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Salmon farming in Dubai thrives
From a control room in the middle of Dubai’s desert, Norway’s sunrises and sunsets and the cool currents of the Atlantic are recreated for the benefit of thousands of salmon raised in tanks despite searing conditions ...
- November 20, 2019
Singapore resto stops 'grab-a-crab' stunt
A Singapore restaurant Thursday suspended a bizarre promotional stunt where customers use an arcade-style machine with a mechanical claw to catch live crabs after it sparked uproar online. A video of the pink machine, ...
- October 25, 2019
Dutch inventor's 'The Interceptor' to rid world's waters of plastic
A Dutch nonprofit group committed to ridding the world’s waters of plastic on Saturday unveiled its latest invention, a floating garbage-collection barge called “The Interceptor.” It is built by The Ocean Cleanup, which ...
- October 28, 2019
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
Trudeau raps Abe over commercial whaling
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) took issue with Japan’s plan to resume commercial whaling in a telephone call with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe. According to a statement from ...
- January 10, 2019
Humanity must rescue oceans to rescue itself, UN warns
Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth’s frozen spaces in ways that directly ...
- September 26, 2019
New species found in whale shark's mouth
A whale shark’s mouth might not seem like the most hospitable environment for a home, but Japanese researchers have found there’s no place like it for a newly-discovered shrimp-like creature. The tiny inhabitants — dubbed ...
- October 29, 2019
‘Super corals’ give glimmer of hope for world’s dying reefs
Hawaiian “super corals” that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world could be saved, a new study says. The research suggests that the gloomiest climate ...
- May 16, 2019