A reef in waters off Tahiti, French Polynesia. Countries and territories including Chile, Colombia and others pledged 20 new marine protected areas on Friday.  Credit…Daniel Cole/Associated Press

More than 20 new marine protected areas in coastal waters were announced at the third U.N. ocean conference this week. Experts say thousands more are needed.

Remote coral atolls in the Caribbean. Habitat for threatened sharks and rays around a Tanzanian island in the Indian Ocean. And 900,000 square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean around French Polynesia.

These are some of the millions of acres of water now set aside as part of an international goal to protect 30 percent of the ocean by 2030. More than 20 new marine protected areas were announced at the third United Nations Ocean Conference, which ended on Friday in France.

Countries and territories pledging new areas included Chile; Colombia; French Polynesia; Portugal; Samoa; Sao Tome and Principe; the Solomon Islands; Tanzania; and Vanuatu.

“Protecting the ocean is beginning to become fashionable,” said Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist and oceanographer who served as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the 1990s, at an event celebrating a network of protected areas around the Azores.

The new designations come at a time when the United States, which sent only two observers to the conference, has moved to reopen the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. The country is also seeking to unilaterally authorize mining of the seafloor in international waters.

France, which hosted the conference with Costa Rica, pushed for a moratorium on deep sea mining, with four new countries pledging their support this week, bringing the total to 37 countries.

Less than 3 percent of the ocean is currently fully protected from “extractive” activities like commercial fishing and mining, according to the Marine Protection Atlas.

Peter Thomson, the United Nations secretary general’s special envoy for the ocean, acknowledged at the Azores event that reaching 30 percent by the 2030 deadline may not happen. But, he said, “It’s not a mythical thing that will never happen.”

In order to reach the goal, the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, also known as the High Seas Treaty, needs to be enforced with at least 60 countries ratifying it. At the conference, 19 new countries ratified the treaty, bringing the total to 50 individual countries plus the European Union. Once active, the treaty would provide a pathway toward protecting stretches of the ocean beyond individual countries’ borders.

And in coastal waters within those borders, much remains to be done. A study published in May found that the average marine protected area today is about 10 square kilometers, meaning about 188,000 more areas of that size are needed — or 85 new marine protected areas a day.

These numbers are “super daunting,” said the report’s lead author Kristin Rechberger, who is chief executive of the conservation organization Dynamic Planet. She wants countries to break through the challenge by decentralizing marine protection and allowing coastal communities to create their own small protected areas at a faster pace.

A separate report published last week found that countries need to raise $15.8 billion a year in order to protect 30 percent of the ocean. Currently about $1.2 billion a year goes toward ocean protection globally.

Questions also remain about how meaningful existing protections are.

Activists have been pushing the French government to announce a ban on bottom trawling in its marine protected areas. President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would place 4 percent of its mainland waters under “strong protection,” limiting bottom trawling, a fishing process that drags nets along the seafloor. This falls short of an existing European Union goal of placing 10 percent of its waters under “strict protection,” without commercial fishing of any kind.

“Allowing destructive bottom trawling in most of France’s so-called ‘protected’ areas makes a mockery of ocean protection,” said Alexandra Cousteau, senior adviser to Oceana and granddaughter of the ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, in a written statement. “It’s like building a fence around a forest and then bulldozing it anyway.”

Even where protections from commercial fishing exist around the world, enforcement is often lacking.

Zafer Kizilkaya, president of the Mediterranean Conservation Society, has worked with local fishing communities to create and patrol a marine protected area at Gokova Bay in Turkey, allowing endangered monk seals to return. Community members — including former fishers — serve as marine rangers, reporting illegal commercial fishing to the Turkish Coast Guard, which follows up with fines.

Mr. Kizilkaya is not seeking greater percentages of protected marine areas at this point, but rather “serious enforcement and management,” he said. “That will make a huge difference.”

The United States did not send an official delegation to the conference. Two representatives from the the administration’s Environmental Advisory Task Force, including Ed Russo, the chairman, attended as what the State Department called “government observers.”

The day before the conference began, Mr. Russo wrote an opinion piece in Time magazine with Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce and owner of Time, outlining ideas for a “focused, global effort to restore coral reefs.”

“We believe that addressing coral-reef health is a smart place to focus — not because it is the only crisis,” they wrote, “but because it offers a clear, actionable, achievable goal that can unite governments and ocean advocates.”

Mr. Russo and Mr. Benioff did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Russo is chief executive of RussKap Water, president of the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition and a board member of Reef Relief.

