying group, the...

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: May 20, 2010) Greeks continue to protest tax increases and cuts in pay and pensions, instituted by the Greek government to combat its massive debt...

Ke explains how the rapid pollution of the land and river around his childhood home led him to join Taiwan's environmental protection movement, and speaks of his admiration for Kuo...

"The Squid Daddy's Labor Room" is a documentary film about Taiwan residents, having lived formerly landlocked lives due to a heated political climate, returning to the ocean only to discover...

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 26, 2010) A new message attributed to Osama bin Laden has been released, vowing revenge on the U.S. if the execution of 9/11 mastermind...

50 years ago the mangrove forests on Haiti's north coast, critical to the preservation and survival of sea life, were destroyed almost completely for charcoal use. Mangroves act as a...

This Al Jazeera English news update includes the devastating floods and mudslides in Taiwan following Typhoon Morakot, China's request for the world to stay out of Myanmar's affairs following the...

(Europe) To this day, Russians remember the 2002 Kursk submarine disaster as tragedy brought about by governmental hubris; a botched job and a crude cover up that sacrificed the lives...

Andrew Sharpless, CEO of the ocean advocacy group, Oceana, speaks with Earth Focus correspondent Miles Benson. With offices around the world, Oceana works to promote economic policies and concrete change...

(August 9, 2007) While we Americans are fixated by the tragic collapse of a bridge and a mine shaft, the news goes on elsewhere. Global Pulse covered three important...