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#1204642019-03-22
Australie : des milliers de requins meurent afin de protéger les surfeurs
Les vidéos ont été tournées en mars par des membres d’organisations de protection de l’environnement. Les scènes qu’on y voit se déroulent au nord-est de l’Australie, au large des plages de l’Etat du Queensland. Deux requins sont pris au piège, un gros hameçon coincé dans la bouche, et agonisent ...
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#1217142019-07-26
Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior: video
Baby whales, like all young mammals, rely on their mother’s milk for their early development.
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#1216102019-07-17
Ban on discarding edible fish caught at sea has failed – Lords report
The ban on the wasteful discards of healthy and edible fish at sea has failed, according to a Lords report.
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#1221532019-09-10
Barbados, New Zealand link for ‘clean oceans’
Barbados has made two major foreign policy moves on clean oceans, joining with New Zealand in the fight against acidified oceans and climate change. Bridgetown’s request to join the New Zealand-led Ocean Acidification Working Group has been accepted, as Minister for Climate Change James Shaw wel ...
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#1218912019-08-14
Beavers on the coast are helping salmon bounce back. Here’s how.
The arrival of beaver dams in the Pacific Northwest’s Elwha River delta may have surprising benefits.
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#1334962022-02-24
Before and after: These incredible photos show Greece's coast is disappearing
The blazing sun, the spectacular beaches, the Mediterranean lifestyle and the gorgeous food. For these reasons and many more, millions of people travel to Greece every year.
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#1263512020-12-18
Beluga whistles and clicks could be silenced by an increasingly noisy Arctic Ocean
Under the sea ice, the Arctic Ocean is one of the quietest places on Earth. But it can be very noisy when the ice is forming and breaking up or during storms and when glaciers are calving.
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#1239082020-01-23
Bending with Wind, Coral Spawning linked to Ocean Environment
During the early summer, corals simultaneously release tiny balls composed of sperms and eggs, known as bundles, that float to the ocean surface. Here the bundles open, allowing the sperm to fertilize the eggs where they eventually settle on the seafloor and become new coral on the reef.
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#1196402019-01-28
Beneath The Waves: A Game-Changer To Shark Science In The Caribbean
While most people in the northern hemisphere are blanketed under snow and actual blankets, Beneath the Waves is outside and on the waters of the Caribbean, helping make their vision come true: oceans that have thriving shark populations.
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#1218382019-08-08
Bermuda's baitfish populations
Small fishes play an important role in the marine food chain, providing food for larger fishes and water birds, but they are also caught for use as bait in both commercial and recreational fisheries.
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#1298572021-08-10
Bermuda’s coral reefs ‘doing well’ but future is uncertain
Bermuda’s coral reefs could help to protect the island from strengthening storms – if we are able to keep them healthy. Robbie Smith, curator of the Natural History Museum at BAMZ, said at an online round table on the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme that safeguarding the marine environment co ...
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#1226642019-10-15
Best way to protect ocean fisheries? Let nations profit from them
Overfishing is a major problem for the world's oceans, but a strategy adopted nearly 50 years ago has helped protect fisheries: giving nations exclusive rights to waters 200 miles offshore and letting them police their own fish stocks.
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#1265512021-01-11
Big differences in how coral reef fish larvae are dispersed
How the larvae of colorful clownfish that live among coral reefs in the Philippines are dispersed varies widely, depending on the year and seasons—a Rutgers-led finding that could help scientists improve conservation of species.
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#1244152020-02-27
Billions lost as illicit fisheries trade hurting nations who can afford it least
More than eight million to 14 million tonnes of unreported fish catches are traded illicitly every year, costing the legitimate market between $9 billion and $17 billion in trade each year, according to new UBC research.
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#1188122018-11-06
Billions to be gained in coral reef investment, new analysis shows
New findings released offer a compelling business case for investing in the protection of the world’s coral reefs, with economic benefits stretching into the tens of billions in just over a decade.
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#1259662020-12-02
Biodiversity: Monaco comes to the rescue of Riviera’s seahorses
The Prince Albert II Foundation, the Oceanographic Institute, and biodiversity specialist Biotope have joined efforts to study the seahorse population off the Monaco coastline.
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#1279092021-04-06
Biodiversity’s healthy byproduct — nutrient-rich seafood
About a third of people around the world rely on protein from the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. But the full nutritional value of this seafood depends upon the species diversity in the ecosystem where it was extracted, a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of British Columbi ...
