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The race is on to patent all marine life – and some have got a head start. Marine scientist Robert Blasiak explains to Vanessa Baird what it means.

Can fishers, coastguards and marine activists see off the thieves from powerful nations plundering the seas of West Africa? Aïda Grovestins reports.

Living sea; Fewer fish in the sea than ever before; Acid sea; Sea of plastic; Blue economy; Future prospects?; Marine protection.

Sea-bed mining promises many riches, but at great risk. Should we pause for thought? asks marine biologist Diva Amon.

Without the ocean, climate change would be happening much faster.

The coming months are critical if we are going to stop the damaging free-for-all that is the current status quo and save the world’s oceans for our common future. Vanessa Baird examines the prospects.

Highlights from the 2019 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift.

The director of Rising Silence.

Ben Haana Wa Maana; The Book of Traps and Lessons.

Transit; The Chambermaid.

Fully Automated Luxury Communism; A Woman Like Her; America’s Covert War in East Africa; This Brutal House.

Aidan Harper makes the case for a new politics of time.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Wind-ups by P J Polyp.

Ecological breakdown is in the spotlight. Danny Chivers outlines five ways to seize the moment.