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Philippine marine life under threat from industrial fishing
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 06/06/2025
» MANILA - Impoverished fishing communities in the Philippines are caught in a David-and-Goliath fight with industrial fishing companies after the country's top court loosened restrictions on commercial operations in protected coastal waters.
Hurricane Helene wreaks havoc in US Southeast, at least 60 dead
Reuters, Published on 29/09/2024
» Southeastern US states started a massive cleanup and recovery effort on Sunday after winds, rain and storm surges from Hurricane Helene snuffed out power for millions, destroyed roads and bridges and caused catastrophic flooding from Florida to Virginia.
Freshwater fish swim into trouble as climate change increases threat: IUCN
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» DUBAI - A quarter of freshwater fish species worldwide are at risk of extinction, according to an update to the global red list of threatened species on Monday, highlighting the escalating impacts of human-caused climate change on the planet's wildlife.
To save California coasts, scientists turn to the humble oyster
AFP, Published on 10/10/2022
» CHULA VISTA (UNITED STATES) - There are no pearls growing on the oyster reefs in San Diego Bay, but scientists hope they will yield an even more valuable treasure: protection against coastal erosion wrought by rising sea levels.
Dozens of sea turtles stabbed to death in Japan
AFP, Published on 19/07/2022
» A frustrated fisherman has confessed that he stabbed to death dozens of protected sea turtles on a southern Japanese island after they got caught in his fishing nets, local officials say.
'Lungs of the Mediterranean' at risk
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» MONASTIR, Tunisia: Under the Mediterranean waters off Tunisia, gently waving green seagrass meadows provide vital marine habitats for the fishing fleets and an erosion buffer for the beaches the tourism industry depends on.
In Florida, a worrying uptick in manatee deaths
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» TAMPA - Baby manatee Lativa was so sick that her caregivers had to put a flotation device on her to allow her to come to the surface to breathe.
Fears flood water runoff could 'smother' Barrier Reef
AFP, Published on 15/02/2019
» SYDNEY - Runoff from recent floods in northern Australia is flowing onto parts of the Barrier Reef, scientists said Friday, starving coral of light and providing fodder for the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish.
Tiny killer threatens giant clam, aquatic emblem of the Med
AFP, Published on 25/01/2019
» VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER (FRANCE) - With wing-shaped shells lined with iridescent mother-of-pearl and producing the fibres of rare and delicate sea silk, the noble pen shell clam is one of the most emblematic species in the Mediterranean and a bellwether for marine environmental health.