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News stories for March 2010 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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17 March 2010
Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests. |
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17 March 2010
China, Japan and Russia helped defeat a U.S.-endorsed proposal at a U.N. wildlife trade meeting Tuesday that would have boosted conservation efforts for sharks, expressing concern it would hurt poor nations and should be the responsibility of regional fisheries bodies. |
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16 March 2010
Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found. |
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15 March 2010
An international scientific team has returned to New Zealand with data showing whales can be researched without being killed. |
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15 March 2010
Friday in Jakarta for information technology assistance in biodiversity enhancement research. “The cooperation with Microsoft is an initial step for the development of Wakatobi regency,” Wakatobi Regent Hugua said. |
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14 March 2010
The whaling season has ended, but there is still much happening in the world of the Sea Shepherd crew. |
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13 March 2010
Australia has agreed to help New Caledonia protect its massive coral reef, the world's second largest after Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. |
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13 March 2010
Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the two-week CITES meeting that opens this weekend in Doha, Qatar. |
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12 March 2010
A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change. It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007. |
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12 March 2010
The run-up to the Oscars are a heady time for nominees: a whirlwind of screenings, cocktails, celebrity encounters and, for the makers of this year's prize winning eco-documentary, secret meetings in the parking lot of a sushi restaurant with federal investigators. |
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12 March 2010
There has been protest in Japan over a proposed ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a day after the European Union agreed to back the plan. |
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11 March 2010
EU nations have decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover. The bloc has agreed to back a motion for a ban during next week's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). |
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11 March 2010
With loggerhead nestings on Atlantic beaches continuing to trend down, federal scientists have proposed the sea turtles' designation be changed from "threatened" to the more critical "endangered." |
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10 March 2010
A conservation group in NZ is urging the government to be more cautious in managing and setting fish catch levels. |
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10 March 2010
The diver pushes on the Great White’s snout as the 4.6m (15ft) female homes in on the diving cage. Photographer Don Carpenter first got this close-up of the fish, above, before it swam over to check out his dive buddy in another cage. |
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10 March 2010
The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week. |
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09 March 2010
At least 170,000 endangered female Olive Ridley turtles have laid their eggs in the protected Gahirmatha sanctuary, a famed nesting site in coastal Orissa, during the past 11 days, an official said Saturday. |
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09 March 2010
Sharks, many of which migrate across international boundaries, are among the world's oldest species of animals. Their biological and ecological characteristics make them particularly vulnerable to overexploitation. |
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09 March 2010
Anti-whaling activists in Australia say their recent campaign in the Southern Ocean against Japanese whaling ships was the most successful ever. |
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09 March 2010
The Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory will honor Kathryn D. Sullivan--oceanographer, astronaut, educator, and UCSC alumna--at the Global Oceans Awards Gala on Saturday, March 13. The award recognizes Sullivan for her outstanding contributions to the understanding and conservation of the oceans. |
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08 March 2010
Red grouper are known for a few key characteristics -- their hue, which can range from pink to bright orange and their predation method, in which they ambush fellow sea creatures and swallow them whole. |
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07 March 2010
It must have required many lonely months out to sea to mistake this face only a mother could love for that of a fair maiden, but encounters with dugongs are indeed said to have been the inspiration for the myth of the mermaid. |
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07 March 2010
The giant rubbish collection, known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," lies between California and Hawaii and has been gradually growing over the last 60 years. |
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06 March 2010
More than 275,000 people and leading scientific and conservation organisations from the UK and around the world have called on the UK government to establish a protected area in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is comprised of the Chagos Islands and its surrounding waters. |
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06 March 2010
In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids. |
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05 March 2010
Australia looks set to go head-to-head with some of its former allies at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Morocco. |
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05 March 2010
Google has just released a pretty cool new tour that features the 2010 Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation. |
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04 March 2010
Three Australian scientists have each received a prestigious award for their work in marine research. The Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation is considered one of the world's top gongs for recognising innovative work aimed at keeping the oceans healthy. |
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04 March 2010
"The world's coral reefs will begin to disintegrate before the end of the century as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere make the oceans more acidic, scientists warn." |
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04 March 2010
Conservationists and wildlife experts are understandably worried about the massive decline in the mass nesting colonies of Olive Ridley turtles in India. |
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03 March 2010
"Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act."
- The End of the Line |
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03 March 2010
So what do you think: should the Chagos Islands archipelago be turned into a marine reserve, or shouldn't it? If you care either way, you have until the end of the week to give the UK government your views. |
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02 March 2010
Readers of Scuba Diving magazine have voted Australia the best country in the Pacific for anyone who wants to go diving without needing to set foot on a boat. |
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02 March 2010
The Sri Lankan government says that it is concerned about the welfare of sea turtles which live and breed on the island's southern coastline. The authorities say turtle hatcheries are operating there which contravene conservation laws and that they will prosecute those people involved. |
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02 March 2010
In late 2007, during the preparation for the World Ocean Conference (WOC) in Jakarta, the national committee paid a visit to Jusuf Kalla, then the vice president of RI, to inform him of this initiative. |
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01 March 2010
Countries and coastal communities may eventually be paid to preserve their seas to help fight climate change, as a result of an agreement just made in Bali. |
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01 March 2010
A vast iceberg that broke off eastern Antarctic earlier this month could disrupt marine life in the region, scientists have warned. |
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