Cradle of great ancient civilizations, superhighway for trade and transport, treasure-trove of biodiversity, the Mediterranean – the world’s best known sea – faces a sea of challenges in the 21st century, including climate change, pollution, tourism and overfishing.
Despite improvements in detection methods and more accurate ship positions, as well as warmer seas, ships continue to have close encounters with frozen, floating objects
A 33-year study of male Thornicroft’s giraffes in Zambia, Africa, has confirmed that the familiar pattern of brown blotches grows darker with age.
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 10 (UPI) — Human activity around the Dead Sea could threaten its existence and cause it to completely dry up, Israeli scientists say.
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, April 11 (UPI) — Canadian harp seal hunters were working in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Wednesday with a quota of 400,000 seals for a vastly diminished international market.
KOLKATA: State’s forest conservation efforts will soon get a major boost with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) extending Bengal a Rs 396-crore loan to develop infrastructure for urban forestry, conservation of biodiversity and wildlife preservation. An agreement has recently been signed between the agency and the Centre.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2012) – Climate change is projected to have far-reaching environmental impacts both domestically and abroad.
Whole Foods has announced it will be the first grocery chain in the U.S. to no longer sell any seafood in the “red.”
Replacing the pollination of food crops that the UK’s bees perform for free would cost £1.8bn. With hard data now linking pesticides to bees’ rapid decline, there is no excuse for inaction
In African countries where farmers have access and can afford to buy fertiliser, there is a profound difference in agricultural yields, a feature in Nature notes.
