The Science Daily has reported that helium supplies may be in danger. Helium, which is the gas which lifts the balloons at children’s parties, changes the voice and also used in some mixed-gas diving has been reported as depleting so rapidly in the world’s largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Texas, that supplies are expected to […]
Last time Earth suffered a carbon-induced fever, it was the oceans that helped saved the day, say marine scientists in California.Massive ocean-bottom accumulations of the mineral barite show that the last severe global warming episode 55 million years ago was accompanied by several thousands of years of ocean plant life kicking into high gear. All […]
Continents of garbage in the oceans are killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain
In one of the few places on Earth where people can rarely be found, the human race has well and truly made its mark. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies a floating garbage patch […]
Until 2002, these giant creatures were seen only occasionally in Japanese waters. But for the past five years, they have been swarming every year into the Sea of Japan, the water that separates Japan from mainland Asia. During the biggest invasion so far, in 2005, an estimated 500 million jellyfish — not yet mature — […]
The University of Miami’s marine research ship struck and stuck fast on a shallow reef in Biscayne National Park, then cruised on without reporting the incident.
The university and the ship’s captain both could face potentially heavy penalties for the grounding, which left the 96-foot F.G. Walton Smith wedged on a patch of coral for […]
An international law expert has warned a Japanese whaling fleet headed for the Southern Ocean could devastate Australia’s $500 million whale watching industry.
Professor Donald Rothwell from the Australian National University has urged the Federal Government to use international litigation rather than diplomacy to halt the operation, which the Japanese claim is being conducted for scientific […]
Concerns about the adverse publicity surrounding the ferry tragedy off Pulau Tioman last month, in which seven people died, prompted its assemblyman to make an outlandish suggestion.
“Maybe we should just build a bridge from Tanjung Gemok (in Rompin) all the way to Tioman as part of the East Coast Economic Region’s initiative,” said Md Rusli […]
Several teams of scientists went from Thailand to Indonesia to the Maldives to study the impact of the 2004 tsunami on the coral. Their reports have been released through the National Museum of Natural History’s Atoll Research Bulletin issue 544 in an edited collection called Tsunamis and Coral Reefs.
The report, called “Disturbance to Coral Reefs […]
The State Fisheries Department seized a boat laden with almost a tonne of coral at Tanjung Tuan in Port Dickson near here on Tuesday. State director Mohd Sufian Sulaiman said the coral had an estimated market value of RM7,500.
“We received a tip off from the public on illegal coral harvesting activities along Tanjung Tuan and […]
The Emperor of Japan expressed “heartfelt distress” yesterday for the release of an aggressive American bream into the country’s largest lake, amid growing national concern at the fate of native species.
Emperor Akihito appeared to take responsibility for the introduction to Japan of the American bluegill, whose fierce appetites have caused the extinction of the prized […]
