Ocean Conservation News
Non-profit
oceans
news archive provided on these terms to help find solutions
and for posterity
| Disclaimer & Conditions for Use
12/3/2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will consider ways the states can address rising acidity levels in oceans, which pose a serious threat to shellfish and other marine life.The agency's decision was announced in a ...
12/3/2010
Illegal fishing and climate change are decimating shrimp and lobster populations in Central America, threatening a two-billion-dollar industry and 136,000 jobs, regional experts said Thursday.
"Pollution and warmer waters are impacting ...
11/3/2010
Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...
11/3/2010
Nearly one-third of U.S. bird species "are endangered, threatened or in significant decline," due to climate change, Department of the Interior chief Ken Salazar said Thursday.
Salazar issued a report, "The State of the Birds: 2010 ...
11/3/2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will consider ways the states can address rising levels of carbon dioxide in oceans.
The agency on Thursday settled a lawsuit filed last year by the Center for Biological Diversity in San ...
11/3/2010
The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than just local waters. In the March 12 edition of the journal Science, University of ...
11/3/2010
Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
In an unusual operation that was sparked by ...
11/3/2010
BP has bought into the Brazilian oil rush with a $7bn (£4.65bn) deal that will boost the group's potential reserves by about 2bn barrels of oil.
The deal, with Devon Energy of the US, will also create a joint venture to develop BP's ...
11/3/2010
There has been protest in Japan over a proposed ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a day after the European Union agreed to back the plan.
Wholesalers held a protest at Tokyo's fish market, while a top official said ...
11/3/2010
More than two animals and plants a year are becoming extinct in England and hundreds more are severely threatened, a report published today reveals.
Natural England, the government's agency responsible for the countryside, said the ...
11/3/2010
Nearly 500 species of plants and animals have disappeared in England in the past 200 years, according to the first comprehensive audit of native wildlife.
The disappearances, which have been largely attributed to human activities, ...
11/3/2010
The Cove
Production year: 2009
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 90 mins
Directors: Louie Psihoyos
More on this film
Federal prosecutors filed charges yesterday against a sushi ...
11/3/2010
Birds that rely on oceans and live on coastlines are more vulnerable to climate change than birds found in any other habitats in America, according to a new report released Thursday by federal biologists and other researchers.
Terns that ...
11/3/2010
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Interior Department report says global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...
11/3/2010
Oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses another threat in Virginia to oysters, clams and crabs as well as to water quality and coastal ecosystems, a panel of scientists and environmentalists warned Wednesday.
The experts, including ...
11/3/2010
The fate of Atlantic bluefin tuna, eaten to the edge of viability, will be decided in the next two weeks when the world's nations vote on whether to ban cross-border trade in the dwindling species.
A proposal by Monaco, backed by the ...
10/3/2010
The future of the bluefin tuna could be decided within days, along with two other endangered fish, the spiny dogfish and porbeagle, according to a national conservation charity.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said the northern ...
10/3/2010
European Union ambassadors agreed to propose protecting bluefin tuna as an endangered species on Wednesday, the EU presidency said, a move that would effectively ban international trade in the species.
A meeting of the Convention on ...
10/3/2010
The EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, reports indicate.
The bloc is reported to have agreed to push for a ban at next week's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...
10/3/2010
Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.
Some two dozen guests, surrounded on all sides by media, ...
10/3/2010
The federal government has recommended an endangered-species listing for loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could have big implications for the fishing industry.
The listing was proposed Wednesday by the National Oceanic ...
10/3/2010
A restaurant in Santa Monica, California faces criminal charges after being accused of selling sushi made from whale meat, the sale of which is strictly banned in the United States, prosecutors said.
The Hump restaurant and its chef ...
10/3/2010
Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores, conservationists warned on Wednesday.
According to a report by environmental group WWF-Malaysia, hundreds of thousands of turtle ...
9/3/2010
Suzanne Goldenberg
US environment correspondent
The run-up to the Oscars are a heady time for nominees: a whirlwind of screenings, cocktails, celebrity encounters and, for the makers of this year's prize winning eco-documentary, ...
9/3/2010
Four newly identified worm species, including one that sports an unusual green color, have been found wriggling in the sands of the Great Barrier Reef.
The layer of sand that covers the floors of the Earth's oceans is actually home to a ...