United Kingdom

In the U.K., The Pew Trusts (a registered branch of The Pew Charitable Trusts) focuses primarily on environmental policy initiatives that protect the global marine environment, from the waters of north-western Europe to the Atlantic Ocean and the pristine seas surrounding the U.K.’s overseas territories. Read More

On Sept. 21, 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) hosted an unprecedented high-level meeting with world leaders focused on the growing danger that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses to individuals worldwide. This was only the fourth time that the General Assembly addressed a global health threat, putting AMR in the company of deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola. Read More

Given that the vast majority of vessels on the water are operating legally, and that illegal fishing looks very similar to legitimate activity, authorities must be able to quickly identify boats, spot telltale patters of fishing, and access other informative data, including whether a vessel is authorized to fish in a given area. Read More

Project Eyes on the Seas, a joint initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.K.-based Satellite Applications Catapult, combines satellite monitoring of the oceans with other information, such as fishing-vessel databases and oceanographic data, to help authorities detect suspicious fishing activity far more efficiently than has been possible in the past— often in near-real time. Read More

Both the U.K. and U.S. data sets include information on registered voters; total participation; and mail ballots sent, returned, and rejected. Read More

In the U.K., The Pew Trusts (a registered branch of The Pew Charitable Trusts) focuses primarily on environmental policy initiatives that protect the global marine environment, from the waters of north-western Europe to the Atlantic Ocean and the pristine seas surrounding the U.K.’s overseas territories. Read More

On Sept. 21, 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) hosted an unprecedented high-level meeting with world leaders focused on the growing danger that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses to individuals worldwide. This was only the fourth time that the General Assembly addressed a global health threat, putting AMR in the company of deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola. Read More

Given that the vast majority of vessels on the water are operating legally, and that illegal fishing looks very similar to legitimate activity, authorities must be able to quickly identify boats, spot telltale patters of fishing, and access other informative data, including whether a vessel is authorized to fish in a given area. Read More

Both the U.K. and U.S. data sets include information on registered voters; total participation; and mail ballots sent, returned, and rejected. Read More

The availability of online voter registration is spreading in the United States, and recent data from across the pond show that it is immensely popular in the United Kingdom. Read More

Project Eyes on the Seas, a joint initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.K.-based Satellite Applications Catapult, combines satellite monitoring of the oceans with other information, such as fishing-vessel databases and oceanographic data, to help authorities detect suspicious fishing activity far more efficiently than has been possible in the past— often in near-real time. Read More

Washington—The Pew Charitable Trusts launched groundbreaking technology today that will help authorities monitor, detect, and respond to illicit fishing activity across the world’s oceans. The development of Project Eyes on the Seas, as the system is known, furthers a long-term effort by Pew to dramatically reduce illegal or “pirate” fishing. Read More

Commercial fishing around the Chagos Archipelago will end October 31st making it the largest no-take marine protected area (MPA) in the world. Read More

Today, the Pew Environment Group commended U.K. Foreign Minister David Miliband for designating the Chagos Islands, a group of 55 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, as the world's largest marine reserve. The islands and their surrounding waters cover 210,000 square miles (544,000 square kilometers), an area larger than California and more than 60 times the size of Yellowstone National... Read More

Today, the Pew Environment Group praised the United Kingdom (U.K.) for taking one further step towards designating the world's largest marine reserve. Read More

The European Union has the world’s third-largest fishing fleet and is the biggest importer of fish products. It wields considerable influence over global marine policies, a status that has often encouraged the over-exploitation of wild fish stocks. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts launched a groundbreaking technology platform that will help authorities monitor, detect, and respond to illicit fishing activity across the world’s oceans.  Project Eyes on the Seas combines satellite monitoring of the oceans with other information, such as fishing-vessel databases and oceanographic data, to help authorities detect suspicious fishing activity... Read More

In the last 3 weeks National Geographic visited the four islands and atolls in the Pitcairn Archipelago (Pitcairn, Ducie, Henderson, and Oeno). They conducted 384 individual dives, spending a total of over 450 person-hours underwater. Read More