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#1234732019-12-17
Biological oceanographer breaks down the linkages between human impacts on the ocean and their effects on human systems
Look out at the ocean, a symbol of constant endurance and abundance. It's tempting to think that in the face of a rapidly changing climate and all the impacts it brings—disaster, food insecurity, habitat and biodiversity loss to name a few—the ocean will always be there.
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#1323652022-01-07
Bleached coral reefs can still support nutritious seafood, study finds
Bleached coral reefs can continue to support nutritious seafood, according to a new study conducted by the University of Lancaster. The leading cause of coral bleaching is climate change. A warming planet means a warming ocean, and a change in water temperature can cause coral to drive out algae.
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#1344692022-05-16
Bleached sea sponges found in New Zealand waters for first time
Sea sponges off New Zealand’s southern coastline have been found bleached bone-white for the first time, following extreme ocean temperatures.
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#1339912022-04-11
Bleaching of marine sponges observed in warming Tasmanian waters for the first time
Bleaching in marine sponges in temperate waters off Tasmania’s east coast has been observed for the first time, with scientists warning the discovery could be an indicator of climate change in deeper reef systems.
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#1208022019-04-17
Blue Planet: The Nature Conservancy unveils $1.6 billion bid to save the oceans
Global non-profit The Nature Conservancy has announced a $1.6 billion plan to help save and restore the world's oceans by selling "blue bonds" to coastal and island countries.
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#1321792021-12-15
Blue solution to humanity’s “code red” crisis
The heat dome over Canada’s Pacific Northwest that killed hundreds of humans and “cooked” one billion sea creatures; Europe’s catastrophic floods; and the worst wildfires in almost a decade could become our new normal.
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#1187152018-10-29
Budapest's underwater wonderland draws divers from far and wide
Not every diver's dream is to watch shimmering shoals of fish swim through coral reefs in dazzlingly blue seas.For Laura Tuominen, the ultimate diving experience is not to be found in the Red Sea or the Caribbean, but in a labyrinth of spectacular underwater caves beneath the pavements of Budapest.
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#1317152021-11-16
Busy beavers: up close with Cornwall’s furry eco-warriors
Reintroducing beavers is like throwing petrol on to the bonfire when it comes to nature recovery – it really speeds things up,” says Chris Jones, farmer and communities director of the Beaver Trust. We’re on a tour of Woodland Valley Farm, near Ladock, his home and the site of the Cornwall Beave ...
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#1230812019-11-20
COP25 to keep ocean focus despite moving to Madrid
Next month’s UN climate talks have moved from Chile to Spain but will retain the ‘blue COP’ theme.
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#1186202018-10-22
California’s Underwater Forests Are Being Eaten by the ‘Cockroaches of the Ocean’
Early on a gray summer Saturday, an unusual assemblage — commercial fishermen, recreational boaters, neoprene-clad divers — gathered for a mission at Albion Cove, a three-hour drive north of San Francisco.
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#1251642020-04-17
Can Coral Reefs ‘Have It All’?
Though coral reefs are in sharp decline across the world, scientists say some reefs can still thrive with plentiful fish stocks, high fish biodiversity, and well-preserved ecosystem functions.
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#1340302022-04-13
Can We Save Coral Reefs? | Problem Solved
Coral reefs are a unique and biodiverse natural ecosystem and economic keystones for many communities and nations. They only cover about 0.2% of the ocean floor but support 25% of marine life.
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#1225832019-10-09
Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?
As we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world is warming at an alarming rate, with devastating consequences. While our vast oceans are helping to take the heat out of climate change, new research shows that they are absorbing a lot more atmospheric carbon dioxide than previousl ...
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#1337132022-03-03
Can we save coral reefs? | Problem Solved
Coral reefs are a unique and biodiverse natural ecosystem and economic keystones for many communities and nations. They only cover about 0.2% of the ocean floor but support 25% of marine life.
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#1213732019-06-21
Canada becomes first G7 country to ban shark fin imports
It was on a family visit to Hong Kong that Kristyn Wong-Tam noticed her uncle – a well-regarded chef – was the only person at the table not touching a bowl of shark fin soup.
