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Massive fishkill hits Australia
“Hundreds of thousands” of fish had died in drought-stricken Australia in the last few days and more mass deaths were likely to occur, the authorities warned Tuesday. Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a ...
- January 30, 2019
Brazil oil spill reaches other regions
Oil from a spill that has contaminated a stretch of Brazil’s coast was detected in Rio de Janeiro state, the navy said Saturday (Sunday in Manila), as President Jair Bolsonaro warned the country was preparing for the worst. ...
- November 25, 2019
S. Asia most dangerous for sea turtles - study
The waters around India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are home to the world’s most endangered sea turtles, according to a study released Thursday aimed at setting a blueprint for global conservation. While it was well known ...
- September 30, 2011
Rice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimp
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
Beijing protests US warship operation in South China Sea
China has voiced “strong dissatisfaction” after two US warships sailed by an island claimed by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, adding to simmering tensions in the strategic waterway. The foreign ministry issued a ...
- May 29, 2018
Deadly Fugu fish flub prompts Japan emergency warning
A Japanese city has activated an emergency warning system to alert residents to avoid eating locally purchased blowfish, after a mix-up saw toxic parts of the delicacy go on sale. A supermarket in Gamagori in central Japan ...
- January 17, 2018
Chinese ships in disputed waters
Chinese coastguard ships sailed into waters off Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea on Wednesday, officials said, after Tokyo’s annual defense paper warned over China’s “dangerous acts” near the disputed ...
- August 7, 2014
Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste
A network of tunnels under the snow contained everything from research facilities to a hospital, a cinema and a church — all powered by a small, portable nuclear reactor. The pollutants left behind include PCBs used in ...
- September 27, 2016
Choking air, melting glaciers changing India
India’s landscapes are changing – from the melt in the Himalayas, to the increasingly arid farm belts in the middle and the stunning coasts where fishermen talk of rising, warmer seas eroding their shores. “Changes in sea ...
- November 18, 2015
Global warming threatens jewels of nature and civilization
A warming climate is one of the principal menaces to the dazzling, 2,300-kilometer coral reef system off the coast of northeastern Australia known as the Great Barrier Reef. Home to thousands of species of fish and other ...
- December 10, 2015