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Sea level rising at fasted pace in 2,800 years: study
The world’s oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the past 2,800 years, and might even have fallen without the influence of human-driven climate change, researchers say. Sea levels rose globally by about 5.5 ...
- February 26, 2016
Rice to riches: Vietnam's shrimp farmers fish for fortunes
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
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
Vast Antarctic marine reserves in focus at meeting
Campaigners Monday urged global leaders to put aside differences and create two vast Antarctic marine sanctuaries to protect one of the world's last untouched wilderness and a unique array of species, including whales and ...
- October 20, 2015
World's nations meet in Paris to rescue ocean life this time
It took a decade to get to the negotiating table, and it could easily take another to finish the job, but UN talks in New York to safeguard life in the high seas finally begin in earnest on Monday (March 28).
- March 28, 2016
Climate change puts Australian reef on 'knife edge'
The world's southernmost coral reef is on a "knife-edge" after warmer seas blamed on climate change bleached large parts of it for the first time, an Australian scientist warned on Wednesday. Peter Harrison, who has been ...
- March 26, 2010
Science points to the sea as new source of global warming
Ocean that grow more acidic through man's fossil fuel burning emissions, can amplify global warming by releasing less of a gas that helps shield Earth from radiation, study said on Sunday (Monday in Manila). And the authors ...
- August 27, 2013
Food chain collapse predicted in oceans
The world's oceans are teeming with life, but rising carbon dioxide emissions could cause a collapse in the marine food chain from the top down, researchers in Australia said. Marine ecologists from the University of ...
- October 14, 2015
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
Galapagos fights to protect islands
With its iconic giant tortoises, crested black iguanas, huge ocean manta rays and a veritable menagerie of other cool creatures, the Galapagos Islands are one of the most beautiful places you will probably never visit. Why ...
- February 9, 2018