A global summit on the dire state of the oceans opened Monday in France, with demands to ban bottom trawling and expand marine protections. The UN Ocean Conference in Nice seeks concrete plans and funding to address what organisers call a marine “emergency.” The call for unity comes as nations clash over a plastics treaty and the US resists deep-sea mining rules.



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