Mr. Benioff, who during the first Trump administration raised Republican support for an initiative to plant a trillion trees, has funded a center for marine conservation called the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Salesforce was a major sponsor of the U.N. ocean conference’s publicly accessible exhibits.

John Kerry, the former special presidential envoy for climate under President Biden, said he didn’t know what role the United States would play in ocean protection now.

“We have an amazing conglomeration of countries that have come together to improve the marine protected areas,” Mr. Kerry said. The announcements this week, however, are “just building blocks,” he said. “We are not moving fast enough or at scale.”

Note: Along with heads of state, delegates, NGOs, and journalists, Fellows with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network attended the conference.

Daphné Anglès contributed reporting.

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New update from Project Save the World

Episode 621 Oceans and Spray: Climate Researchers Discuss Marine Cloud Brightening

Some of the most provocative discussions of climate that Project has hosted revolved around marine cloud brightening (MCB), a scientific innovation that reflects sunlight to cool the Earth.

Marine Cloud Brightening has sparked a wave of research and debate. In this fascinating discussion, three experts—Jessica Wan, Patricia Quinn, and Robert Tulip—explored both the potential and the risks of this geoengineering approach. (Excuse the expression! Some scientists try not to mention the word “geoengineering” because so many people react viscerally against it and end the conversation abruptly. But I assume that my readers are all open-minded, aren’t you? And some of you are climate scientists yourselves.)

What is Marine Cloud Brightening?

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At its core, marine cloud brightening is a proposed climate intervention that involves spraying seawater particles into the atmosphere to brighten clouds and increase their reflectivity. The idea is simple: white clouds reflect sunlight back into space, potentially cooling the planet and helping to mitigate global warming.

Jessica Wan, Patricia Quinn, and Robert Tulip

Jessica Wan, a PhD student studying marine cloud brightening, explained her work on modeling its effects in the Pacific Ocean. Through computer simulations, Jessica has modeled the regional impacts of MCB over areas such as California and the Aleutian Islands, showing that while it might offer short-term cooling effects, it could have unintended consequences in the long run—especially as the climate continues to warm.

The Challenges and Implications

Patricia Quinn, a senior researcher at NOAA, provided valuable insights into the complexities of atmospheric particulates and aerosols. She reminded us that while sulfates naturally occur in the atmosphere—emitted from phytoplankton and even from industrial sources like coal plants—the reduction of these particles apparently unintentionally contribute to global warming. This paradox, where efforts to clean up pollution might inadvertently exacerbate climate change, complicates the decision-making around geoengineering solutions like MCB.

One of the key insights from the conversation was the issue of teleconnections—the phenomenon where local interventions (like marine cloud brightening over the Pacific) can have far-reaching effects on other regions of the world. Jessica’s research revealed that cooling the ocean in one part of the world can influence temperatures on land far away, from North America to Europe. This is a reminder that climate is a global system, and any intervention must be studied and implemented with careful consideration of its global implications.

A Heated Debate: To Act or Not to Act?

The discussion also highlighted the deep divisions within the scientific community regarding the viability and ethical considerations of geoengineering. Robert Tulip, a climate repair advocate, underscored the urgency of finding solutions to slow down climate change, but raised critical governance concerns. If marine cloud brightening is ever to be deployed at scale, it will require global cooperation and oversight. The question remains: who gets to decide when and where these interventions happen? And what are the risks of unintended consequences?

Jessica’s findings suggest that MCB, while promising in certain contexts, might not be as effective in a warming world. By 2050, the same intervention might no longer deliver the cooling effects it promises today. This raises important questions about the role of geoengineering in climate strategy. Should we rush to experiment with MCB, or should we focus on understanding its risks in more detail before any real-world application?

Looking Forward: The Future of Marine Cloud Brightening

As the conversation drew to a close, there was a consensus that more research is needed. While the technology to implement marine cloud brightening at a large scale is now in its infancy, the discussion highlighted the urgency of continuing, and even expanding, such  experimentation. Patricia and Jessica agreed that small-scale studies are crucial in advancing our understanding of MCB’s potential benefits and risks.

The panelists mentioned two recent experiments. One is an ongoing, long-term application of MCB  to cool the waters and save the corals forming the Great Barrier Reef outside Australia. The local people, including indigenous groups, strongly support the measure.

