The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Making good on a promise, the Interior Department announced Friday that it had scheduled its first sale of offshore oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster last year. But it is changing some of the rules to ensure that leased parcels are actually drilled and …
Western Australian Environment Minister Bill Marmion said Friday that he has imposed 24 "tough" conditions on Chevron Corp.'s (CVX) proposed Wheatstone liquefied natural gas export project. Marmion said in a statement that assessing Wheatstone has been "complex," and he will consult with other Ministers to "obtain final agreement on the …
Britain's worst oil spill for over a decade appeared to be entering its final stages, as the leak from Royal Dutch Shell's faulty North Sea pipeline slowed to a trickle. "The rate of leakage from the flowline to the Gannet platform continues to decline and currently stands at less than …
The Goa government’s reluctance to scrap a controversial shipyard project has left the 200-odd families of Chicalim village distraught. In 2005, Bharti Shipyard Limited proposed to construct a Rs 250-crore shipyard on about 0.8 hectare of mudflats in the ecologically fragile Chicalim Bay in Mormugao taluka. The Goa Coastal Zone …
The team of divers deployed to check the wreckage and assess the amount of oil spillage happening from the tanks of sunk ship MV Rak Carrier began their operation on Thursday by identifying wreckages and marking them using three markers. The divers could not get to the seabed where the …
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has written to the Union environment ministry as well as the shipping ministry about the need for India to become a signatory to two international conventions that fix liability for marine pollution and oil spills. TOI had written about the need to sign the conventions earlier …
As the oil spill from the sunken MV Rak carrier continues to threaten fisheries and mangroves, the question being asked all around is why did the authorities not take prompt and adequate measures to plug the source of the leak. A thin layer of lubricant oil was first spotted at …
Oil spills in the Arabian Sea, off the Mumbai coast, seem to have become an annual affair. MV Rak, the Panama-flagged cargo ship that sank off Mumbai on Thursday, started leaking oil late on Saturday night. Last August, the collision of merchant ships MSC Chitra and MV Khalija at the …
For more than 60 years, anyone standing on France’s D-day landing beaches has been able to stare out to sea and imagine the bloody launch of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. So when the French government recently confirmed plans to install an array of towering wind turbines in the …
The Indian Minister of Environment and Forests, Jayanthi Natarajan, invited all Parties to the high-level segment of COP-11 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre from 17 to 19 October 2012 highlighting five key issues for discussion.
The environmental impact assessment reports comprising of the terrestrial component b M/s Enkay Enviro Services Pvt. Ltd and the marine component by Indomer Coastal Hydraulics (P) Ltd., Chennai, under the overall coordination of BMT Consultants India Pvt. Limited. The purpose of this report is to establish the environmental feasibility of …
Small fish play a big role in the oceans and catches should be cut sharply to safeguard marine food chains from plankton to blue whales, an international team of experts said on Thursday. Rising human exploitation of little fish -- including anchovy, sardine, herring, mackerel and capelin -- had had …
The ecosystem-level impacts of the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been largely unpredictable due to the unique setting and magnitude of this spill. We used a five-year (2006–2010) data set within the oil-affected region to explore acute consequences for early-stage survival of fish species inhabiting seagrass nursery habitat. Although many of …
The fund BP set up to deal with compensation claims after last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill is working too slowly, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday. The fund is not sufficiently transparent and requires too much documentation from claimants, said Holder after a visit to Orange …
As mining companies prepare to exploit the copper and gold in the seabed, the author explore the fate of the unique ecosystems around tectonic boundaries. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128193.700-deep-sea-gold-rush-mining-hydrothermal-vents.html
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Let's see if we can mine the ores around hydrothermal vents without destroying the marine habitat in the process. (Editorial) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128192.600-new-dawn-for-mining-at-the-seabed.html
The United Artists Association (UAA) and Greenpeace India undertook an independent study in the Gahirmatha region to understand, examine and document perceptions and thoughts of fisher communities on income generation schemes and livelihood options as well as their perceptions and attitudes relating to the existing fisheries management and marine conservation …
Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday. The Pacific algae, absent from the North Atlantic for 800,000 years according to fossil records, apparently returned after climate change …
