- Anti-poaching task force set up to save marine turtles
KOTA KINABALU: A special marine turtle anti-poaching task force has been formed in view of the worsening cases of poaching in the state. “This is…
- Tanzania: Anti-Poaching Drive Cripples Ivory Syndicates
FOLLOWING the success of a covert anti-poaching operation, dubbed Spider Net and the arrest of some of the big traders in ivory, it is feared…
- Fukushima radiation has reached North American shores
Seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has reached North America. Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution detected small amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137…
- How the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Destroying the Oceans and the Future for Marine Life
Twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches for hundreds of miles across the North Pacific Ocean and is one of the…
- Fukushima Radiation Found in Sample of Green Tea from Japan
Four years after the multiple explosions and melt-downs at Fukushima, it seems the scary stories have only just begun to surface. Given that Japan’s authoritarian…
- Oceans in Crisis: One Woman Will Cross the Pacific to Raise Awareness
Sonya Baumstein has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, kayaked from Seattle to Juneau, and paddled across the Bering Strait. But now she is in final…
- Biodegradable Plastics May Not Be As Environmentally Friendly Once Thought
For years we’ve been told that plastics harm the environment and that recycling was the best way to prevent unnecessary damage to the world we…
- At least four killed in PEMEX explosion in Gulf of Mexico
An explosion early Wednesday morning at a production platform run by the Mexican state-run oil company PEMEX in the Gulf of Mexico left at least…
- Wolves make great foster parents
Wolves willingly foster cubs, a discovery that may help save rare wild wolf packs Wolves have a certain undeserved reputation; gnarly, bitey, good for hunting…
- Hawaiian beaches littered with trash from ocean garbage patch
The large mass of garbage in the northern Pacific Ocean, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is causing plastic debris to scatter along the…