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News stories for August 2007 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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31 August 2007
People have been warned to stay away from basking sharks after one was found dead in a fishing net in Cornwall and another injured. |
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30 August 2007
Imagine yourself in class on the ocean floor at the world's only underwater laboratory, A robotic fish named "Fetch" swims by collecting data, while a team of "aquanauts" amazes you with high-tech experiments in coral reef ecology. |
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29 August 2007
NASA scientists have detected the first signs that tropical rainfall is on the rise with the longest and most complete data record available. |
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28 August 2007
Responsibility for setting limits on fishing-related sea lion deaths would move from the Fisheries Ministry to the Conservation Department under new proposals to manage the threatened species. |
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27 August 2007
The New Zealand public wants a set nets ban and the establishment of a marine mammal sanctuary to protect the critically endangered maui's dolphin. |
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26 August 2007
Man-made underwater noise threatens the health and reproductive capacity of many fish and marine mammals, an Italian researcher says.
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25 August 2007
World Champion breath-hold diver Martin Stepanek and teammate Niki Roderick are partnering with the ocean conservation group Oceana leading up to their World Record freediving attempts next week. |
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24 August 2007
Killer whales swimming through spilled diesel fuel in the Robson Bight ecological reserve are at risk of health problems ranging from lung lesions to death, says a Department of Fisheries and Oceans research scientist. |
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23 August 2007
A modest new lab at the Rosenstiel School is the first of its kind to tackle the global problem of climate change impacts on corals. Fully operational this month, this new lab has begun to study how corals respond to the combined stress of greenhouse warming and ocean acidification. |
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22 August 2007
An alert was issued by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) yesterday after a Portugese Man-o'-War was washed up on Porthmeor Beach at St Ives, Cornwall. |
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21 August 2007
Tougher laws aimed at protecting animals and their habitats come into force this week. Britain has strengthened legislation through the Habitats Regulations and new Offshore Marine Conservation Regulations to fall into line with EU laws. |
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20 August 2007
Pesticides from agricultural sediment run-off are contaminating the Great Barrier Reef and infecting marine life, reports the Whitsunday Times. Cancer causing pollutants have been detected in eight of the Reef parks ten major rivers leeching poison, a report from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says. |
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19 August 2007
Downing St has said its climate change targets are "ambitious" but it remains fully committed to renewable energy. It was responding to a report in the Guardian that officials had told ministers the UK would miss EU targets by a wide margin. |
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18 August 2007
Sarasota's Mote Marine Laboratory will shared in a $1.5 million grant from the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund to help save bottlenose dolphins from becoming entangled in discarded fishing gear. |
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17 August 2007
Marine experts have criticised people who snapped wobbly film footage which, it was claimed, was evidence of a Great White shark swimming in Cornish waters. |
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16 August 2007
Australian scientists have discovered a giant underwater current that is one of the last missing links of a system that connects the world's oceans and helps govern global climate. |
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15 August 2007
There are large numbers of basking sharks and some dolphins off the Cornwall coast but no fearsome great white sharks, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said today. |
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14 August 2007
Arctic sea ice is expected to retreat to a record low by the end of this summer, scientists have predicted. Measurements made by NSIDC showed the extent of sea ice was almost 30% below the long-term average. |
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13 August 2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed a network of marine zones in the federal waters of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The federal water marine zones, which will protect marine habitats and sensitive species, went into effect on July 29, 2007. |
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12 August 2007
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often hailed as a way to halt serious declines in the abundance of marine species that have been over-fished. |
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11 August 2007
U.S. marine scientists have discovered coral reefs in the central and western Pacific Ocean are dying faster than previously thought. |
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10 August 2007
At least $300 million needs to be spent urgently to clean up millions of tonnes of mud and chemical pollution pouring into the Great Barrier Reef every year, to boost the reef's immunity to climate change, according to a new report from WWF. |
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09 August 2007
A freshwater dolphin found only in China is now "likely to be extinct", a team of scientists has concluded. The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals' habitat. |
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08 August 2007
Fishing wiped out Atlantic Bluefin tuna stocks in Northern Europe 50 years ago, according to a new study, while ongoing pressure on the remaining stocks is pushing the entire species to the edge of extinction, writes Stephen Leahy for IPS. |
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07 August 2007
Two submersed diver-training platforms at a popular beach north of Jeddah have been destroyed in an apparent act of vandalism that is believed to have been committed by a team of divers. |
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06 August 2007
The secrets of the bluefin tuna's migration have been unlocked by one of the most comprehensive studies of the giant fish, say scientists. Researchers believe two separate populations of the fish share feeding sites in the Atlantic before heading to opposite sides of the ocean to breed. |
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05 August 2007
A new study published in the Annual Review of Oceanography and Marine Biology examines the drastic decline of coastal marine habitats across Europe and calls for regulatory changes to improve their protection. |
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04 August 2007
US President George W Bush has announced that his government will host a multinational conference on climate change in Washington next month. |
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03 August 2007
Russian explorers dived deep below the North Pole in two submersibles yesterday and planted a national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of the Arctic. |
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02 August 2007
For all these years, the goal of Discovery's programming has been to blend the interest in the horror-story appeal of sharks -- the "Jaws" effect, if you will -- with the very real need to educate the public about conservation of the critters. |
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01 August 2007
The Marine Conservation Society has today welcomed Iceland's decision to slash the country's cod quota by nearly a third. As of 1 September, cod quotas have been reduced by 31 per cent to allow stocks to recover. |
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01 August 2007
An Australian shark expert has fuelled speculation that a man-eating great white shark is circling in waters off England's Cornish coast. Local have played down fears that a shark fin spotted by holidaymakers belongs to a great white. |
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