On the other hand, there was a brief recent test in the San Francisco Bay, which spooked the local townspeople of Alameda into prohibiting it, though there would have been no possible harm in spraying a little more sea water into the air short period. As Robert pointed out, global cooperation and governance will be required to ensure that all geoengineering experiments are conducted responsibly.

The debate over MCB is just one part of the larger conversation about climate solutions. But it is an important one. The fact that small-scale interventions could have large-scale impacts underscores the complexity of managing climate change in a way that benefits everyone. It also reminds us that as we seek to mitigate climate risks, we must remain vigilant, recognizing the interconnectedness of our planet’s systems as well as the rapid approach of probable catastrophic climate change.

Conclusion: A Critical Moment in Climate Research

This conversation is an important contribution to the ongoing discourse on geoengineering and climate intervention. While marine cloud brightening offers exciting possibilities, its implementation is far from straightforward. The global implications of any climate intervention, particularly those that are based on geoengineering, should ordinarily proceed through prolonged phases of deep research. The question is: should scientists slow down and approach research cautiously, or is the global climate warming so fast that some interventions should be deployed as rapidly as possible, though if harmful effects arise, it may be necessary to stop suddenly?

For now, the debate continues. This conversation is far from over, and it will be critical to shaping the future of our planet.

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As you know we have created over 6,000 shows for our www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast and www.goodnewsplanet.TV and www.pausetheworldforpeace.org.

Here are some Good News Stories that we are very proud of that we posted this week, in fact, we are proud of every story that we ever did on Good News. 1. Red Cross and their work with the military, spokesperson from Marine Corps and the Red Cross. 2. Mickey Stevenson, MOTOWN’S A & R Man, great history of Soul Music. 3. Sight – A Movie Premiere of a Good Samaritan.

May is Military Appreciation Month

HOW THE

AMERICAN RED CROSS IS

RECOGNIZING & HELPING OUR

COUNTRY’S MILITARY

MOTOWN’S FIRST A&R MAN,

MICKEY STEVENSON’S BOOK

&

HIS SING IT FROM THE HEART

A New Musical By Mickey

Sight,

is a great important movie,

don’t miss it.

Good News Corporation, a 501 C 3 nonprofit was so fortunate to have the Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine joining our Earth Day efforts in Times Square on April 22.  Thank you Mark.

Along with Mark Mayor Adams and Pastor Monrose share a Iroquois Prayer, and Times Square Alliance and New York City Parks all helped to make this year’s event historic. 

Here is the link to see a few versions of the 5.5-hour Earth Day Broadcast.  A 41 Minute version and then the 5.5 hour, 2 hour and our sizzle reel and press release.  Go to: https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2024/05/15/earth-day-manhattan-goes-green-in-times-square-4-22-24-a-major-5-5-hour-live-worldwide-success-the-international-day-of-peace-ecology-broadcast-times-square-next-9-21-22-12-noon-world-moment-of/

We now focus our efforts, and we need YOU and everyone you know to:

PAUSE THE WORLD FOR PEACE AT NOON ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2024.  WE HOPE TO HAVE 8 BILLION PEOPLE JOIN IN, ALL THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS WOULDN’T HURT.  WE ARE ONE. 

193 UN COUNTRIES ALREAD AGREED.  PEACE MESSENGER RINGO STARR WILL VIRTUALLY REQUEST IT FROM TIMES SQUARE AT NOON AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A MAJOR PEACE DAY PARTY WORLDWIDE BROADCAST FOCUSING ON THE GOOD HAPPENING IN THE WORLD FOR PEACE AND MOTHER EARTH. 

22 YEARS GOOD NEWS CORPORATION (and 75 years on June 9th for Paul) HAS BEEN FOCUSED & DEDICATED TO PEACE, DIGNITY AND EQUALITY ON A HEALTHY PLANET WITH OUR EVENTS…WE CONTINUE TO STRIVE FOR TOTAL LOVE, AND MORE LOVE, AS THAT IS THE ANSWER.

Once again, as a reminder of what we went through, -we are honored to share another video of Tom Foolery that we believe in and feel helps with the recovery of our Covid Times.  Please pass this along as well as there is much wisdom in it, the title is, “The Great Realization” http://goodnewsplanet.com/tom-foolery-the-great-realization/

Enjoy every moment and share with all.  All these videos are on www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast  and our movie Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE to be released this year.  www.woodstockforever.com.

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The Red Cross is committed to helping members of the military, veterans, their families and caregivers prepare for, manage and respond to the challenges of service.

