Overfishing plays havoc with ecosystems in South Africa

 

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"Wie in einem Horrorfilm" – Behörden säubern Marmarameer von "Ekel-Schleim"

 

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China, Vietnam release fish, shrimp into Beibu Gulf - China.org.cn

China and Vietnam have jointly released fish and shrimp into the Beibu Gulf.

Another fish caught off Fukushima waters with higher than permitted levels of caesium

 

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 Another fish contaminated with radiation was caught in waters off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture earlier this month.

Japon - rejet des eaux de Fukushima dans l'océan : quelles conséquences sur l'environnement ?

 

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Japan to dump contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear station into sea - france24 | EL ETOS UT

 Japan plans to release into the sea more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station, the government said on Tuesday.

Aral sea | The difficult return of water

 

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 For millennia the Aral Sea reigned as one of the planet’s largest inland bodies of water, straddling what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 

Stocks de poissons en Méditerranée : protéger mieux pour pêcher plus

 

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Study: Commercial fisheries regularly catch threatened, endangered species

  Despite Australia's international reputation for high quality marine conservation programming, new research out of the University of Queensland suggests Australia's seafood eaters are regularly consuming engendered species.

Considérée comme morte, la mer d'Aral semble ressuscitée en Asie centrale

Pendant de longues années, la mer d'Aral, située en Asie centrale, à cheval entre le Kazakhstan et l'Ouzbékistan, s'est évaporée en raison des chantiers de l'ancienne URSS. Pour produire du coton en masse, le bloc soviétique avait en effet détourné les fleuves. Aujourd’hui, la mer d’Aral semble renaître.

Tanzania's Indian Ocean fisheries on the brink of depletion: minister

A Tanzanian senior government official said on Friday the country's Indian Ocean fish stocks were running dry caused by overfishing and dynamite fishing.

Human antidepressants found in brains of Niagara River fish

Researchers have discovered high concentrations of human antidepressants in the brains of fish found in the Niagara River of Canada, according to CTV Tuesday.

37 million bits of plastic debris found on remote South Pacific island

It seems that there is really no place to escape plastic pollution.

International rules to strengthen policing of fishing boats in New Zealand

New Zealand authorities will be able to step up inspections of foreign-flagged fishing boats under its accession to an international convention of rules for commercial fishers, New Zealand's maritime authority said Monday.

Great Barrier Reef begins to show signs of recovery from coral bleaching

One of the most popular reef spots at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has almost fully recovered from the worst coral bleaching ever known in recent history, a NewsCorp report said on Monday.

New video captures coral bleaching process. The filmed experiments were conducted in an aquarium

What exactly happens to coral during a bleaching event?

Recently, researchers in Australia employed a microscope, camera and smart tablet to find out how the organisms respond to heat stress. It's the first time scientists have filmed the behaviors specific to bleaching.

Smell of death hits Australia's Great Barrier Reef: WWF

The smell of death has inundated Australia's Great Barrier Reef, scientists and environmentalists say, as the ghostly white bleached coral is inundated by an algal slime.

Hunger, power cuts in Zimbabwe, Zambia as lake level hits record low

Lake Kariba on the Zambezi river border between Zimbabwe and Zambia used to be dotted with hundreds of commercial fishing rigs, while local fishermen in small makeshift boats would catch enough bream for their livelihood.

Oceans to have more plastic than fish by 2050

The world's oceans may have more plastic debris than fish by the year 2050, according to a report produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and published by the World Economic Forum.

Half of marine life wiped out in just 40 years, says WWF

Populations of marine mammals, birds, reptiles and fish have halved in the last four decades, environmental NGO the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned on Wednesday.