Tag: Pacific Ocean

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 00:24 UTC

  Colombia tells Bolivia it deserves to have access to the Pacific Ocean

  

  Colombia has consistently supported Bolivia in its mission to reclaim a passage to the Pacific Ocean and the country reiterated its support last week during a meeting between the two heads of state in Bogotá.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 09:57 UTC

  Pacific male humpback whales change their mating songs over a two year period

  

  Male humpback whales have their own version of the hit parade, researchers say. Within regional populations of the whales, males all sing the same mating song. But the pattern of the song changes over time, with new versions spreading across the ocean and nearly always from west to east, according to the study published online this month in the journal Current Biology.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 20:14 UTC

  Bolivia considering international court to claim coastline lost to Chile

  

  Bolivia is prepared to take Chile to the International court of The Hague over its claim to a section of Pacific coast that it lost in a war more than 130 years ago, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 16:41 UTC

  High level talks with Chile for a Pacific outlet for landlocked Bolivia

  

  Chile and Bolivia begin talks Monday in La Paz on a 13 point agenda agreed in 2006 and which among other issues includes the landlocked country’s aspiration to recover its outlet to the Pacific lost during a regional war in 1879.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2010 - 21:23 UTC

  Chile and Bolivia meet in La Paz to discuss maritime dispute

  

  Chilean and Bolivian Foreign Ministers gathered in La Paz, Bolivia on Monday to discuss resolving a decades-old maritime dispute.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 00:33 UTC

  Falklands’ scientists detect North Pacific Ocean species in South Atlantic

  

  Deep sea fish species found in the North Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic in Falkland Islands waters. It is unclear how the animals, a giant rattail grenadier, pelagic eelpout and deep sea squid, travelled so far, according to a report by Matt Walker, Editor of Earth News.