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ScienceNow The number of oxygen-starved “dead zones” in global marine waters has jumped by more than a third in the last 2 years, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released last week. The latest figures reveal some 200 dead zones worldwide, up from 149 since 2004. The affected waters are robbed of [...]

Associated Press : Tourists spend billions of dollars each year on hotels and tours to experience the marine habitats in areas including the Caribbean, Australia and the Pacific islands. But that money could dry up, as record amounts of coral have died off in the Caribbean and Pacific from pollution, overfishing and rising sea temperatures [...]

Conservation International In exacting detail, the Ant Protocol sets forth guidelines for scientists studying the critical insects – from collecting the surface layer of forest floor known as “leaf litter,” to sifting its finest contents into a device known as the “Winkler apparatus,” and finally to capturing the ants that fall to the bottom for [...]

National Geographic The United Nations has estimated that only about ten million sharks are harvested each year. Some conservationists, however, put the number at closer to a hundred million. But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches. The shark-fin [...]

www.msnbc A half-mile section of China’s Yellow River turned “red and smelly” after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe, state media said Monday. The incident in Lanzhou, a city of 2 million people in western Gansu province, follows a string of industrial accidents that have poisoned major rivers in China [...]

reuters Hippos at a national park in Congo’s war-torn east could be wiped out by the end of the year unless action is taken to stop rebel militia slaughtering them for their meat and ivory, conservationists said. Experts say more than 400 hippos have been killed by Mai Mai fighters in the last two weeks [...]

The Independent Iceland has decided to resume commercial whaling, in defiance of the 20-year-old international whaling moratorium. The country joins Norway in openly hunting the great whales for profit. In recent years it has been killing a small number of animals annually but saying it was hunting them for “scientific” reasons, as does Japan. Iceland’s [...]

Associated Press A new survey of coral reefs along Madagascar’s southwestern coast found massive damage from coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures, researchers said Thursday. However, the survey team, funded by Conservation International and led by the conservation groups Blue Ventures and the Wildlife Conservation Society, said scientists also discovered several small reefs with [...]

For those who rem early in the year when I mentioned abt the movie by Al Gore, The Inconvenient Truth, Now we got a chance to watch it locally in Singapore. Actually got this through a friend. For those interested, dun miss it. Do also note that I’m not in any political party. JC ============================================== [...]

msnbc The switch to new ultra-clean diesel fuel is going smoothly and supplies should be readily available at pumps when the rules take effect on Sunday, U.S. officials said Tuesday. That will mean less pollution, fewer health issues and possibly the start of a renaissance for diesel cars in the United States. In a move [...]