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#1285282021-05-11
Canada's oceans on the crest of a transformative decade
Canada is in the enviable position of having the longest coastline in the world. But our trio of oceans is being battered by a storm of negative impacts, be it overexploited fish stocks, plastics pollution, degrading marine food webs, increasingly fragile coastal ecosystems or biodiversity loss ...
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#1229772019-11-13
Canada’s fish populations declining; government must urgently enforce new Fisheries Act and get serious about rebuilding fisheries
Oceana Canada’s latest annual report on the state of Canada’s fisheries was released today, revealing that the health of fish populations has declined over the past three years and the government is not acting with the speed and rigour needed to rebuild depleted stocks. Unless this changes, Cana ...
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#1284022021-05-05
Care for oceans a ‘collective duty’
We have a collective duty to watch over our ocean and its biodiversity to ensure it is still there for our children and the generations to come, says Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dame Meg Taylor.
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#1265192020-12-30
Caribbean could lose coral reefs by end of century, UN environment agency warns
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned that the Caribbean, among other places, could lose its coral reefs by the end of the century unless there are drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
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#1286612021-05-17
Chaos and beauty
Todd Thimios is an acclaimed underwater photographer, deep sea submersible pilot and expedition leader, currently based in Australia. His work has been feature in The Times, Boat International and get lost magazine, and was highly commended in the 2020 Ocean Photography Awards. In this interview ...
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#1248082020-03-20
Chile: Expedition to the end of the world, where humpback whales are thriving
This is the story of how, after centuries of exploitation, the humpback whale has managed to recover in the waters of southernmost Chile. It is also the story of how the park where the recovery is unfolding has become one of the best spots in the Pacific Ocean to admire these giants.
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#1291712021-06-08
China marks World Oceans Day with a focus on protecting marine biodiversity
Countries across the world will observe World Oceans Day on Tuesday. This year's theme, "The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods," highlights the importance of oceans for the life and activities of the global community.
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#1200082019-02-19
Citizen Science Comes of Age
A team of seven scuba divers crawled along the seafloor in a shallow bay off Tasmania, Australia, parting tufts of seaweed and peering under small rock ledges as they hunted for a rosy-hued fish scarcely bigger than a mouse with a pouty face, hand-like pectoral fins, and a posture reminiscent of ...
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#1347072022-05-25
Click, clack and pop: sounds indicate health of coral reefs, study finds
The popping sound, like milk hitting puffed rice cereal, that you hear when putting your head underwater is not your ear adjusting to a different atmosphere – it is the sound of the submarine world.
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#1220452019-08-29
Climate change, human activity lead to nearshore coral growth decline
Declining growth of Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System corals predicts trouble for worldwide reefs
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#1233292019-12-06
Climate heating is sucking the oxygen out of the oceans
The growing number of greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of nutrients are taking oxygen out of the oceans, threatening all marine biodiversity.
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#1250472020-04-09
Coastal pollution reduces genetic diversity of corals, reef resilience
A new study published in the journal PeerJ by researchers at the University of Hawaii found that human-induced environmental stressors have a large effect on the genetic composition of coral reef populations in Hawaii.
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#1195322019-01-22
Coastal seas around New Zealand are heading into a marine heatwave, again
As New Zealanders are enjoying their days at the beach, unusually warm ocean temperatures look to be a harbinger of another marine heatwave.
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#1321432021-12-10
Coastal species are forming colonies on plastic trash in the ocean, study finds
Termed “neopelagic communities”, these colonies are thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and going where the current flows
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#1221692019-09-11
Cod is more than a commodity, it’s vital for North Sea health – Calum Duncan
Earlier this year, the intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted on the global state of nature.
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#1272302021-02-22
Colorful connection found in coral's ability to survive higher temperatures
Coral within the family Acropora are fast growers and thus important for reef growth, island formation, and coastal protection but, due to global environmental pressures, are in decline
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#1352742022-07-11
Colorful new corals bedeck the busy waters off Hong Kong, study shows
In the eastern waters off Hong Kong, a group of scientists searching for coral-eating nudibranchs stumbled upon a colorful surprise: three new species of sun corals. These orange, purple and green corals belong to the genus Tubastraea, bringing the known members of this coral group from seven sp ...
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#1340922022-04-14
Concerned scientists probe sea urchin deaths in Caribbean
Sea urchins are dying across the Caribbean at a pace scientists say could rival a mass die-off that last occurred in 1983, alarming many who warn the trend could further decimate already frail coral reefs in the region.