The Red Cross provides in-person support for troops around the world including:

On all military installations in the U.S.
At 37 overseas offices, including those in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Poland and Romania.
At over 140 military medical facilities and 170 veterans care facilities worldwide.

Each year, the Red Cross provides around 510,000 services to members of the military, veterans and their families around the world. None of these services would be possible without a global network of dedicated volunteers who turn their military appreciation into action. The Red Cross encourages people interested in volunteering to sign up at redcross.org/volunteer or reach out to their local Red Cross chapter for opportunities to get started today.

Through their ‘Get To Know Us Before You Need Us’ program, the Red Cross meets with new enlistees and their families to answer questions about military family life and share how their services can help before, during and after deployment.

In times of emergency, the organization helps military families communicate with their loved ones and facilitate their return home through their Hero Care Network, which is available online, by phone, through the Red Cross mobile app or in person, 24 hours a day.

The nonprofit also offers a variety of free resiliency workshops in-person and online, to provide military members, veterans, their families and caregivers with effective tools for facing challenges and stress.

Red Cross medical and non-medical volunteers provide care, comfort and therapy items at veteran hospitals and military treatment facilities around the world.

American Red Cross Spokesman and Marine Corps Veteran Gerald Thomas will discuss how the organization supports and honors members of the military, veterans and their families during Military Appreciation Month.

Interview is courtesy: American Red Cross

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Mr. Ge Yuhua, California Sales Director of MXQ Life Water and California Media Director of Huayu China, the sponsor of this year’s Christmas Parade and Family Movie Awards, was on hand on behalf of Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu to bring you a wonderful live video!

Mr. Ge Yuhua

90th Annual Christmas Parade Press Conference

The 90-year-old Hollywood Christmas Parade has a long history and reputation as one of the most influential parade events in the country, held on the last Sunday of November every year with hundreds of thousands of spectators. This year’s Hollywood Christmas Parade, in conjunction with the Family Movie Awards, will be broadcast internationally during the holiday season by the American Forces Network, a mainstream media outlet in the United States, and will air on The CW Network in primetime television on December 16 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
In an exclusive interview with Pacific Business, renowned director David Mackenzie, producer of the Hollywood Christmas Parade and the Family Movie Awards, said that this year’s Family Movie Awards have been taped and will be broadcast worldwide on the youth-friendly The CW Network and PopStar! He revealed that in recognition of the outstanding contributions to the awards by Family Movie Awards Lifetime Chairman Dr. Xiaoqiu Ma, the cities of California and Los Angeles, the Toys for Tots Foundation and the U.S. Marine Corps, and the entire parade will present a special plaque to Dr. Ma and MXQ LifeWater.

Interview with David McKenzie, Executive Producer of the Hollywood Christmas Parade

On Saturday, November 26th at 10am Beijing time, Dr. Xiaoqiu Ma will be joined by the Hollywood Christmas Parade production team, including Family Movie Awards star producers David Mckenzie, John Martta, Jeffrey Bogert, and Huayu China’s President Dr. Jin Sheng Di ( Dr Jeannie Yi, President of Huayu China, will be interviewed live on video by Ms. Gao Fengfang, host of VTV USA, to kick off the Christmas Thanksgiving season. For more information, please visit the Family Movie Awards Chinese website: 2022ffa.com

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Weiwei Talks about the

Christmas Parade, This is One

of China’s Most Popular Shows

and Beloved Hosts

HISTORY OF MILESTONE BROADCAST CORPORATION:  For those who don’t know, our company, Milestone Broadcast Corporation, MBC, was established in 1985, by Paul Sladkus, after working for 14 years with CBS and PBS/Channel 13 TV working on over 150 Award Winning shows & series, i.e., All in the Family, Sonny & Cher, Carol Burnett, Love of Life, AFI Salutes James Cagney & Orson Wells and Frank Sinatra Performed and on PBS the Nature and Brain Series. When Paul became Director of Marketing at the PBS WNYC station he was asked by the leading Chinese Media to represent them for advertising and marketing… he agreed, as he was brought up with Ethnic Media…either Hungarian, Yiddish or Jewish… he was always a believer in ONE WORLD and the WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER MIND SET AND THE BEAUTY OF COUNTRY CULTURE AND TRADITIONS. Paul realized if he could help multicultural communities it would be good, hopefully create more PEACE & UNDERSTANDING USING MEDIA WORLD WIDE WHICH WAS HIS MISSION, so, as mentioned in 1985 he started PSI a Full Service Multicultural Marketing, Advertising, Media Representative, PR, Events and Production Organization with clients like, i.e., Citibank, Delta Airlines, IBM, Sprint, US Postal Service, Western Union…and many advertising agencies. The PSI Research with St. John’s University became The Bible on how to market to the Asian American Community, we were told. MBC loved working with over 200 multicultural communities and we are VERY good at it, if you know anyone who needs help!!!! Our MBC websites with over 6,000 shows are  www.goodnewsplanet.TV or www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast. Many of our shows are in different languages.Note: in 2002 we created our Nonprofit Good News Corporation for our Humanitarian Efforts, especially those for Peace, the Environment and Water.Lastly, Giving Tuesday was this week, so if you have any money left, please help us un-stress to raise funds for our Good News Corporation, nonprofit, events in 2023 go to:

