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 …
THE number of fish, turtles and other wildlife in the world’s oceans has halved in decades, conservationists warn. Overfishing, pollution and changing climate are blamed for the ‘potentially catastrophic’ decline in marine life. From the temperate UK waters to tropical coral reefs, the planet’s seas are emptying fast, the World …
The Environmental Protection Ministry last week appealed to the Haifa District Court against a lower court’s ruling that cleared the Haifa Port Company of charges of marine pollution. According to the ministry, the company’s argument in the lower court that a conviction would severely damage its image and have economic …
Populations of fish critical to human food security are in serious decline worldwide with some at risk of collapse according to the emergency edition of a WWF report released. WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report finds that much of the activity threatening the ocean is avoidable and solutions do exist to …
SYDNEY, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Rubbish and debris entering into the marine environment is become a more high profile issue after Australian researchers found more than half of the world's sea turtles have swallowed plastic or other rubbish. Researchers from the University of Queensland examined threats to six marine turtle …
The US Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar that may inadvertently harm whales and dolphins in waters near Hawaii and California. A federal judge in Honolulu signed the deal between the Navy and environmental groups on Monday. It restricts or bans the use of mid-frequency active sonar …
The United States Agency for International Development and The Nature Conservancy have launched a major new project aimed at protecting critical marine ecosystems in the Caribbean. USAID launched the $12.5 million Caribbean Marine Biodiversity Program on the Grenadian island of Carriacou. The five-year initiative “seeks to improve the management of …
Local people say way of life is under threat from industrial vessels, and see plan as chance to protect environment and repair relations with mainland In the pre-dawn gloom in a small harbour on Easter Island, three fishermen fill their boats. Instead of piling nets, they load rocks which they …
Corals are recovering from last year’s bleaching but warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures this year will likely lead to a more deadly year for coral reef Warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures around Hawaii this year will likely lead to the worst coral bleaching the islands have ever seen, scientists said. Many corals are only …
The man promoting a controversial underground gold mine near Majors Creek was in charge of an Australian mine in the Philippines which discharged cyanide-laden waste into creeks, killing fish and other marine creatures. The Philippines Government imposed a record fine of $A267,000 against Lafayette after investigating two instances of cyanide …
Mercury pollution in California may be coming from a surprising source: elephant seals. Scientists have found that molting elephant seals actually shed considerable amounts of mercury into coastal waters. Mercury is a major problem in the marine environment. The most toxic form of it, methyl mercury, is readily absorbed and …
A new report has found that developing new technologies to cope with the effects of climate change is critical in the coming years. In this photo, houses on stilts are seen as the sun sets around the Manila bay in Manila February 5, 2015. Reuters/Romeo Ranoco Scientists said that a …
A new legislation has been passed by the California State Senate to ban the sale of personal care products containing plastic microbeads on Friday, Sept 4. The amended bill would prohibit the use of microbeads due to officials found it harmful on the marine life and human health by polluting …
M Lakshmi (46) was hardly seven years old when she took her maiden boat ride to the islands in the Gulf of Mannar to collect seaweed and has come a long way to win the prestigious Seacology Prize and travel all the way to Berkeley in California to receive the …
Parliamentary committee recommended making Cairns a ‘priority port’ but Queensland government says it is committed to keeping reef off ‘in danger’ list The Queensland government has ruled out major development of a port in Cairns that would jeopardise Australia’s pledge to Unesco to limit industrial impacts on the Great Barrier …
Nearly 60 percent of seabird species like penguins, gulls and albatrosses have plastic in their gut and by 2050 this may rise to 99 percent, a new study says. The scientists estimate that 90 per cent of all seabirds alive today have eaten plastic of some kind. This includes bags, …
The deep ocean was once assumed to be lifeless and barren. Today we know that even the deepest waters teem with living creatures, some of them thought to be little changed from when life itself first appeared on the planet. The deep ocean is also essential to the earth’s biosphere—it …
Seabirds have seen a dangerous increase in the amount of plastic they ingest, according to researchers who say around 90 percent have the toxic material in their guts. The figure is dramatically higher than just a few decades ago, and just 10 percent of seabirds were found in the 1980s …
It turns out that allowing trawl nets to drag deep below the ocean, and other forms of deep-sea fishing that scoop up or kill many species, is a real threat to marine environments and vulnerable species. It also doesn't benefit fishermen. That is, researchers from the University of Glasgow and …
The US government has urged the international community to focus more on the impact of climate change on the oceans, amid growing concern over changes affecting corals, shellfish and other marine life. The US will raise the issue at United Nations climate talks in Paris later this year. The UN’s …
The deep sea is the world’s largest ecosystem, with high levels of biodiversity and many species that exhibit life-history characteristics that make them vulnerable to high levels of exploitation. Many fisheries in the deep sea have a track record of being unsustainable. In the northeast Atlantic, there has been a …
