Fisherfolk unite

People from fishing communities across the world are getting organised to fight for their rights

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A robot for the deep

Scientists in the US have developed a device that would help search toxic wastes at seabed

Mysterious spill

Sea of death

The unwanted

'Arms race' and evolution

Marine life on CD

Poisoning ships

Huge slick

Oil spill off Spanish coastthreatens marine life

From the realms of past

...researchers discover oldest hard-shelled marine animal

Assessing marine threat

Message in bottles

The voice of fishers

He championed fishers’ rights and conservation

To prevent overkill

Medicinal values of marine life make it vulnerable to overexploitation. But it is now possible to artificially produce such qualities

Science & Technology - Briefs

COVID-19: Fishermen from Andhra stuck in Odisha as state declares ‘fishing holiday’

Fishermen begin to weave nets, another source of income for them

Bytes

Fisherfolk demand lifting of ban on sea cucumber fishing

Science and Technology - Briefs

Microplastics, microbeads: What you did not know about self-care products

Bureau of Indian Standards in 2017 proposed a ban on raw materials not recognised safe for use in cosmetics from 2020. The status of the ban is&…

Sea of change

Global warming poses threat to CO2-absorbing planktons

Rise in algae growth

Sharks in soup

India goes against world in not banning shark fin trade

New study shows that big mammals suffer brain damage in captivity

Caging large mammals and putting them on display is undeniably cruel from a neural perspective, it says