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 …
Admitting that there are some "knowledgeable gaps" when it comes to the issue of climate change and its effect on ecosystem including marine ecosystem, earth sciences minister Prithviraj Chavan, clarified that country's development cannot be capped in the name of reducing greenhouse gases. Mr Chavan said climate change is the …
Galicia, in the northwest of Spain, has initiated a bottom-up implementation and shared governance scheme for marine protected areas for small-scale fisheries management.
Mounting loss of seagrass in the world's oceans, vital for the survival of endangered marine life, commercial fisheries and the fight against climate change, reveals a major crisis in coastal ecosystems, a report says. A global study of seagrass, which can absorb large amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide, found that …
Ocean fertilization has been highly publicized as a cost effective strategy for mitigating climate change. However, these costs do not effectively account for the observed shortcomings in sequestration efficiency, nor the total economic value of ecosystem function which might be lost due to ocean fertilization, and have been significantly underestimated. …
Wildlife in a Changing World presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Beginning with an explanation of the IUCN Red List as a key conservation tool, it goes on to discuss the state of the worlds species and provides the latest information on the patterns …
Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Monday singed two memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with a French firm to conduct a comprehensive study on the development of desalination and water treatment plants at Karachi Port and Port Qasim. The MoUs were signed by KPT Chairperson Nasreen Haque …
MUMBAI: With a rare hope of restoring the marine ecosystem in the `poisonous' Mithi, the city's metropolitan administration now wants the river-turned-nullah's unbearable stink in the BKC area to go. But this exercise, likely to be implemented after the monsoon, is reportedly aimed at increasing the value of BKC land …
Kappaphycus Alvarezii is a source of livelihood in the Gulf of Mannar region, but with speculation that it might be bio-invasive, the onus lies with the Government of TamilNadu to strike the right balance.
Thoothukudi THE village committee of Periyathalai has pleaded with the authorities concerned to cancel the proposed private harbour in Manappadu. President of the village committee, Felix told that around 8,000 people were occupied in fishing activities in Periyathalai. Recently, the government has given its approval for the setting up of …
Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday. Seventy academies from around the world urged governments meeting in Bonn for climate talks from June 1-12 to …
Human-induced eutrophication, or nutrient overenrichment, is a rapidly growing environmental crisis in freshwater and marine systems worldwide. Nutrients that cause eutrophication include nitrogen and phosphorus. While nitrogen and phosphorus are critical to biological processes in aquatic ecosystems, increased runoff of these nutrients to aquatic ecosystems from land-based sources results in …
Large cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases are needed if we are to avoid the worst effects of global climate change. This rapid assessment report describes the vital contributions which ecosystems can and must make to improve these efforts. It presents carbon capture and storage through a Green Economy lens, …
Europeans started over-exploiting freshwater fish at least 1,000 years ago, according to historical studies that could help manage depleted modern fish stocks worldwide. Whales teemed in waters off New Zealand in the 19th century and a now almost non-existent cod stock in the Gulf of Maine totalled a huge 70,000 …
