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Storms to starfish: Great Barrier Reefs faces rapid coral loss
The world's largest coral reef - under threat from Australia's surging coal and gas shipments, climate change and a destructive starfish - is declining faster than ever and coral cover could fall to just 5% in the next ...
- October 5, 2012
Enough is enough: Round bowls drive fish crazy
A leading French aquarium vendor has decided to stop selling round fishbowls because they drive fish mad and kill them quickly. French pet care market leader AgroBiothers Laboratoire will no longer sell any aquariums with ...
- January 24, 2022
West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves
Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's ...
- March 12, 2010
South China Sea ruling in Hague could be mid-2016- PH lawyer
The chief counsel for the Philippines in its Hague tribunal case against China over competing claims in the South China Sea said on Friday a final ruling could come as early as June next year. Paul Reichler said he also ...
- November 2, 2015
Palace welcomes int'l effort on China sea row
Malacañang yesterday welcomed greater international participation to peacefully resolve maritime disputes in the South China Sea, especially with Beijing’s ongoing reclamation activities. Deputy presidential spokesperson ...
- May 16, 2015
Our door is always open to Phl-China
China yesterday sought to downplay comments by President Duterte that he would raise an arbitral ruling on the South China Sea with leaders in Beijing, expressing confidence the Philippine leader will make his policy based ...
- October 18, 2016
Britain, France to sail warships in disputed South China Sea
Britain and France are sailing warships through the South China Sea this year to challenge China's militarization of the hotly contested waterway, their defense ministers said on Sunday. The British and French defense ...
- June 5, 2018
US warship sails near disputed South China Sea islands
A US Navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Sunday, a US official told Reuters, potentially angering Beijing at a time of tense relations between the two countries. Beijing and ...
- October 2, 2018
China hits back at US criticism sea 'restrictions'
China hit back yesterday at United States criticism that it restricts navigation and overflights in the South China Sea amid a festering marine territorial dispute with some of its neighbors. China claims most of the South ...
- August 11, 2015
Dead dolphins wash up in France in record numbers
hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on France’s Atlantic coast in such high numbers that local populations of the mammals are at risk, marine biologists say. The majority drowned in the nets of fishing trawlers. ...
- June 27, 2020