Mother Earth Day – Exploring Rights to Nature
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Happy International Mother Earth Day! All living creatures depend on the health of Mother Earth for their survival. Many factors…
Happy International Mother Earth Day! All living creatures depend on the health of Mother Earth for their survival. Many factors…
If confirmed, the discovery could shed light on where the sharks give birth and mate, which has remained mysterious to…
Editor’s note: Around the world, innovative businesses are helping to solve some of the biggest environmental challenges of our…
Off the coast of Indonesia’s easternmost island, on a bright January day this year, Nesha Ichida waded into the crystal-clear…
And why it could one day come back.
The Indonesian government has granted six species of threatened “walking sharks” the highest level of protection across all…
In 2009, scientists from the Stockholm Resilience Center identified nine planetary boundaries: including climate change - whose…
With the warmer El Niño climate pattern about to replace the colder La Niña in the Pacific Ocean at the end of the year, we are…
Ocean-dwelling sharks and rays, including the majestic reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi), have declined globally by an estimated…
Targeted for their gill plates and trapped accidentally in fishing nets, reef manta rays are in trouble; their populations…
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The first trial of the ‘SharkGuard’ technology reduced the bycatch of blue sharks and pelagic rays by as much as 91 per cent…
We have to do something.
A blue shark (Prionace glauca) off the Azores. © Nuno…
Researchers found about one third of animal feed samples taken in Singapore contained shark DNA
Über ein Drittel aller ozeanisch lebenden Haiarten steht auf der Roten Liste der IUCN als gefährdet oder bedroht. Da die…
Sharks aren’t as scary as they are portrayed by the media and play an important role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems.
#Especiais (Especiais temáticos repletos de informações científicas) Tubarões e corais como espécies-chaves para a manutenção…
Sharks, in a zeitgeist of top predator-worship and science triumphalism.
Enlarge (credit: Leah D. Rubin) Sharks have been swimming and hunting in the world's oceans for 450 million years, and though…
How are sharks able to migrate so precisely across long-distances in the ocean? This question has long puzzled scientists. New…
Editor's note: News about conservation and the environment is made every day, but some of it can fly under the radar. In a…
Easy. Don’t go swimming/surfing/snorkelling/diving in the ocean. Sure, that’s true, but if you’re like many Australians, the…
The World Cetacean Alliance (WCA) developed the Whale Heritage Site (WHS) initiative to preserve cetacean species and their…
Il declino di squali e razze sul nostro Pianeta si avvicina ormai al “punto di non ritorno”. È quanto sostiene un team…
More than half of the 31 oceanic shark and ray species examined in recent research are now considered to be endangered, or even…
Fishing fleets have indiscriminately slaughtered sharks for decades and a new study catalogues the environmental damage done
It's an apolcayptic scenario, but researchers say it's still possible to reverse the trend with proper policies
Guess who overfished them.
Des scientifiques qui étudient les populations de requins et de raies à travers le monde ont publié une étude préoccupante décriv…
Scientists looking at shark and ray populations across the globe have published an alarming study depicting a rapid decline of…
Numbers of oceanic sharks and rays have declined at an “alarming” 71 per cent over almost half a century, leading to an…
Sharks are doing really badly, according to a new report. The study, put together by the Global Shark Trends Project and…