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

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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

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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

चीन-हांगकांग की शार्क के पंखों में मिला 6 से 10 गुना अधिक पारा

पारे के लंबे समय तक संपर्क में रहने से यह मस्तिष्क और केंद्रीय तंत्रिका तंत्र को नुकसान पहुंचा सकता है

Grounded vessel in Chilika lake could spill oil and destroy its marine life

The vessel carrying oil ran aground 20 days ago and has still not been salvaged

Mumbai Coastal Road: Pathway to ruin

On July 16, the Bombay High Court ordered that construction on the $1.7 billion Mumbai Coastal Road, to be built by reclaiming the city’s …

How water flows across continents

Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created graphic maps of watersheds across the world. His works can be found here.

Ocean acidification ‘changing’ marine biodiversity

Study sheds light on how excess carbon dioxide in oceans is affecting marine species and in turn the global food chain

Why climate change is making it harder to monitor marine pollution

Warming of oceans means that the plants and organisms used as warning systems for pollution are being rendered ineffective

Kerala HC upholds ban on export of shark fin

India may not have killed sharks in a “genocidal proportion” ever, but ecological balance demands zero tolerance, says the court

Goa: can it strike a balance between environment and development?

Promoting eco-friendly tourism and reviving mining without harming environment are major challenges