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 …
S M Arun | SCUBA diving has begun to catch the attention of environmentalists in Tamil Nadu. People's Action for Development (PAD), an NGO at Vembar in Thoothukudi, is making scuba diving a reality for researchers and environmentalists. Scuba, acronym for Self- Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, is a device that …
India has called for an international vessel monitoring system to prevent illegal fishing by big nations in the territorial waters of other countries, said Minister of State for Agriculture K.V. Thomas here today. "I raised this matter in the fifth Conference of Fisheries Ministers held at Baiona in Spain on …
WITH A MESSAGE: Members of an environment protection group taking out a march from Coimbatore on Monday to Poompuhar in Nagapattinam District as part of a campaign against pollution of water resources.
The excessive usage of plastic bags in twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi has become order of the day, resulting in high environmental problems and hazards to human health. The bags are frequently used in the markets by fast food restaurants, fruits vendors, milk provider, convenience stores and other shops. …
Sri Lanka's marine ecosystem will be affected due to sea level rise around its coastal zone due to melting of the Himalayas. Therefore, the problem related to Himalaya is a regional phenomenon, Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawake said. The Minister was expressing his views during bi-lateral discussions with Nepali Prime …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will hear in the first week of October a fresh application filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a direction to the Centre to scrap the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices P. Sathasivam and B.S. Chauhan …
This new UNEP report warns that the pace and extent of climate change may exceed even the most sobering expectations voiced by IPCC fourth assessment report. It is based on findings of more than 400 major peer-reviewed scientific studies & research institutions over the last three years. Climate Change Science …
Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across hundreds of miles (km) of open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." A research vessel carrying a team of about 30 researchers, technicians and crew members …
This report addresses sea-level rise and the associated flooding of coastal regions and it s the first-of-its kind assessment incorporating the fate of the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica into global sea level projections. Says that that sea-levels will very likely rise by more than one meter by …
Climate change disrupts ecological systems in many ways. Many documented responses depend on species' life histories, contributing to the view that climate change effects are important but difficult to characterize generally. However, systematic variation in metabolic effects of temperature across trophic levels suggests that warming may lead to predictable shifts …
The world's embattled coral reefs provide habitat for some 9 million species, including 4000 kinds of fish. Roughly 100 million people in developing countries depend on reefs for subsistence fishing and tourism, estimates the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). The "rainforests of the sea," however, are threatened by human activity and …
After a long history of overexploitation, increasing efforts to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries are under way. Here, we analyze current trends from a fisheries and conservation perspective. In 5 of 10 well-studied ecosystems, the average exploitation rate has recently declined and is now at or below the rate …
Disease, bleaching events killed corals in the Caribbean caribbean coral reefs have lost their complex structure and flattened over the past 40 years said a study by University of East Anglia in the UK. The marine population and fishing industry that depend on them feel the impact of this change …
