On Monday, a New Zealand family were just walking along a Northern Auckland beach when they stumbled across a bizarre, pink-colour blob that resembled a volcano shape. The creature, which turned out to be a species of huge jellyfish, has a white segmented outer body, with a colourful red inside, and looks just a bit …
Whale shark viewing at Oslob, a popular tourism site in the Philippines, is facilitated by hand-feeding the animals with shrimp. The long-term impacts of this provisioning are not well understood. Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic In the Philippines, whale shark tourism is a booming business. But questions have arisen about how this activity could …
Environmental authorities in Mexico say they have denied permits for a proposed hotel near one of Mexico’s most important sea turtle nesting beaches on the Caribbean. The 520-room hotel project would have erected 23 buildings and an artificial lake on property just inland from the Xcacel beach, north of the resort of Tulum. The federal …
The HEPCA (Hurghada Environmental Protection & Conservation Association) NGO warned on Sunday that coral reefs in Hurghada, Red Sea are in serious danger as a result of fishing with explosives and throwing waste in the sea, according to a recent statement. The statement added that coral reefs are some of the richest natural habitats provide …
Only two years ago Australia’s Great Barrier Reef experienced a mass coral bleaching event that left the largest living structure in the world forever changed. Scientists discovered the events caused the collapse of the ecosystem for 29 percent of the 3,863 reefs in the giant coral reef system. Thanks to a milder 2017-2018 summer, Tourism …
Scientists have drawn a link between the amount of plastic a sea turtle consumes and its likelihood of death, with an estimated half of all sea turtles having plastic in their gut, according to CSIRO researchers. The CSIRO said it was previously unclear how much plastic could kill sea turtles and whether they could ingest …
Scientists have found that some algae that associate with corals are much more diverse and much older than previously thought. The origin of certain algae occurred at around the same time corals began building reefs on a grand scale around the world, the researchers showed. The diversity of these algae could boost corals’ …
Exclusive: Marine Park Authority scaled back surveys in 2017, when mass bleaching occurred in successive years for first time Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef occurred in 2016 and 2017. The government-funded body which monitors the reef’s health had to scale back its surveys of the bleaching in 2017 when funds ran low. …
More than 30 times this year, the federal government has received reports of whales tangled in fishing gear along the West Coast. Sometimes the whales manage to wriggle free. Other times you see heart-rending pictures on the news or a rescue mission. The culprit often involves Dungeness crab pot lines. Now Oregon crabbers are working …
he Great Barrier Reef is Australia’s natural treasure, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and the largest living structure on the planet. Sprawling at 344,000 square kilometers, the ecosystem is composed of 3,000 individual reef system and houses a variety of marine plants and animals including 4,000 species of mollusks, 1,500 species …