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ONCE AGAIN, WE NEED PRODUCTION VOLUNTEERS, ASAP. WE ALSO NEED FUNDING/SPONSOR NEW BUSINESS CONSULTANTS, ASAP. Here is our link to our 2022 Sizzle Reel, https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/772457663 please take 14 minutes to watch it, pass it along and be INSPIRED, it wasn’t easy editing down a 5 Hour LIVE BROADCAST.  you can also go to www.pausetheworldforpeace.org to watch it and the whole 5 Hour Broadcast that we are also editing and soon will post the final version. All money raised will be used for the following 2023 Events:1.      Times Square, NY 2023 Venue 10,000 During the eventA.   World Water Day March 22 Press Conference and Concert– 3 Hour LIVE BroadcastB.   Earth & Water Day Concert April 22 – 5 Hour LIVE BroadcastC.    911 Press Conference and Concert – 3 Hour LIVE BroadcastD.    International Day of Peace Worldwide Concert September 21, 2023 – 5 Hour LIVE Broadcast, including the 12 noon Moment/Minute of Silence Worldwide, Cease Fire, Acts of Peace/Kindness. Sizzle Reel: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/7724576632.    Central Park, Great Lawn NY, Venue 18,000 create Human Peace SignA.   9/11/23 – 4 Hour Celebrity Concert, including the 7pm (Covid Heroes & 9/11 Heroes Ringing Bell Time) Moment/Minute of Silence Worldwide, Cease Fire, Acts of Peace/Kindness3.    Centennial Memorial Hall at the Salvation Army, 14^th Street off of 6^th Ave., www.thecmt.org, Venue 1,500 SeatingA.   International Day of Peace Celebrity Concert Indoors – 3 Hour LIVE Broadcast, including the 7pm (Covid Heroes Ringing Bell Time) Moment/Minute of Silence Worldwide, Cease Fire, Acts of Peace/Kindness2023 Plans: Milestone Broadcast Corporation, est. 1985. We use our media to share, Life Affirming, Thought Provoking Good News, Entertainment, Events and Products each week. We are honored to share the GOOD in the world, as the people of the world are GOOD and the majority LIVE IN PEACE, let’s support them and use MEDIA FOR THE GOOD.  Go to:  www.goodnewsplanet.TV and or www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast where we have over 6,000 shows.Lastly, HAPPY AND HEALTHY HOLIDAY SEASON…. WE ARE BLESSED

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FRIDAY, OCT 14
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Pier 84

Hudson River Park’s River Project is committed to advancing public awareness and understanding of our local waterways. The SUBMERGE festival — offering two days of learning and excitement in the Park — aims to inspire audiences of all ages and make marine science and STEM accessible and engaging for everyone.

Registration is required for some activities; please check back to learn about individual program information as we get closer to the Festival date.

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This Saturday, 25th April, join us at 9am PDT (12pm EDT/5pm BST) for the Beatles’ celebration of love, music, and surfacing from strange seas into a beautiful world free of the Blue Meanies!

Dress-up as your favourite character from the film and escape with us to a place where, for a little while, nothing is real.

Click the bell to set a reminder on this Watch Page.

Share your photos and videos with us of you singing along in your costumes at home and tag them #YellowSubLive. Following the film, we’ll be sharing your images and videos on Instagram Stories in our Yellow Submarine Sing-A-Long After-Party.

For more info about the event visit: yellowsubmarine.com

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Not many young people know who Audie Murphy was or how big a war hero he was. Two or three of the medals he earned would make most service men proud, but to have earned his decorations in battle is truly unbelievable.

Isn’t it sad the media can tell us all about the BAD that goes on, but ignores the GOOD people. If a movie star or politician stubs their toe, we have to hear about it for days!!!

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