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Japan challenges incursions by Chinese ships
Japan said Monday it has protested to China over two incursions into Japanese territorial waters that come after Beijing enacted legislation toughening its response to violations of its maritime territory.
- February 9, 2021
Great Barrier Reef bleaching worst – scientists
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef had suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, scientists said Tuesday in a dire warning about the threat posed by climate change to the world’s largest living organism. James ...
- April 8, 2020
Rice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimp
The Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam”, is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans. The shrimp bonanza ...
- August 10, 2017
Tuna nets $37,000 in Tokyo auction
A giant bluefin tuna sold for more than $37,000 in the first auction of the year at a Tokyo fish market on Monday, as Japan faces growing pressure to cut back on consumption of the threatened fish. The 180.4 kilogram (380) ...
- January 6, 2015
Cruise ruins 18,900 sqm of coral reef in Indonesia
Indonesia said Wednesday a cruise ship on a voyage organized by a British company had damaged about 18,900 square meters of coral reef, increasing the estimate of the devastation caused when the vessel ran aground. The ...
- March 23, 2017
Esperon: a ‘win-win’ for PH, China on Panatag
For National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, “it is a win-win” for both the Philippines and China. “But this is not to say that we have dropped our claim,” Esperon said on Monday, referring to Panatag Shoal, a rich ...
- November 1, 2017
Corals doomed even if global climate goals met - study
Coral reefs that anchor a quarter of marine wildlife and the livelihoods of more than half-a-billion people will most likely be wiped out even if global warming is capped within Paris climate goals, researchers said Tuesday. ...
- February 4, 2022
Rich nations oppose new biodiversity fund
Creating a new global fund for biodiversity - a core demand of developing countries at UN talks in Montreal --"would take years" and be less effective than reforming existing financial mechanism, Canada's environment ...
- December 16, 2022
122 Pregnant whales killed in hunt
Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research, but conservationists call "gruesome and unnecessary." The four-month expedition in ...
- June 1, 2018
'World's biggest' freshwater fish netted in Cambodia
A fisherman on the Mekong River in Cambodia has hooked the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists said — a 300-kilogram stingray. The giant freshwater stingray, which measured 4 meters (13 feet) from snout to ...
- June 22, 2022