Ocean Sentry
The environment ministry said the oil covered an area of nearly 13,000 hectares and had polluted 60km of coastal ecosystems, including mangrove wetlands and marine mammal habitats.
April, 2018
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5 April
New study in oxygen-deprived black sea provides insights on future carbon budget
Scientists are studying the oxygen-deprived waters of the Black Sea to help answer questions about the deepest parts of the ocean and Earth’s climate.
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5 April
Wake up call: Indian forests, mangroves turning brown from green
Rising temperatures and changes in land use are turning large fractions of India’s core forests and mangroves from green to brown, a new study has revealed.
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4 April
Study reveals more than 100 tiny plastics in every meal
We could be swallowing more than 100 tiny plastic particles with every main meal, a Heriot-Watt study has revealed.
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4 April
Ice-free Arctic summers could hinge on small climate warming range
A range of less than one degree Fahrenheit (or half a degree Celsius) of climate warming over the next century could make all the difference when it comes to the probability of future ice-free summers in the Arctic, new University of Colorado Boulder research shows.
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4 April
Debris mafia turns Navi Mumbai mangroves into dumping ground
Hundreds of truckloads of debris have been dumped over the extended weekend on a sprawl of land barely 10 meters from the mangrove and wetland stretch in Ghansoli along the abandoned Palm Beach Road extension skirting Thane creek.
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4 April
Ireland among worst offenders for overfishing, says new report
Ireland is one of the worst EU member states for overfishing in the Atlantic, and is undermining international efforts to restore fish stocks to sustainable levels, according to a report by the New Economics Foundation (NEF).
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3 April
New study shows seafloor erosion now occurring like coastal land loss
Scientists have discovered that the seafloor from the Mississippi River Delta to the Gulf of Mexico is eroding like the land loss that is occurring on the Louisiana coast.
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3 April
Estuaries may experience accelerated impacts of human-caused CO2
Rising anthropogenic, or human-caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human-caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem’s ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.
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3 April
Coral reefs protect coasts from severe storms
Coral reefs can naturally protect coasts from tropical cyclones by reducing the impact of large waves before they reach the shore, according to scientists.
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2 April
Greenland is melting faster than any time in the last 400 Years
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at its fastest rate in at least 400 years, new research suggests. And the melting is only speeding up.
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2 April
Antarctica retreating across the sea floor
Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found.