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News stories for January 2007 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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31 January 2007
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society are concerned to learn that US Navy has been granted exemption by the Pentagon from a major piece of environmental legislation which protects marine mammals – for the next two years. |
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30 January 2007
Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of the effects of global warming, according to a leaked report. The study warns that the organisms which make up the reef's coral could be bleached, because of warmer seas. |
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29 January 2007
Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, a new book from the University of California explores the role of whales in ocean ecosystems, the book looks at the effects of industrial whaling and its ecological impact on the world's oceans. |
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28 January 2007
Conservationists are calling for compassion to be shown towards great white sharks after an Australian diver was attacked in waters south of Sydney and survived. |
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27 January 2007
President Bush on Friday proposed an 8 percent increase in the $1.75 billion federal budget for coastal and marine conservation programs. The president hopes "to clean up our oceans and coastlines," said Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez... |
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26 January 2007
ADB is helping the Philippines strengthen its fragile marine ecosystem through a $33.8 million loan for a project to improve coastal resource management and boost livelihoods of fisherfolk. |
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25 January 2007
Nothing highlights Japan's insatiable hunger for tuna like the fish aisle at a supermarket - brick-size chucks of savory red meat, trays of delicately sliced sashimi and shelf-loads of sushi rolls. |
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24 January 2007
They say time and tide wait for no man, and it's safe to say that few people understand this truism as well as diver and explorer Dr. Greg Stone, one of 12 individuals recently named a National Geographic Adventure Hero of 2006. |
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23 January 2007
An Australian diver has escaped from the jaws of a Great White shark which had grabbed him by the head. Eric Nerhus, 41, was diving off Cape Howe on Australia's south-east coast when he was attacked. |
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23 January 2007
Tuna are fast disappearing, with important stocks at high risk of commercial extinction due to weak management, warns a WWF briefing ahead of the first meeting of government members of the world’s five tuna management organizations. |
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22 January 2007
Coastguard officials hope to begin pumping 3,500 tonnes of oil from the stricken ship MSC Napoli to prevent more fuel leaking into the sea. Some 200 tonnes of oil have already leaked from the cargo vessel, which is beached off the Devon coast. |
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21 January 2007
An earthquake measuring 7.3 has struck near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck in the Molucca Sea at 1927 (1127 GMT), some 160km (99 miles) south-east of the city of Manado. |
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20 January 2007
The world’s fish stocks would be under grave threat, if trade is liberalised in the fisheries sector, according to evidence revealed in a new Greenpeace report. |
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19 January 2007
Indonesia and perhaps Australia risk more droughts because of shifts in Indian Ocean temperatures and stronger monsoons widely linked to global warming, scientists say. |
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18 January 2007
The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. |
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17 January 2007
The top UN official on climate change says the failure of world leaders to agree on global warming means it is time for the UN to take the lead. |
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16 January 2007
A rare mangrove terrapin, a species of turtle that has not been seen in the wild in Thailand for over 20 years, has been caught by a fisherman in the western part of the country. |
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16 January 2007
Ralph, one of four rescued whale sharks at the Georgia Aquarium, died last Thursday after he apparently fell ill, the aquarium said. The whale shark is the second popular animal to die at the aquarium in a nine-day period. |
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15 January 2007
Climate change is disturbing the food supply of the harbour porpoise, one of Britain's sea mammals, research shows. Scientists found that the number of sandeels available each spring for porpoises to eat has declined |
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14 January 2007
Two endangered Hector's dolphins have washed up dead on South Island beaches, weeks after the Government introduced measures to stop the rare dolphins being accidentally killed in recreational set nets. |
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13 January 2007
California state coastal regulators voted last week to impose restrictions on the U.S. Navy's use of sonar, which has been linked to harmful effects on whales and other marine mammals. |
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12 January 2007
A preliminary report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) says there were 416 manatee deaths in state waters in 2006. That compares to 396 in 2005. Scientists are unsure as to whether the increase reflects manatee population growth, increased mortality or better detection of carcasses. |
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11 January 2007
Scientists have discovered that a fish species on the Australian Great Barrier Reef can sniff its way back to the patch of reef where it hatched.
If the cardinal fish's remarkable odour-assisted homing abilities are common, the researchers suggest it might help to explain the diversity of marine life on coral reefs. |
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10 January 2007
Coral reefs are normally associated with tropical waters, but maritime researchers have found unique forests of it in deep and cold seas off the northern Norwegian coast. Efforts are being made to protect it. |
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08 January 2007
Blue whale conservation in Chile has received a boost with a seal of approval from the country’s president. Chilean President Michelle Bachelete conferred the Bicentennial Seal — a national award recognizing initiatives that have made a significant contribution to Chile’s development. |
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08 January 2007
Scotland's marine life could be almost wiped out within 50 years unless tough action is taken to manage the way humans use the seas, a consortium of environmental organisations has warned. They called for a new marine planning system designed to control developments |
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07 January 2007
Climate change scientists predict that 2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, beating the current record set in 1998. Calling it a "startling forecast," scientists at the British Meteorological Office said Thursday that the potential for a record 2007 arises from an El Nino warming pattern already established in the Pacific. |
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06 January 2007
Penguins living on the Patagonian coast of South America face starvation just like their cartoon counterparts in the hit children’s film Happy Feet, only with no happy ending. |
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05 January 2007
At least six whales have died since July as a result of digging under the sea to create a shipping route off India’s southern coast, proving that the controversial plan hurts the environment, activists said. |
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05 January 2007
Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. |
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04 January 2007
Newborn seal pups are getting into difficulties along the Irish coast because of stormy weather. Seal sanctuary staff at Exploris, the Northern Ireland Aquarium based at Portaferry on Strangford Lough, said it was running at full capacity. |
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03 January 2007
The pelicans gather each afternoon, cute, gawky and hungry. They flap and flop awkwardly among the mangrove roots as Juan Leon, a worker at the Florida Keys Wild Bird Center, tosses them fish to supplement their natural diet. |
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02 January 2007
The anti-whaling activists of Sea Shepherd have unveiled a new secret weapon as they depart for the Southern Ocean to try to put the Japanese whalers out of business — the rules. |
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01 January 2007
Wave goodbye to 2006. Oh, and with it the white-fin dolphin. It's gone, too. Another year, another species. A team of 25 scientists recently searched the Yangtze River, the dolphin's only home, and could find not a one. |
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01 January 2007
The US has proposed listing polar bears as a threatened species because of declining Arctic ice levels. It is the first time the US has made a direct link between global warming and the threat to a species. |
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