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Oceans have lost 2 percent of oxygen, says study
The world’s oceans have lost more than two percent of their oxygen since 1960, with potentially devastating consequences for sea plants and animals, marine scientists said Wednesday. In those five and a half decades, parts ...
- February 23, 2017
Plastic pollution builds up in Arctic waters
Even though few people live in the Artic, some seas in the region are heavily polluted with plastic because of an Atlantic ocean current which dumps debris there, researchers said Wednesday. Scientists aboard the globe ...
- April 27, 2017
Climate-ravaged corals recover poorly-study
Paris – Coral reefs that survive rapid bleaching fuelled by global warming remain deeply damaged, with little prospect of full recovery, researchers said. Sixteen years after the 1998 El Niño ravaged coral in the Indian ...
- January 26, 2017
Thailand tries to tackle mass of ocean trash
Thai authorities are trying to clean up a massive, one-kilometer long tangle of trash, officials said Friday, calling it the largest garbage heap to float through the kingdom's waters. The mass of debris was estimated to ...
- February 16, 2017
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
Duterte open to South China Sea deals
President Duterte said Tuesday he was open to exploring the South China Sea’s natural resources with rival claimants China and Vietnam, after securing a “windfall” while in Beijing. Duterte also emphasized he had no immediate ...
- May 17, 2017
Myanmar’s ‘smiling’ Irrawaddy dolphins on brink of extinction
Tears fill Maung Lay’s eyes as he describes losing the dolphin he knew since his childhood, the latest casualty of a battle against pollution and electrofishing that may see the species disappear in Myanmar. Loved for ...
- January 19, 2017
Sulphur-powered giant shipworm unearthed in Sultan Kudarat
An enormous black worm that lives in the mud of the sea floor and survives on the remnants of noxious gases digested by bacteria has been unveiled by scientists for the first time. The slimy giant shipworm can grow up to ...
- April 20, 2017
PH has sovereign rights over Benham Rise: Justice Carpio
While Benham Rise is not part of Philippine national territory, “we have sovereign rights over it because we have exclusive right to explore and exploit the oil, gas and other mineral resources in the area,” Supreme Court ...
- March 15, 2017
International call for Japan to that Antarctic whaling
The European Union and 12 other nations condemned Japan's Antarctic whaling program Monday, rejecting Tokyo's argument that the annual slaughter is for scientific research. Japan's whaling fleet left for the Southern Ocean ...
- December 19, 2017