Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
This brief provides an overview of the implications of climate change and natural disasters like flood, cyclone, drought, riverbank erosion and salinity intrusion for livelihoods in Bangladesh, especially in coastal rural areas, where people - in particular poor and marginalized farmers - overwhelmingly depend on agriculture, fishing, and forestry.
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Ramdas Janardan Koli Vs Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests dated 27/02/2015 regarding loss of livelihood by traditional fishermen, who are residents of villages, known as “Hanuman Koliwada, Uran Koliwada, Gavhan Koliwada, and BelpadaKoliwada” situated in …
Rio de Janeiro’s state environmental agency says it is investigating a fish die-off that has left thousands of carcasses floating in waters where sailing events are to be held when Brazil hosts next year’s Olympics. The dead twaite shad, small whitish gray fish, were discovered Tuesday by inspectors conducting routine …
Thousands of people living in Bandarban of Chittagong Hill Tracts are facing an acute crisis of safe drinking water as the sources are being destroyed by rampant stone lifting. Various streams and springs that run along the hilly regions of Bandarban have been the traditional sources of water for the …
Scottish Water has been fined after it accidentally polluted a river, killing nearly 5,000 fish. The body admitted polluting several kilometres of the River Farg with aluminium sulphate after an employee left a valve open at a water treatment facility in Perthshire. Perth Sheriff Court heard that virtually all the …
Environmentalists have alleged widespread destruction of mangrove forests near Kochi city. Mangroves along the Container Road linking Kalamassery to the Vallarpadam Island have been severely affected. There have also been instances of burning of mangrove forests near Maradu, said State convenor of the National Alliance of People’s Movement, V.D. Majeendran. …
Overfishing of large predatory fish populations has resulted in lasting restructurings of entire marine food webs worldwide, with serious socio-economic consequences. Fortunately, some degraded ecosystems show signs of recovery. A key challenge for ecosystem management is to anticipate the degree to which recovery is possible. By applying a statistical food-web …
The tribals staying in the core or buffer areas are dependent on forests for their survival and this has hugely disturbed the ecosystem. Finding an alternate solution for this long-existing quandary, a group of local environmentalists conducted an experiment and gave a new meaning to fish farming methods in tribal …
That's at least according to a study recently published in the journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, which paid particular attention to yellowish tuna caught in North Pacific commercial fisheries. "The take-home message is that mercury in tuna appears to be increasing in lock-step with data and model predictions for mercury …
The Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has published a number of reports addressing climate change vulnerability in fisheries and aquaculture based on six regional studies, and disaster risk management (DRM) in fisheries and aquaculture in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the …
Recent studies have showed that more than 90 per cent of coral reefs in the Seychelles are slowly but surely recuperating from the global 1998 El Niño phenomenon. The natural weather event resulted in an increase in sea temperature and subsequently a huge die-off among these living organisms. Although such …
Genetically modified plants created by British scientists to contain health boosting Omega-3 have been declared a safe alternative to fish oil. A crop of camelina (false flax) has been spliced with genes to produce an oil rich in fatty acid normally only found in fish. It is the first example …
Rates of marine animals needing treatment for ingesting plastic bags, balloons and other waste in Australian waters have “accelerated dramatically” in the past decade, according to veterinarians, the toll of more than five trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans largely unseen. The manager of Sydney’s Taronga Zoo …
The planet’s resources significantly contribute to the world’s economy. But businesses risk driving natural capital into the red Nature is like an angel investor in the global economy: financially significant, yet widely unknown. The global pharmaceuticals industry, for example, is worth some $640bn. But few know that up to 50% …
University of Tasmania finds 35 species face shifts in their ranges and egg-laying patterns as the waters off south-east Australia warm faster than average Australian scientists have assessed how 35 common fish species are coping with climate change, finding that most have to deal with new conditions and many are …
THE Climate Change Policy Framework and Action Plan will be tabled in the House of Representatives this month, Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill told Tuesday's media launch of Research Days 2015, at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. The policy and action plan, …
About 20 percent of the world's fishing catch is taken illegally by poachers, experts estimate, but a new satellite tracking system launched on Wednesday aims to crack down on the industrial-scale theft known as "pirate fishing." Run by the British technology firm Satellite Applications Catapult and backed by the Pew …
Warming-induced changes in lake thermal and mixing regimes present risks to water quality and ecosystem services provided by U.S. lakes and reservoirs. Modulation of responses by different physical and hydroclimatic settings are not well understood. We explore the potential effects of climate change on 27 lake “archetypes” representative of a …
Genetic resources for food and agriculture play a crucial role in food security, nutrition and livelihoods and in the provision of environmental services. They are key components of sustainability, resilience and adaptability in production systems. They underpin the ability of crops, livestock, aquatic organisms and forest trees to withstand a …
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. “We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. …
