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Bluefin tuna sells for $37,000 in Tokyo new year 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 ...
- January 6, 2015
How will climate change affect your livelihood?
Here, then, are a few scenarios for a climate-altered future, when rising temperatures are closing in on the threshold of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels which scientists warn we ...
- September 7, 2015
Study: Pesticide pollution in water is rare, but can be severe
A global study of pesticides in streams and waterways released Monday, April 13, found that such pollution is rare, but when found it exceeded regulatory limits about half the time. The study in the Proceedings of the ...
- May 28, 2015
French President visiting 'Yolanda'-hit areas ahead of crucial climate talks
French President Francois Hollande will visit the typhoon-ravaged Philippines in February to build momentum for crucial climate change talks that France is hosting this year, his environment envoy said Friday. Hollande ...
- January 25, 2015
U.S. pays PH P87-M compensation for warship reef damage
For the damage caused to Tubbataha Reef by the grounding of a United States Navy ship two years ago, the Philippines received 87,033,570.71 or nearly $ 2 million from the US government as compensation. In a statement issued ...
- February 19, 2015
Fears over plasticeating corals
Corals in the Great Barrier Reef are eating small plastic debris in the ocean, Australian researchers said Tuesday, raising fears about the impact the indigestible fragments have on their health and other marine life. The ...
- February 25, 2015
Aquino: World should fear China’s actions in South China Sea
The contested claims have for decades made the sea one of Asia’s flashpoints, and tensions have risen in recent years as China has moved to assert its authority over the areas. Following a tense standoff between Chinese ...
- April 15, 2015
Self-restraint over disputed sea urged
Southeast Asian leaders are to call for self restraint to avoid escalation of tensions in the South China Sea, according to a draft obtained Monday of a document expected to be released at the end of a regional summit ...
- November 11, 2015
Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs
Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a growing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral gardening. It works like this: marine biologists ...
- July 9, 2015
200 stranded whales
Almost 200 pilot whales stranded themselves Friday on New Zealand beach renowned as a deathtrap for the marine mammals, conservation officials said. At least 24 whales from the pod of 198 that beached themselves at Farewell ...
- February 14, 2015