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News stories for May 2006 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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31 May 2006
Former US vice-president Al Gore owned up to failing to get his climate change message across as a politician when he appeared at the Hay Festival. In his first UK speech on the subject, Mr Gore promised to devote himself to the task of warning people about the impending "planetary emergency". |
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31 May 2006
The larvae of fish, contrary to popular belief, are not simply swept along on dominant currents through the Hawaiian Islands. Research under way in both the main and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is increasingly showing that you can't make generalizations about where larvae go. |
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30 May 2006
When coral reefs are bleached out, they may never recover, according to the first report on the long-term impact of a 1998 global warming event in the Indian Ocean that damaged the reefs of the Seychelles' Inner Islands. Fish species that depended on the damaged reefs are already locally extinct, the study found. |
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29 May 2006
When death strikes a coral reef, whether from an oil spill off Mexico or sediment unleashed by a dam bursting in Hawaii, marine biologists at the scene know what to look for, but not how to report and preserve their findings so they will hold up in court. |
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28 May 2006
Three-dimensional computer models developed by a group of Hawai'i scientists predict that some of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands could lose as much as 65 percent of their area by the end of the century if sea levels continue to rise. |
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27 May 2006
The contractor who destroyed a coral reef at Malaysia’s top dive spot of Sipadan by scraping over it with a barge has got off with an apology and the cost of a clean-up, a report said yesterday. Authorities in eastern Sabah state where Sipadan is located had initially considered closing the island. |
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26 May 2006
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world, naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said. The veteran broadcaster said scientific data clearly showed that human-induced climate change was now beyond doubt. |
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25 May 2006
Humans may try to stay healthy by avoiding co-workers with the sniffles — but Caribbean spiny lobsters have an even better tactic, steering clear of sick lobsters before they show any symptoms. Scientists were intrigued by the fact that more than 60 per cent of young lobsters die within days if confined in a lab with other lobsters that have the deadly virus PaV1. |
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24 May 2006
The endangered loggerhead turtle may face a greater threat than previously realised from longline fishing. Researchers found that many turtles spend considerably longer in the open ocean, where longline boats operate, than earlier studies had indicated. |
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23 May 2006
This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be "above normal", according to the US climate agency. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) predicts there will be 13-16 named storms, four of which will be "major storms". But it says 2006 will be less active than last year's record-breaking season... |
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22 May 2006
Josef Stalin is creating jobs in the Arctic as Norway seeks to halt a "Red Army" of monster crabs that some experts fear could sweep as far south as the Mediterranean. Hundreds of Norwegian and Russian fishing boats are making big profits from the king crabs... |
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21 May 2006
In its claim to be the country’s most eco-friendly resort, El Nido Resorts in Palawan recently held an eco-reef installation at Tres Marias, a former coral reef and dive site which has been badly damaged by dynamite and other forms of illegal fishing near Miniloc Island. |
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20 May 2006
Al Gore's global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is the latest in a line of films, TV shows and news features warning of a impending global catastrophe caused by human-induced climate change. Yet according to a new study published by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), the most inconvenient truth is that the science behind these claims is fatally flawed. |
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19 May 2006
The World Wildlife Fund conservation group has accused organisations set up to control deep-sea fishing of failing to protect fish stocks. In a report it said overfishing in international waters was driving some species - including tuna - to the verge of extinction. |
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18 May 2006
A $240m partnership to boost Africa's nearly depleted fish stocks was launched on Tuesday in bid to improve food security in the world's poorest continent. The project was launched by the African Union (AU), the World Bank, the GCO and the FAO. |
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17 May 2006
More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis. The exercise began with a mock alert at the Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii. |
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16 May 2006
Rising ocean temperatures look set to cause lasting devastation to coral reef systems, a study suggests. An international team of researchers looked at reefs in the Seychelles, where an ocean warming event in 1998 killed much of the live coral. |
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15 May 2006
The Christian Aid charity has warned that 184 million people in Africa alone could die as a result of climate change before the end of the century. Climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict could reverse recent gains in reducing poverty, it says. Its report says rich nations must aid poorer ones to adopt non-fossil-fuel energy sources such as solar power. |
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14 May 2006
