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 …
Human management of ecological systems, including issues like fisheries, invasive species, and restoration, as well as others, often must be undertaken with limited information. This means that developing general principles and heuristic approaches is important. Here, I focus on one aspect, the importance of an explicit consideration of time, which …
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said his government is working on beach cleaning and liquid waste management as part of efforts to protect the marine ecosystem. “It was a wonderful to meet and discuss marine environment with Mr Erik Solheim, UN Environment Executive Director, last evening (sic),” Fadnavis …
Each cycle of a washing machine could release more than 700,000 microscopic plastic fibres into the environment, according to a study. Inside the lonely fight against the biggest environmental problem you've never heard of Read more A team at Plymouth University in the UK spent 12 months analysing what happened …
Italy's Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea committed 4.5 million euro in new funds for the protection of the sea through UN Environment's Mediterranean Action Plan. The sum will be used to fund better safeguarding of protected areas in the Mediterranean, tackling the critical issue of marine …
The worst global bleaching event on record could simply be the new normal, according to one of the foremost experts on coral reefs and their response to warming oceans. Mark Eakin, head of the Coral Reef Watch program at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has told the Guardian …
The ocean is losing its breath! The Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE), a new working group of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, seeks to integrate worldwide research efforts on deoxygenation ' the decline in oxygen concentrations ' in the open ocean and coastal areas, and study the progression …
The world's oceans teem with scientific mystery, unknowns that could prove to be tools that will one day protect the planet from global warming. Today, researchers report they've tripled the known types of viruses living in waters around the globe, and now have a better idea what role they play …
Hundreds of volunteers on Saturday poured onto the Kenyan coast to collect trash as a way of celebrating this year's International Coastal Clean-up Day. Several officials from the US Embassy in Nairobi travelled to the Coast to take part in the exercise of clearing sea debris and marine pollutants, which …
More than £20m will be invested in doubling the area of ocean under marine protection around British overseas territories, the Government has announced today (15 September). “Protecting four million square kilometres of ocean is a fantastic achievement, converting our historic legacy into modern environmental success,” Duncan said. Moreover, an additional …
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and the Federal University of South of Bahia (UFSB) in Brazil warn of the negative environmental impacts of unplanned coastal occupation on tropical reefs and consequently on the …
The US space agency is taking images of the Great Barrier Reef from 8.5 kilometres up in a specially equipped jet to gain a better understanding of what humans are doing to the largest living thing on Earth. Using a state-of-the-art sensor that allows scientists to effectively build a naked …
Humanity is driving an unprecedented extinction of sealife unlike any in the fossil record, hunting and killing larger species in a way that will disrupt ocean ecosystems for millions of years, scientists have found. A new analysis of the five mass extinction events millions of years ago discovered there was …
Norway and Turkey were the only two of 53 countries to vote against an international ban on the dumping of mining waste at sea, at a major conservation summit in Hawaii last week. Even big mining nations including China and Russia voted in favour of the resolution at the International …
Appealing to all Opposition political parties to join hands in protesting the nationalisation of rivers in the State, Goa Forward on Wednesday termed the move by the Union Government as the “worst catastrophe faced by Goans”. The party alleged that the move is only to facilitate coal shipping and not …
Scientists working on a Nasa-led project are scanning large swathes of the Great Barrier Reef as part of the biggest assessment of the world’s coral reefs ever undertaken. The US$15m three-year coral reef airborne laboratory mission promises to solve outstanding mysteries of what drives coral reef health and provide reef …
China's top oceanic authority urged provincial governments to better protect Northeast China's severely polluted Bohai Sea via new legislation, media reported Monday. During a two-day visit to Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province last week, an investigation team from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) stated that most of the pollutants in …
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has almost fully recovered from the worst coral bleaching ever known in recent history, authorities said on Monday. A three-minute video clip recorded on September 2 by Quicksilver Group, a private tour operator specialising in Great Barrier Reef tours in Queensland showed several international and local …
The Coral living along the coastal reef of Hawaii could face extinction due to rising temperatures in the ocean. By controlling fishing activities, establishing new Marine protected patches on the sea and controlling the runoff population that arises from the land, Hawaiian officials have started their campaign to rid their …
The presence of harmful chemicals and toxic paints in the idols, environmentalists point out, poses a major threat to aquatic life. As the 10-day Ganesh festival draws closer to its grand culmination, the immersion of Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols in the city’s water bodies has become a major point …
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has almost fully recovered from the worst coral bleaching ever known in recent history, authorities said on Monday. A three-minute video clip recorded on September 2 by Quicksilver Group, a private tour operator specialising in Great Barrier Reef tours in Queensland showed several international and local …
