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Jeremy Seabrook surveys a political landscape riven with virulent nostalgias which obscure an essential conflict – how to reconcile the needs of the planet with the necessities of economics?

Personal efforts are definitely worthwhile, but the scale of the problem requires action at a national and international political level, too.

Human rights at sea by Vanessa Baird.

This area is a simmering cauldron for conflict between China and its neighbours – and the US. Mark J Valencia makes sense of the situation.

For Epeli Hau’ofa, by Karlo Mila.

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.