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2/9/2010
Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with
extinction, the updated Red List of endangered species showed Thursday.
Scientists conducting a survey on 5,167 ...
27/8/2010
Chesapeake oysters are a succulent treat that for centuries have been loved almost to
extinction. But some scientists and business people are making headway in bringing back the bivalve, for the sake of oyster lovers and the bay.
A ...
23/8/2010
Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented legal questions for small island nations and their neighbors.
Among them: If a country disappears, is it still a country? Does it keep its seat at ...
18/8/2010
Scientists in Hawaii have set up the first frozen bank for corals to save threatened species of this vital ocean ecosystem anchor from
extinction.
Researchers warn that without swift action, coral reefs and many of the animals that ...
14/8/2010
What lives in the world's oceans? Crabs mostly, according to the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year research effort.
Crustaceans like crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles account for 19 percent of all species found in 25 ...
12/8/2010
It looks like an unremarkable pond on the western edge of the University of Calgary's campus, but it's actually prized scientific territory where small stickleback
fish show their evolutionary aptitude in the face of climate ...
9/8/2010
To assess how heavy a blow the BP oil spill has dealt the Gulf of Mexico, researchers are closely watching a staple of the seafood industry and primary indicator of the ecosystem's health: the blue crab.
Weeks ago, before engineers ...
8/8/2010
Six Yemeni
fishing boats captured in Egyptian territorial waters in June might have gone unnoticed if not for their unusual cargo -- several kilometers of long lines and over 20 tons of dead sharks."The capture of these boats provided ...
4/8/2010
Australia and Japan boast some of the planet's most diverse oceans but thousands of organisms remain unknown to science and global warming is a huge marine peril, a major new census says.
Both Australia and Japan have some 33,000 known ...
2/8/2010
Crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans represent the most common species in the world's seas, and the waters of Australia and Japan are the most diverse, according to a vast inventory of marine life published Monday.
"We have made ...
2/8/2010
It has been the biggest and most comprehensive attempt ever to answer that age-old question – how many
fish are there in the sea?
Published today, a 10-year study of the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the world's oceans ...
30/7/2010
It is the starting point for our oceans' food chain. But stocks of phytoplankton have decreased by 40 percent since 1950, potentially as a result of global warming. It is an astonishing collapse, say researchers, and may have dramatic ...
29/7/2010
One hundred days ago Thursday, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As profoundly as the leak of millions of barrels of oil is injuring the Gulf ecosystem, it is only one of many threats to the Earth's oceans ...
23/6/2010
On the morning of June 4, in the international waters south of Malta, the Greenpeace vessels Rainbow Warrior and Arctic Sunrise deployed eight inflatable Zodiacs and skiffs into the azure surface of the Mediterranean. Protesters aboard donned ...
23/6/2010
A decision by a nonprofit organization to certify a company's Antarctic krill harvesting has drawn fierce criticism from conservationists and undercut the group's image as a diligent steward of ocean
fishing stocks.
Krill, tiny pink ...
22/6/2010
Every summer thousands of visitors flock to our seaside resorts -- loud and confident, swaggering around gorging on ice cream and chips. No, not holidaymakers but herring gulls. One of our most familiar, and possibly least popular, birds, they ...
17/6/2010
The world's oceans are virtually choking on rising greenhouse gases, destroying marine ecosystems and breaking down the food chain -- irreversible changes that have not occurred for several million years, a new study says.
The changes ...
14/6/2010
A controversial project to reintroduce sea eagles to southern England has been scrapped in the first of the government budget cuts to impact on the natural environment.
The majestic predators have been successfully reintroduced into the ...
13/6/2010
As glum Russian
fishermen haul in their net from the Volga river, just two small sturgeon are splashing about among the daily catch. "In the old days, we would catch sturgeon each weighing 132lb," sighed Pavel Syzranov, the head of the once ...
10/6/2010
The European Commission brought an early end to the bluefin tuna
fishing season yesterday saying that the quota allowed to be caught had already been fulfilled.
The summer season normally runs from 1-15 June, but the Commission said that ...
9/6/2010
The European Commission (EC) has announced an early end to the Atlantic bluefin tuna season since the quota of 13,500 tons has been met. The
fishing will end at 11:59 tonight GMT.
"The closure of the purse seine
fishery is necessary to ...
8/6/2010
MPs from major
fishing nations and
fisheries experts are holding talks in London on how to prevent the collapse of global
fish stocks.
They say it is the first step towards reaching a global agreement.
One proposal is to create ...
5/6/2010
For more than a decade, the hundreds of brown pelicans that nested among the mangrove shrubs on Queen Bess Island west of here were living proof that a species brought to the edge of
extinction could come back and thrive.
The island was ...
5/6/2010
Some 153,000 baby eels will be flown to Finland from France on Wednesday to help boost the Nordic country's stock of the endangered
fish, the Federation of Finnish
Fisheries Association said.
The eels, due to land in Helsinki around noon ...
30/5/2010
The world's most damaging oil spill -- now in its 41st continuously gushing day -- is creating huge unseen "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico, according to oceanologists and toxicologists. They say that if their fears are correct, then the sea's ...