Turtle in trouble

Dead waters

The seas around the UK will not be free of radioactive discharges for several years

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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

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

New tentacles

Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector

West Bengal proposes alternative site for Nandigram chemical hub

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