Marine

Fishers have demanded that oil companies and the government should clean up their rivers and estuaries and pay adequate compensation for losses due to oil pollution. Participants at the training session They made the call on Thursday, August 5, 2021 at the close of the Coastal Ecosystems Monitoring and Training Session at Uta Ewua in Ikot Abasi LGA of Akwa ...

The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the Gulf stream belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century. Atlantic Ocean This is shown in a new study published in Nature Climate Change. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, transports warm water masses from the tropics northward at the ocean surface and cold water ...

No fewer than 105 coastal communities in Bayelsa State may face extinction in the next 30 years, if nothing is done to halt the rampaging effects of ocean encroachment. Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State Prof. Ambily Etekpe of the Department of Political Science, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassoma, Bayelsa, gave the warning on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in ...

Former Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dakuku Peterside, says an integrated national agenda will ensure the nation benefits optimally from its coastal endowment. Dr. Dakuku Peterside, former Director General of NIMASA Peterside disclosed this at the inauguration of the Blue Economy Co-ordinating Group formed by the Blue Economy Resources Nigeria Ltd., in Lagos on Thursday, ...

Over 300 academics from six continents on Thursday, June 24, 2021 called on countries and governments to press pause on plans to open up the deep sea to mining. Scientists insist that health of oceans depends on halting plans to begin deep-sea mining The cadre of leading ocean experts in a statement argue that far too little is known about ...

Ocean waves in the Southern Hemisphere are becoming more powerful, adding to Australia’s coastal erosion, according to an international oceanographic team. Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison Dr Tom Mortlock, an environmental scientist with Australia’s Macquarie University, had said that the team plotted the trajectory of stronger waves and found the coasts of South and Western Australia along with Pacific and ...

On World Oceans Day, stakeholders have called for an end to indiscriminate dumping of plastics into the nation’s water bodies. Volunteers with Greenpeace Philippines clean up a heavily polluted beach in Manila. Photo credit: DW.com The experts made called for deliberate policies and actions to protect the nations water bodies in an interview. According to them, another worrisome trend is ...

South Korea has asked the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to explore ways to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog to ensure safety in Japan’s planned release of wastewater. South Korea’s Oceans and Fisheries Minister, Moon Seong-hyeok Oceans Minister Moon Seong-hyeok made the request in a letter sent to Lim Ki-tack, secretary general of the UN organisation, calling Tokyo’s decision to ...

Governments need to take the world’s oceans more strongly into account while considering how to curb greenhouse emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Image in the report on the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue showing the potentials of different sectors and technologies for mitigation This is the key conclusion of a report published by UN Climate Change on Friday, ...

A new ocean conservation initiative is underway to catalyse the protection and conservation of 18 million square kilometres of the ocean (7 million square miles) over the next five years – an area twice the size of the continental United States and larger than the continent of South America. Healthy oceans have a central role to play in solving one ...