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News stories for December 2006 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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31 December 2006
A Queenslander who has spent 50 years recording marine life in Australia and overseas is to be inducted into the International Scuba-Diving Hall of Fame. |
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30 December 2006
Scientists have discovered that an enormous ice shelf broke off an island in the Canadian Arctic last year, in what could be sign of global warming. |
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29 December 2006
The mysteries of the Antarctic deep will be probed by a new vessel capable of plunging 6.5km (four miles) down. Isis, the UK's first deep-diving remotely operated vehicle (ROV), will be combing the sea-bed in the region in its inaugural science mission. |
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28 December 2006
The Japanese eat 80% of the world's blue-fin tuna. The problem is that, like many other species, stocks of the fish are declining. |
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27 December 2006
Japan has labelled a group of anti-whaling activists "eco-terrorists." The activists are aboard a ship in Hobart getting ready to disrupt Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. |
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26 December 2006
On a sunny mid-October afternoon, Stanford University graduate student Chris Perle was out at sea, searching for a four-inch metallic gray object, resembling a small microphone with an antenna, adrift in the Pacific Ocean. |
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25 December 2006
Florida's endangered manatees died in 2006 at a pace that was nearly record-setting, state wildlife officials reported. The state's most recent tally on Dec. 8 showed 392 manatee deaths in Florida waters in 2006, about a dozen deaths shy of setting a grim new record. |
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24 December 2006
A special whale-watch alert went out yesterday -- one which could be a life-and-death matter for an eight-metre humpback. The fettered whale was last seen on Monday near Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula. |
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23 December 2006
The White Marlin, an imperiled billfish in the Atlantic Ocean, today took a significant step towards protection under the federal Endangered Species Act with the announcement of the launching of a formal status review of the species. |
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22 December 2006
A masked marauder has emerged unexpectedly from the ocean to rescue a dying coral reef from destruction in the nick of time.
With the dramatic flair of comic-book superhero Batman, a batfish has saved a coral reef... |
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21 December 2006
Two new studies by scientists at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University suggest that coral reefs may be in worse shape than previously thought. |
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20 December 2006
By absorbing half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, the oceans have a profound influence on climate. However, their ability to take up this carbon dioxide might be impaired as a result of climate change. |
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19 December 2006
UK fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw is set to join EU counterparts in Brussels for talks on annual catch limits. |
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18 December 2006
Chinese scientists said they will continue to search for the rare white-flag (baiji) dolphin although it is possibly extinct after a 38-day search failed to find any in the Yangtze River. |
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17 December 2006
The critical phytoplankton base of the ocean food web is shrinking as the world's seas warm. The discovery has scientists worried about how much food will grow in the future for the world's marine life. |
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16 December 2006
The world's oceans may rise by up to 140 centimeters (4 feet 7 inches) by 2100 due to global warming, a faster than expected increase that could threaten low-lying coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, a researcher said on Thursday. |
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15 December 2006
Great Keppel Island tourism operator Lyndie Malan says the area's marine turtles are under threat, especially the hatchlings. Lyndie says that usually they would only see one dead turtle every two years, but this year have seen nine carcasses on Keppel. |
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14 December 2006
In a bid to give right whales a break from ship strikes, the shipping lane into and out of Boston will be tweaked northward and narrowed. The shift was approved last week by a committee of the United Nations International Maritime Organization, or IMO, at a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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12 December 2006
The Arctic may be close to a tipping point that sees all-year-round ice disappear very rapidly in the next few decades, US scientists have warned. |
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11 December 2006
Creatures thriving at the hot and cold extremes of the marine environment have amazed scientists who are celebrating the discovery of 500 previously unknown species in the oceans in the past year. |
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10 December 2006
The Marine Fish Conservation Network yesterday thanked Congress for its efforts to strengthen the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, our nation’s primary ocean fisheries law. |
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09 December 2006
On December 8, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly adopted a broad international fisheries resolution that failed to include language that would have banned deep sea bottom trawling. Bottom trawling is a fishing method that involves commercial vessels dragging heavy nets across the sea floor. |
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08 December 2006
Microscopic particles of plastic could be poisoning the oceans, according to a British team of researchers. They report that small plastic pellets called "mermaids' tears", which are the result of industry and domestic waste, have spread across the world's seas. |
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07 December 2006
The Year of the Dolphin 2007, launched in Bonn on Monday, will be marked by an all-out effort to raise public awareness of threats to these marine mammals, such as entanglement in fishing nets and degradation of their habitats. |
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06 December 2006
A suba-diving professor at the University of Bedfordshire has been honoured with a top international award worth £6,000 to help him continue his research into climate change by studying the world's coral reefs. |
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05 December 2006
Great Barrier Reef shark populations are declining rapidly due to fishing according to research published in the December 5th issue of the journal Current Biology. The paper says that "no-take zones" can be effective in protecting sharks but only when the no-take regulations are strictly enforced. |
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04 December 2006
A Washington-based environmental group, whose partners include major US companies, considers the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas as probably "the highest marine priority area on Earth," according to the group's co-founder. |
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03 December 2006
Some of the world’s most spectacular species of whale are making a return to the seas around Britain after decades in decline. They include the fin whale, the second-largest animal in the world, nicknamed the “greyhound of the seas”... |
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02 December 2006
Shell's troubled Sakhalin II oil and gas project has received a further blow, after it was accused of ignoring the advice of a panel of scientists on protecting the rare Western Grey Whale. |
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01 December 2006
Former US president Bill Clinton will visit a tsunami-hit Moken village on Phuket island tomorrow as part of his final tour of the tsunami-affected region as the UN secretary-general's special envoy for tsunami recovery. |
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01 December 2006
Fifteen pilot whales are dead and rescuers are attempting to save 12 more in a mass stranding in North Western Tasmania. Parks And Wildlife staff rushed to Ocean Beach at Strahan at about 11.30am (AEDT) today after fishermen reported the stranding on a 150 metre stretch of beach. |
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