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Tahiti pearls endangered by climate change
The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesia’s economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change, and its fragile existence underlines – in a small but exquisite way – what is at stake in the United ...
- November 26, 2015
US backs UN call to save oceans
The United States (US) on Friday joined all 192 other United Nations (UN) member states in releasing a “Call to Action” to save the oceans but disassociated itself from joint efforts to combat climate change. The declaration ...
- June 11, 2017
Untouched ocean habitats rapidly shrinking - study
Shipping, pollution, and overfishing have reduced areas of "wilderness" to just 13 percent of the world's oceans, a study showed on Friday (July 27), warning that untouched marine habitats could completely vanish within ...
- July 28, 2018
Whales under threat as climate change impacts migration
The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward their breeding grounds is one of nature’s most majestic displays. But global warming is killing off their ...
- December 12, 2015
1 M species risk extinction due to humns - draft UN report
Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by Agence France-Presse that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which ...
- April 27, 2019
Warming oceans are 'sick,' global scientists warn
Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday. The study included every ...
- September 15, 2016