Ocean Sentry
A group of scientists who use Crepdiula onyx as a model organism to test microplastics immunity has found that they will threaten other marine organisms that are less resilient towards microplastic pollution.
March, 2018
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5 March
Impact of fishing fleets on the most threatened marine birds
Accidental by-catch –- which affects around 5,000 birds stuck in longlines every year — is the most severe effect on marine birds by the fishing activity in the Mediterranean.
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5 March
Secret kingdom of 1.5 million penguins found hiding in Antarctica
Scientists studying guano (i.e., bird poop) distribution in satellite imagery have stumbled upon a stupendous discovery: a “secret” Adélie penguin kingdom previously unknown to researchers that contains 1.5 million birds, hidden on a remote Antarctic archipelago.
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4 March
Blacktip shark facts: climate change lowers ocean migration
Climate change has drastically reduced the number of blacktip sharks migrating down the Atlantic coast to South Florida, posing a threat to the environmental health of the region.
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4 March
Conservationists call for emergency order to save B.C.’s killer whales
Several conservation groups say the federal government’s failure to issue an emergency order reducing threats to endangered orcas off the B.C. coast this year could mean the species’ extinction.
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2 March
Industrial fisheries in Southeast Asia divert millions of tonnes of fish to fishmeal
Four countries in Southeast Asia have diverted almost 40 million tonnes of fish towards fishmeal production in the past six decades.
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2 March
Samoa creates huge shark sanctuary
The island nation of Samoa has declared its waters a shark sanctuary, joining a string of other Pacific countries in protecting the marine predators.
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2 March
Antarctic sea ice shrinks for second-straight year
Sea ice cover in Antarctica has dropped to its second-lowest on record, Australian authorities said Friday, adding that it was not yet clear what was driving the reduction after several years of record-highs.
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2 March
Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year
The amount of carbon released through clearing mangroves amounts to 24m tonnes of CO2 per year, the research finds – equivalent to the annual emissions of Myanmar.
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2 March
Taiji’s dolphin hunting season has ended
Dolphin Project can confirm that on March 1, Taiji’s drive hunts ended for the 2017/18 season. Tarps and their framework that dolphins are dragged under to be killed or taken captive have come down. At the butcher’s house, rolled up tarps have been stored. Banger poles used to “drive” the …
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1 March
Asia’s hunger for sand takes a toll on endangered species
Between 1994 and 2012, global cement production—a proxy for concrete use—tripled, from 1.37 billion to 3.7 billion tons, driven largely by Asian construction, according to a 2014 report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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1 March
Dying reefs bigger threat to coasts than rising seas
The death of coral reefs is a more significant factor in the erosion of tropical coastlines than rising sea levels, a new international study has revealed.