Living on the edge

Coastal South Asia is fragile and vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, governments are setting up industries, ports and promoting tourism …

Global Eco Watch: Red Sea turtles are now mostly being born female due to climate change

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World Bank sanctions fund to strengthen fisheries management

Project will initially support four Pacific Island countries

Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain

Antibiotics used for therapeutic purposes in animals to carry details of withdrawal period

Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt

Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme

On thin ice

Safe under water

Tiny marine life could be safe from harmful effects of ozone depletion

Threat to dugongs

The massive sea cows are vanishing in India

Repealing magnets

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Push for sand mining

New Maharashtra policy ignores resident’s concerns, law

Sponged to death

Natural sponges from the Mediterranean Sea are fast disappearing. Global warming and overfishing figure among the list of perpetrators of this …

Salmon hatcheries deplete wild stocks

Introducing farmed salmon in the rivers doesn't help

US plan to settle WTO disputes

Climate change

No respite for Ridleys

Turtle excluder devices can reduce turtle deaths. But a web of politics and government laxity prevents their use

Olive Ridley turtles return to nest at Odisha sanctuary after two years

DRDO switches off lights at the missile test range nearby to help draw female turtles back to the beach

Highest mortality year for dolphins, whales

US authorities investigating if stranding incidents linked to BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

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Dolphins return

Coastal management rules under review

Some nets and sunshine

Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats

Global Eco Watch: Drying Sea of Galilee swells after years of drought

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New tentacles

Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector