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, …
NOAA devises 14 population segments to allow them to protect those that need help most but activists say the whales are too ‘complicated’ for such judgment Most of the world’s humpback whales could soon be taken off the endangered species list. On Monday, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
A surge in hydroelectric power could displace the iconic region’s indigenous peoples and resources. When Asháninka Indian leader Ruth Buendía realized that a hydroelectric dam on the Amazon's Ene River would displace thousands of her people, she vowed to fight it. The project, she argued, would bring more hardship to …
THE Bonga 2011 oil spill incident from an offshore oil field operated by Shell Nigeria Production and Exploration Company (SNEPCO) affected 168,000 victims in 350 communities in Delta and Bayelsa. The Paramount Ruler of Olobia Community Koluama in Southern Ijaw Local Council of Bayelsa Chief Howells Levi, said on Monday …
China’s mounting clashes with its neighbors over control of the South China Sea also could be fueling a major environmental catastrophe, endangering fishing stocks, threatening marine biodiversity and posing long-term threats to some of the globe’s most spectacular coral reefs. Environmental scientists say the dangers are increasing as the conflicting …
Just after recent research warned that the world's most iconic ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef, may collapse under climate change, a new study is saying that this iconic site can in fact be saved. Researchers took a closer look at the effects ocean acidification has on coral, and have …
“The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Pakistan) is set to embark upon an extensive survey to assess Indus River dolphin populations,” said project coordinator Uzma Noureen on Sunday. She said the Indus River dolphin was a threatened river cetaceans living in five sub-populations in a 1,000 kilometre stretch of the …
A common growth-promoting hormone used worldwide in the cattle industry has been found to affect the sexual behaviours of fish at a very low concentration in waterways – with potentially serious ecological and evolutionary consequences. Researchers from Monash University, in collaboration with researchers from Åbo Akademi University in Finland, have …
It turns out that protected areas are more important than ever for coral reefs. Scientists have found that coral trout in protected "green zones" are not only bigger and more abundant than those fished in "blue zones," but are also better able to cope with cyclone damage. In this latest …
Scientists have discovered that deep water marine fish living on the continental slopes at depths of 2,000 feet are more are suffering health problems due to human-caused pollution. Surface waters aren't the only regions being impacted by pollution in the ocean. Scientists have discovered that deep water marine fish living …
EU regulators have referred Germany to the EU Court of Justice over a failure to look into alternative cooling processes at a coal-fired plant in Hamburg, operated by Vattenfall in order to protect wildlife, the European Commission said. The first of two blocks at the Moorburg power station on the …
Deep ocean fish are facing a host of health problems that may be due to man-made pollution, according to a new study. Even as far down as 2,000 feet to one mile beneath the surface, marine fish are suffering from liver pathologies, tumors and other conditions as harmful pollutants are …
Nearly a quarter of damages wrought by natural disasters on the developing world are borne by the agricultural sector according to initial results from a new FAO study released at the UN World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Organization also announced the launch of a special facility aimed at …
The economy of Himachal Pradesh is expected to grow 6.5 per cent in the current financial year, a notch less than the national growth of 7.5 per cent. The latest Economic Survey report was tabled in the state Assembly on 17 March, 2015. In recent years, the state has grown …
A new tool may help the United States better conserve whales, dolphins and porpoises. Scientists have identified more than 100 areas within U.S. waters that should be considered biologically important when making management and regulatory decisions about human activities. The regions are known as Biologically Important Areas (BIAs), and could …
Pune-based Western Zone bench of the National Green Tribunal has directed the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to pay a compensation of Rs 95.19 crore to the 1,630 fishermen families in Uran and Panvel talukas …
The adverse impact of climate change coupled with various other manmade catastrophes has been posing a serious threat to the indigenous fish species, particularly the small ones, as most of the water bodies are now dying situation in the region especially in Barind Tract. Fisheries scientists and experts said breeding …
An oil leak from Seibou Deep facility operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company has been discharging crude into Ogboinbiri River in Bayelsa. Residents of the coastal settlements in Ogboinbiri and neigbouring communities say the oil leak has damaged the fishing activities of the people. Some residents who depend on the …
Since February 2010, 1,308 dead or dying marine mammals — mostly bottlenose dolphins, including juveniles or aborted fetuses — have washed ashore on beaches and wetlands from Texas to Florida, or have been discovered floating in the Gulf’s murky waters. In some months, the numbers of stranded dolphins in Louisiana, …
As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultural hub, officials said on Monday. The cause of the spill on Sunday from the tank at a …
A North Florida non-profit proposing a National Marine Sanctuary for Northern right whales and Oculina coral that would cover more than 7,000-square miles of ocean from Jacksonville to Fort Pierce is headed back to the drawing board after having its initial application rejected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. …
