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News stories for July 2006 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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31 July 2006
Region-wide cooperation in the conservation of endangered marine turtles and coral reefs in the Gulf will be the focus of a regional conference to be held in Abu Dhabi in September this year. |
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30 July 2006
The popular 1960's television series "Flipper" may hold your image of the largely beloved dolphin. But in some parts of the world, dolphins are increasingly hunted for food and sport. According to recent statistics from the Wildlife Conservation Society, more than 20,000 small whales and dolphins are killed each year in Japan alone. |
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29 July 2006
When marine biologist Ron O'Dor hauled in a 15-kilogram squid from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico this month, he knew he had a big one: The animal had been tagged by his team with a tiny electronic sensor that collects detailed data about squid movement. |
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28 July 2006
Experts have clashed over the existence of Great White Sharks off the UK coast. Speculation is mounting amid a series of claimed sightings by holidaymakers and fishermen and a new documentary on BBC One on Sunday. |
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28 July 2006
Boats and manatees in Collier County’s coastal waters are about to get a lot more attention. Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are planning dozens of aerial surveys to look at boat traffic for the next year... |
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27 July 2006
first-of-its-kind survey of how well the world's coral reefs are being protected was made possible by a unique collection of NASA views from space. A team of international researchers using NASA satellite images compiled an updated inventory of all "marine protected areas". |
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26 July 2006
A shoal of 19 massive sunfish has been spotted off Cornwall — lured by Britain’s heatwave. The fish weigh up to 2.3 tons each and measure 15ft by 12ft. They normally live in the tropics but have been attracted by a hatch of huge jellyfish. |
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26 July 2006
According to a Japanese government report into its whale take in Antarctica over the summer, almost 60 per cent of all females killed were pregnant – effectively killing off the next generation, according to an environmental group. |
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25 July 2006
A New South Wales mid-north coast PhD student and her supervisor have taken out a patent on breeding sea anemones in captivity. Coffs Harbour-based Anna Scott, from the National Marine Science Centre, says a captive breeding program could be used to replenish reefs where sea anemones have come under threat. |
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24 July 2006
Scientists believe the current heat wave may be contributing to the unusually large numbers of whales and dolphins off Scotland's east coast. |
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24 July 2006
If the world continues to get warmer, vast amounts of methane gas trapped under the sea could belch up and worsen climate change, according to a study published last week in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, a climate science publication. |
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23 July 2006
Power from two reactors at a Japanese nuclear power plant had to be reduced after the water intake system shut down automatically when jellyfish blocked a filter in a seawater cooling system. |
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21 July 2006
Action is needed to conserve mangroves in the Pacific amid concern that rising sea levels, linked with climate change, are set to drown large areas of these precious and economically important ecosystems, the United Nations Environment Programme said today citing new research. |
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21 July 2006
Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. This is the view of 19 of the world's most eminent biodiversity specialists, who have called on governments to establish a political framework to save the planet. |
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20 July 2006
A new earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday as rescue workers continued uncovering bodies from a tsunami earlier in the week that killed at least 528 people. |
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19 July 2006
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has begun the removal of an estimated 129 tons of marine debris from the main Hawaiian Islands. This begins the second stage of a project aimed at reducing the presence of marine debris on Hawaiian shores. |
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18 July 2006
A tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages on the Indonesian island of Java on Monday, killing at least 100 people, leaving scores more missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground, witnesses and officials said. |
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17 July 2006
Two decades ago, the channels that separate the Adriatic Islands here were brimming with giant bluefin tuna, a species so plentiful that tourists used to climb ladders by the sea to watch the schools swim by. |
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16 July 2006
With the world’s polar regions playing on a global scale the role of a canary in a coal mine – providing early warnings on human-induced climate change – the United Nations is supporting a two-year scientific mission to the Arctic that got underway last week. |
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15 July 2006
A group of bottlenose dolphins that swam up a New Zealand river four days ago, apparently to escape killer whales, have returned to the sea, a conservation official said on Saturday. |
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14 July 2006
Norway's whaling fleet will catch only half of its quota this season. The government set a quota of 1052 minke whales, but so far only 444 have been landed. Industry spokesmen predict the final tally for the April to August season will be about 500, and say bad weather earlier in the year prevented hunting. |
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13 July 2006
If people are horrified by the images of the whales being harpooned in the Southern Ocean, they'd be equally repulsed by the thousands of dolphins and other creatures that are being entangled and killed by fisherman using huge illegal driftnets each season in the Mediterranean. |
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12 July 2006
Our oceans and seas are in deep trouble, and if the Japanese government is to be believed, part of the blame rests with the whales. This is nonsense, of course. The degradation and resource depletion that threaten marine ecosystems worldwide are solely due to human activity. |
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12 July 2006
A recent spate of small turtles washing up on Australia's eastern shores has highlighted concerns about marine debris by scientists and animal welfare groups. Two turtles, one found on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland and a second found at Fingal Head NSW have triggered alarm bells. |
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11 July 2006
Biomedical researchers who dove down nearly 3,000 feet to search a newly discovered coral reef found treasures they say may help doctors fight cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses. |
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10 July 2006
The only documented white humpback whale in the world has been sighted off the coast of Byron Bay as it migrates along the coast of Australia. |
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08 July 2006
Antarctic Treaty countries failed on Friday to agree on tighter environmental measures to protect the continent amid a boom in tourism. The growing number of tourists landing in Antarctica, mainly from cruise ships, has raised fears over the impact it could have on the continent's fragile ecology. |
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07 July 2006
The US Senate unanimously approved a bill to revamp management of the nation's marine fisheries and strengthen protections against overfishing of dwindling stocks. The bill requires the use of annual catch limits and enhances the authority of eight regional fishery management councils... |
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06 July 2006
Denmark is to set up seven unmanned measuring stations along the edge of Greenland's vast ice cap, to monitor how fast the frozen sheet covering the massive island is thinning, Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard announced recently. |
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05 July 2006
As porpoises dance in the distance, divers prepare to sink beneath the chop to find the buried treasure below. It's early on a Sunday morning and these divers from a club in Moncton are eager to check out HMCS Saguenay, sunk as an artificial reef in 1994. |
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04 July 2006
Efforts to build up eroded beaches along Florida's Gulf Coast have collided with mating season for several species of threatened and endangered turtles. The turtles are protected by strict federal endangered species regulations. |
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03 July 2006
Speed limits can help save endangered whales. At least that’s the hope of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Staff members have proposed a rule describing regulations to restrict large-vessel speed along the Northeast coast of the USA to help protect the endangered right whale. |
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02 July 2006
Using a series of international aid ‘bribes’ to countries without coasts, Japan is turning the tide on what was once a conservation success story. The impossible seems likely. The ban on commercial whale hunting, the most successful conservation measure of the 20th century, is in danger of being overturned, if not in a few years then within a human lifespan. |
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01 July 2006
The city of Cape Town wants the expansion of the Great White shark cage diving industry stopped until scientific evidence irrefutably shows that it does not increase the risk of shark attacks or harm the shark ecology. So says the City in comment on the draft Great White Shark Cage Diving Policy and Regulations. |
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01 July 2006
The grandson of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau has escaped the "Jaws" of death. Fabien Cousteau almost lost his life when he set out for a close encounter with great white sharks off the coast of Mexico. |
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01 July 2006
A deep sea fish is being used to create ice-cream with less fat and calories.
A protein from the blood of the pout fish can lower the temperature at which ice-crystals form, meaning less cream or fat is needed in the final product. |
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