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 …
BP Plc (BP.L) on Wednesday asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to allow the company to avoid making payments to businesses demanding compensation for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while litigation continues. The company acted after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction …
The ever-growing fleet of ships carrying people and goods from one port to another is the primary pollutant of sea water and disrupter of fragile marine life. While fuel emissions by ships contribute to global warming, anti-fouling paints, applied on the hulls of ships to fend off growth of organisms, …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will sponsor studies on turtles by Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to track the movement, migration and habitat of this marine species in the ocean. For the first time 10 turtles would be tracked through satellite telemetry. The Olive Ridley sea turtles have skipped …
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it has begun a bypass system that diverts groundwater into the sea in a bid to reduce the volume of contaminated water. The move is an attempt to stop tons of unpolluted groundwater flowing under the battered plant and mixing …
BP Plc (BP/) faces billions of dollars in additional payments after failing again to convince an appeals court that the company is being forced to pay claims that aren’t directly related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The decision leaves BP with two options -- pay claims the …
Beachcombers and beach cleaning equipment reduce shell numbers and endanger some organisms You might think twice next time you snag a seashell from the beach and drop it into your pocket: you might be altering the seaside environment. In a study more than 30 years in the making, researchers have …
U.S. environmental regulators set standards on Monday for large power plants and factories to modify their cooling water systems to reduce the harmful impact on marine and river life. The Environmental Protection Agency said it has initiated a process under the Clean Water Act, which will be implemented through National …
Bacteria bloom feeding on leaked methane after Deepwater Horizon explosion declined abruptly in June 2013 Scientists on Sunday said that methane which leaked from the 2010 oil-rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico persisted in the sea for months beyond a presumed cleanup of the gas by marine microbes. As …
Dry ice used by mechanized boats to preserve fish and dumped in the river over a long period of time can harm more marine life than the little it seeks to preserve on the shelf. The preservative may help the sea food reach the dining table in a fresher condition …
Monitoring and reducing man-made pollution by improving sanitation infrastructure for the fisheries sector in River Sal is necessary to ensure sustainable development of both marine bio-diversity and human economic development, a three-member technical team has suggested. The team which studied the mass mortality of 'tisreo' (clams) in Sal recently has …
Green cleaning brand Ecover to unveil packaging innovation to highlight long-term dangers of dumping plastic in ocean The world's first washing-up liquid bottle made from reclaimed ocean plastic is to go on sale in UK supermarkets later this month. The green cleaning brand Ecover will use the launch of its …
Next time you shampoo or clean your teeth, you may inadvertently be contributing to a spreading scourge of the world’s oceans. Many daily-use products contain tiny beads of plastic that are often too small to be picked up by wastewater treatment filters and quickly find their way into the seas. …
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The temporal and spatial dynamics of primary and secondary biomass/production in the Barents Sea since the late 1990s are examined using remote sensing data, observations and a coupled physical-biological model. Field observations of mesozooplankton biomass, and chlorophyll a data from transects (different seasons) and large-scale surveys (autumn) were used for …
The direct impacts of delta subsidence and effective seas level rise abetted by dams include inundation of coastal areas, saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers, increased rates of coastal erosion, an increased exposure to storm surges, etc, in addition to the threat to food security, livelihood security, water security to millions …
This paper explores the potential role of spatial planning in support of more coherent governance of water resources. Water resources throughout the continuum from land to the coast are being degraded with impacts on life supporting ecosystems, including the high seas. Human activities, both upstream in the terrestrial system and …
Bottom trawl fishing threatens deep-sea ecosystems, modifying the seafloor morphology and its physical properties, with dramatic consequences on benthic communities. Therefore, the future of deep-sea fishing relies on alternative techniques that maintain the health of deep-sea ecosystems and tolerate appropriate human uses of the marine environment. In this study, we …
Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over. Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colorful houses …
‘Coastal ecosystem facing major threat’ The marine and inland fisheries sectors in Kerala are likely to take a major hit as climate change affects fish stocks, resulting in decreased yield and loss of livelihood of fishermen. According to the State Action Plan on Climate Change prepared by the Department of …
Global miner Rio Tinto said on Monday it will give away its 19.1 percent stake in Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd, owner of Alaska's huge Pebble deposit, after determining that the project does not fit its strategy. Rio is donating its shares to two Alaskan charities, the miner said. The move …
