Tag: Ocean

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Ocean life to disappear if climate change not addressed, study warns

  

  According to the findings of a study published Thursday in Science, if climate change is not curbed in time, the oceans will suffer a mass extinction as they did some 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period when a meteorite and volcanoes wiped out life on Earth.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Devils of the deep: How jumbo squids survive freezing cold, oxygen-deprived waters

  

  By Hanane Hadj-Moussa and Kenneth B Storey, Carleton University, Canada – Humans are a picky species. We are happiest in a near-constant environment and experience severe and often fatal injuries if our core temperature falls below 25 C or if the oxygen content of the air drops below 10%. Many other species, however, live in almost constant change.

• Friday, July 19th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Giant manta ray asks for help with fishing hooks below its eye

  

  A giant manta ray with several fishing hooks caught below its eye appeared to ask two nearby divers for help in removing them and then waited patiently for them to do so.

• Saturday, May 4th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Antarctic Tour Operators introduce mandatory measures to prevent whale strikes

  

  Members of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) have unanimously voted in mandatory measures to prevent whale strikes in cetacean-rich Antarctic waters during their annual meeting this year held in Cape Town, South Africa.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 17:23 UTC

  In a broadcast 124m below sea level, Seychelles president calls for better protection of oceans

  

  The Seychelles president has gone below the surface of the Indian Ocean to call for better protection for the world's seas. Danny Faure said that a healthy ocean was “crucial for the survival of humanity” in a broadcast made 124m (406ft) below sea level. He had joined a British-led expedition exploring the ocean's depths.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Falkland Islands Seven (and main) Wonders for Visitors: the spectacular wildlife

  

  Perhaps fittingly the King Penguin was chosen as number one in the Falkland Islands Tourist Board’s (FITB) 7 Wonders of the Falklands survey. Over the last three months FITB has asked past and present visitors to the Islands, as well as residents, what they would consider to be their seven wonders.

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Pro and anti-whaling nations clash in Brazil; renewed attempt to create a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary

  

  Pro and anti-whaling nations are set for a showdown when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets in Brazil from Monday as Japan leads an assault on a three-decade old moratorium on commercial whale hunting. Tokyo heads into the biennial meeting as chair of the 88-nation body determined to shake-up what it says is a dysfunctional organization mired in dispute and unable to make key decisions.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Falklands' penguins at risk from Brexit and an end to EU conservation funding

  

  The Falkland Islands have warned that a million penguins are at risk from a funding black hole caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union. The Islands rely on European conservation projects to care and protect the penguin colonies, rookeries, in its shores. But with the U.K. fast approaching Brexit Day in March 2019, Falklands' lawmaker Teslyn Barkman has urged clarity on the future of Islands’ flippered friends.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  UK funding to fight plastic pollution in St Helena and conservation projects in BOTs

  

  The United Kingdom government has announced a package of funding and support for UK Overseas Territories. The new projects will see a scheme to reduce and monitor plastic pollution on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic and a new data collecting and reporting system for Montserrat to help create long-term sustainable fisheries.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 13:12 UTC

  Chile bans bottom sea trawling in 98% of its EEZ to protect marine environment

  

  Chile's Under secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture, SUBPESCA, and Oceana Chile jointly announced the freezing of the fishing footprint for the common hake and demersal crustacean fisheries. This means that 98% of Chile's exclusive economic zone, EEZ, will be protected from bottom trawling.