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 …
In the wake of the newest pollution map of the Indian Ocean, showing an ugly halo of pollution around Sri Lanka, the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) yesterday stressed that it had not as yet conducted proper studies to assess the marine pollution situation here. EPA’s Manager of Operations Jagath …
The fishermen community, including the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on Wednesday expressed concern over the loss of fish species, as tonnes of dead fish reached ashore after rain, causing threat to marine ecology. Nature conservationists held responsible government authorities over discharge of industrial effluents dumped into the rivers and drains …
While the recent torrential monsoon rains led to the death of about 50 people in different incidents of electrocution and drowning in the city, it has also brought disaster for the marine life along Karachi coast. The local fishermen and citizens found thousands of dead fish of different sizes floating …
Ecology, distribution and diversity of Copepod collected from two salt pans of Mumbai, India, are presented. Copepods, the main zooplankton components, consisted mainly of Bestiolina similis, Acartia southwelli, Oithona sp., O. similis, O. hebes and Mesochra sp. The species distribution showed pulses and peaks with harpacticoids dominating in extreme environmental …
A federal judge denied an attempt by BP Plc to suspend payments to people and businesses claiming damages related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, while an investigator looks into possible misconduct in the payout process. The payments are being made under a program set up under a …
NIO study also concluded that water quality fulfilled criteria of CPCB for eco-sensitive zones The impact of industrial activity on aquatic fauna found at bottom of the Arabian sea (macrobenthic communities) in the sensitive ecosystem of the Marine National Park and Sanctuary (MNPS) in southern Gulf of Kutch was found …
Nine Containers That Fell Off A Ship Could Damage Vessels The flora and fauna of the fragile ecosystem of Gujarat particularly that of the Marine National Park in the Gulf of Kutch are staring at an environmental disaster. At least nine huge containers of the total 17 that had fallen …
The low-lying island of Maldives has pledged to be the first nation where the entire country will be a biosphere reserve by 2017. It has set a goal that ensures that more than half of the country’s atolls are implementing the new approach by the end 2017, in order to …
Not only do fish and invertebrates make their own sounds, but wind, waves and currents also create other background noise. And reefs especially are naturally noisy places. Add this noise to the engines and horns of shipping vessels and military sonars, and we have a full-blown orchestra of marine sounds. …
Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday called for setting up a corpus fund to help quick response to oil spills in the sea and protecting India's fragile coastal eco-system. In the recent past, there have been frequent incidents of leakages of crude from broken ships or from …
This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis gives a more detailed look at how the negative …
A “cold snap” 116 million years ago triggered a marine ecosystem crisis similar to those witnessed as a result of global warming, a new study claims. The international study involving experts from the universities of Newcastle, UK, Cologne, Frankfurt and GEOMAR-Kiel, confirms the link between global cooling and a crash …
Coastal zones represent diverse ecosystems and support highly productive habitats such as mangroves, mudflats and other marine species. India has a coast line of 7,500 km which is intersected by rocky outcrops and shores with stretches of sandy beaches. It supports over 25% of anthropogenic and socio-economic factors the coastal …
The RSPB says the number of birds affected by the spill has now reached 4,000 Wildlife charities are calling for tighter regulations to protect seabirds from a group of chemicals that caused hundreds of seabirds to be washed up off the south coast of England. The number of seabirds affected …
A high-level environment ministry panel has recommended coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance for setting up a desalination unit at Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu. The desalination plant functions on distillation (mechanical vapour compression) principle. Seawater will be drawn from the sea and will be fed to the …
Complaints of many resorts in Maldives dumping majority of its waste into the sea are mounting, Environment Ministry said Thursday. Minister Mariyam Shakeela revealed that the waste of resorts amount to 7.5kg per head, while it has been confirmed that the majority of the waste do not reach the dump …
Some radioactive water may have leaked into the ground from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator said on Sunday, the latest in a series of troubles at the facility. The fresh leak comes a day after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said up …
A second underground storage pool is leaking radioactive water at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday. The first pool, No. 2, was found to have leaked 120 tons of highly radioactive water on Friday. The size of the leak at the second …
Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday. The utility, known as Tepco, said the volume of the latest leakage is believed to be small. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tons …
Climate change is likely to make reef-building stony corals lose out to softer cousins in a damaging shift for many types of fish that use reefs as hideaways and nurseries for their young, a study showed. Soft corals such as mushroom-shaped yellow leather coral, which lack a hard outer skeleton, …
