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PH to turn Pag-asa into tourist attraction
The government has set aside P1.6 billion to turn the biggest Philippine-held island in the Spratlys into a tourist attraction and marine research center, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday. Lorenzana visited ...
- April 22, 2017
Tourist haven yields 770-lb crocodile
Wildlife rangers had trapped a 4.4-meter saltwater crocodile at a tourist destination in Australia’s Northern Territory, the biggest caught in the area in years, a wildlife ranger said. The 350-kilogram (770 pounds or lbs) ...
- September 4, 2020
Whaling protester to be charged in Japan
An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand is in custody on a Japanese vessel and will be taken to Japan to face charges after secretly boarding the ship as part of a protest, officials said Tuesday. Peter Bethune, a member ...
- February 18, 2010
Agency delays plan for keeping Asian carp from Great Lakes
The Trump administration has delayed indefinitely a plan for strengthening defenses on a crucial Chicago-area waterway to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, where scientists say they could cause severe harm ...
- March 2, 2017
Filipino fishers back from Panatag Shoal with big catch
After being chased away by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel from the Scarborough Shoal days earlier, fisherman Gil Bauya and his crew of eight were sailing home when they passed a fishing boat anchored off the rich fishing ...
- October 30, 2016
Rising temperatures kill thousands of fish
Thousands of fish are dying in central United States as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 38 degrees Celsius. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed ...
- August 7, 2012
China to return US drone; keep it, says Trump
China will return an underwater US drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea with Beijing complaining that Washington had been “hyping up” the incident. But US president- elect Donald Trump tweeted, ...
- December 19, 2016
Gulf Coast oil spill spreading out of control
An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread ...
- May 1, 2010
Super oysters
On a summer morning, marine biologist Ray Grizzle reaches into the waters of the Bronx River estuary and pulls up an oyster. The 2-year-old female is "good and healthy." He grabs another handful and gets more good news. "
- September 4, 2012
Pacific bird sanctuary ravaged by plastic, death
Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ...
- December 12, 2019