Stretching across six countries in Southeast Asia and Melanesia (Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste), the Coral Triangle contains the richest marine ecosystems on earth. While encompassing just over 1.5% of the world’s oceans (and1% of the earth’s surface), it contains a staggering proportion of the world’s marine [...]
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The Caribbean region including Jamaica and other Small Island Developing States lacks the resources to combat a major oil spill, delegates to a regional convention on oil spill prevention and response have been warned. Opening the convention to discuss oil spill prevention, preparedness and response in the Gulf of Mexico, keynote speaker Christopher Cargill, [...] The Lloyd’s of London, one of the biggest insurers in the world, and Chatham House have prepared a report on Risks of Drilling Oil in the Arctic. According to the report: Rapid and disruptive change in the Arctic environment presents uneven prospects for investment and economic development. All across the Arctic, changes in climate [...] A year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Taiwan finds itself, like many countries around the world, having to make a difficult choice between retreating from nuclear energy or committing further to it. Yet no other country faces quite the same set of circumstances shared by the two East [...] “The Arctic is hot,” says Gustaf Lind, the Swedish ambassador who will chair the Arctic Council meeting in Stockholm on March 28th-29th. The other members are America, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Russia, plus six non-voting representatives of indigenous Arctic peoples such as Sami and Inuit. he top of the world is warming [...] A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region’s marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security and cultural identity, according to an Alaska Native groups and the Wildlife Conservation Society who convened at a recent [...] Chevron is being sued for more than $11 billion by Brazilian prosecutors [for spilling at least 2,400 barrels of oil offshore Brail]Officials say they are preparing criminal charges against Chevron and its management….Eager to halt criticism from regulators, politicians and environmental groups, Chevron said last November that it ”accepted full responsibility” for the incident. [...] New research from Chris Costello and Steve Gaines of the University of California, Santa Barbara (under peer review for the journal Science) reckons that those unassessed fisheries are gravely depleted, with on average about half the fishy biomass they need to maintain their maximum annual yield (the usual definition of sustainability). Another analysis, using [...] Taiwan’s offshore Penghu County is facing a serious oil pollution threat along some of its shores from a stranded Thailand-flagged freighter, a local official said Tuesday [Feb, 21, 2012]. The Oberon ran aground in shallow water off Mudou islet, part of the Penghu archipelago, early Sunday in strong winds. All 16 of the vessel’s [...] Some of the world’s most endangered marine life could be saved from extinction by establishing mobile nature reserves that would protect vulnerable species as they moved around the oceans, scientists say. The initiative could provide safe havens for endangered loggerhead and leatherback turtles, albatrosses, sharks and other travelling species, and sea life that is [...] |
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