Browsing Manila Bulletin by Place "California"

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    • Blue whales eat 10 million pieces of microplastic a day - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, November 3, 2022, on page 5)
      Blue whales consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, research estimated Tuesday, suggesting that the omnipresent pollution poses a bigger danger to the world's largest animal than previously thought. ...

    • Carbon dioxide threatens: Tropical coral reefs 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 3, 2000, on page B-11)
      As if there weren't already enough threats to coral refs, now scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have found that carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in seawater could be a direct threat to these ...

    • Fish farming a catastrophe for the environment - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, June 30, 2000, on page C-2)
      Fish farming, promoted as a smart way to help feed the world's surging population, is having a disastrous impact on the environment and on stocks of wild fish according to research published Thursday. Aquaculture is a ...

    • Massive boom hopes to corral Pacific Ocean’s plastic trash 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, September 13, 2018, on page B-8)
      Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific ...

    • Studying sea life for a super glue 

      Fountain, Henry (Manila Bulletin, April 24, 2010, on page 12)
      Along one wall of Russell J. Stewart’s laboratory at the University of Utah sits a saltwater tank containing a strange object: a rock-hard lump the size of a soccer ball, riddled with hundreds of small holes. It has the ...

    • White sharks found to migrate across the Pacific Ocean 

      Environmental News Network (Manila Bulletin, January 17, 2000, on page 14)
      A white shark mouths a plywood decoy of a seal placed in the water by researchers studying shark behavior near California's Año Nuevo reserve. The largest and most powerful predator in the sea, the great white shark, has ...