Kemp`s ridley sea turtles almost became extinct, but 50 nestings have been recorded in Texas and more than 4,000 eggs recovered for incubation this year. Preservationists are growing more and more optimistic that a project to save the species from extinction is paying off. |
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13 May 2006
More than 100 dead Magellan penguins, coated in oil, have been washed up on the southern coast of Argentina. Some 200 other penguins survived and are being treated and cleaned before being released. Authorities have implemented an emergency plan patrolling the coastline. |
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11 May 2006
A curious Dunedin boy could be $10,000 richer after finding a smelly, waxy lump that was spat out by a sperm whale that swam past coastal Otago. Robbie Anderson, 10, was walking his dog Scud along Long Beach, near Purakaunui, when he spied "something that looked unusual" in the sand. |
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10 May 2006
Concentrations of the natural pigment chlorophyll in coastal waters have been shown to rise prior to earthquakes. These chlorophyll increases are due to blooms of plankton, which use the pigment to convert solar energy to chemical energy via photosynthesis. |
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09 May 2006
The first week in May marked the emergence of the first hatchlings from leatherback turtles nesting on Sandy Point, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. If this year follows recent trends, it will continue one of the most positive turns for these endangered turtles, according to findings published in Biological Conservation. |
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08 May 2006
Two coral species in Florida and the Caribbean now have a spot on the federal threatened list because of dangers posed by human activity, hurricanes and higher water temperatures. The elkhorn and staghorn coral species have suffered a 97 percent decline in areas off the Florida Keys and in the Caribbean... |
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08 May 2006
Greg Kaufman says his whale-watching boat was doing everything by the book: cruising below 13 knots and staying 100 yards from any visible humpback as a crew member scanned the ocean atop a lookout. Still, it wasn't enough to prevent the Pacific Whale Foundation vessel from running over a calf that surged from underneath. |
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07 May 2006
Advanced SCUBA divers can now assist scientists in one of several marine research projects at the Little Cayman Research Centre (LCRC), following a successful pilot programme in 2005. LCRC is a project of CCMI to sustain the biodiversity of coral reefs through research and education. |
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06 May 2006
The Federal Government has announced the creation of 13 new marine parks off Australia's south-eastern coast, totalling an area almost as big as the state of Victoria. The parks will preserve more than 220,000 square kilometres of ocean... |
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05 May 2006
A three-week voyage of discovery in the Atlantic has returned with tiny animals which appear new to science. They include waif-like plankton with delicate translucent bodies related to jellyfish, hundreds of microscopic shrimps, and several kinds of fish. |
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04 May 2006
A scientific report commissioned by the US government has concluded there is "clear evidence" of climate change caused by human activities. The report, from the federal Climate Change Science Program, said trends seen over the last 50 years "cannot be explained by natural processes alone". It found that temperatures have increased in the lower atmosphere as well as at the Earth's surface. |
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03 May 2006
A 900-pound leatherback sea turtle named Dingle after the Irish resort town where she was rescued and satellite-tagged last year is a real traveler. Eight months ago, the turtle became snared in lobster pots off Dingle, Ireland. She was rescued with out injury, tagged and released. |
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03 May 2006
The United Nations denied Monday that the appointment of a new environment director was linked to his presence on a jury that awarded U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan a $500,000 environmental prize. Achim Steiner was appointed by Annan to head the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Program in March. |
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02 May 2006
At least 400 dead dolphins were found on Zanzibar's northern coastline early Friday, April 28, 2006, alarming villagers, fishermen and tour operators, residents said. It was not immediately clear what killed the dolphins, whose carcasses were found along a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) stretch of Nungwi, a popular tourist destination |
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02 May 2006
North Carolina fisheries officials plan to take a bite at the federal government by reopening state waters to shark fishing. A state closure was implemented in 1997 to protect juvenile sharks, at the request of the National Marine Fisheries Service, in anticipation that other states would do the same... |
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01 May 2006
More than 26,000 species of animals, birds, plants and fish will this week be added to the list of those in serious danger of extinction. Thousands of species including the common hippotamus are to be added or moved up the so-called "red list" drawn up by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).
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01 May 2006
Global warming and other threats are killing coral reefs through a phenomenon known as bleaching. But why do some corals survive? A new study, published in Nature, is the first to document a trait that helps some coral species live through, and recover from, bleaching. |
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01 May 2006
A Malaysian state is to drop its symbol and sports mascot - the turtle - amid allegations by conservationists of embarrassment at the creature's demise. Three of the four species for which Terengganu is known, including the giant Leatherback, are on the verge of extinction in the Pacific. |
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