Groundwater depletion will soon be as important a factor in contributing to sea-level rise as the melting of glaciers other than those in Greenland and Antarctica, scientists say.
Michael Baretta and Camilla Howard received a warm welcome at their Kosi Bay destination following seven months trekking across and cleaning South Africa’s shoreline. They collected 7 155kg of litter, and educated locals along the way about the importance of looking after the environment.
The message was clear: ‘Hoot for Penguins!’ and Cape Town obliged on a recent Saturday morning. All along the Main Road - from Surfer’s Corner in Muizenberg to Boulder’s Beach in Simon’s Town - a large group of waddlers walked the talk in the name of penguin preservation.
A recent Green Times article focuses on Dr Sylvia Earle, one of the most famous marine biologists in the world who in her lifetime has spent more time underwater than just about anyone else on the planet.
It's been three years since the BP oil spill, and new truths have come to light - from deep down inside the ocean.
Could we ever fully appreciate and value the essential role which the oceans play in our world’s ecology and the future health of our planet? The Sea Pledge Saldanha to Sodwana Coastal Tour aims to generate opportunities for local communities who depend on the ocean.
My thanks go out to all the people who’ve cared about, assisted, contemplated and appreciated whales in general. Also to those who’ve had the sensitivity to wonder what the whales want or need – taking a moment to pause automatic human-doing and instead wish to know the animals’ wishes.
Applications are invited for the Scientist position that has become available in the Research Division of the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board (KZNSB) in Durban.
Japan's fisheries agency says it has temporarily suspended its Southern Ocean whale hunt after clashes with anti-whaling activists.
Aid workers struggled to reach remote villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday as the death toll rose from a tsunami triggered by a powerful undersea earthquake.
The US is about to treat the world to the first genetically modified meat: a mutant salmon that could wipe out wild salmon populations and threaten human health - but we can stop it now before our plates are filled with suspicious Frankenfish.
Lifeboats from an oil rig that was temporarily grounded on a small island in southern Alaska may have leaked as much as 272 gallons of diesel fuel into pristine waters along the shoreline, but that cannot be determined until a full inspection is completed, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
A Shell oil drilling vessel has run aground off an Alaska island during a severe storm while under tow, officials said, as environmentalists again warned against Arctic oil drilling.
Last month in Hobart, Tasmania, members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources met to discuss several proposals to create marine protected areas extending from the Antarctic continent well out to sea.
How do we care for the ocean in a way that meaningfully impacts on the people?
Oceans make up 99% of the Earth's living space. Since South Africa is surrounded by two of the world’s five oceans, National Marine Week should be a significant celebration of these seascapes, and the economic, tourism, and biodiversity services provided by them.
The Two Oceans Aquarium will join a number of facilities around the country to celebrate International African Penguin Day on 13 October 2012. The day is dedicated to raising awareness of the plight of the African penguin. It is estimated that only 60 000 of these birds remain in the wild and that they could be extinct within the next 15 years.
Shark finning - cutting a shark’s fin off and releasing the live shark back into the water - is outlawed in SA, but commercial shark fishing with the aim of selling the fins is allowed, according to the Department of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries.
Less than 1% of the world’s oceans are protected from all human activity. We are fishing ourselves into a crisis that threatens global fish stocks, marine biodiversity and local economies.
In a huge victory against the plunder of our oceans, the Australian Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has announced new laws that will ban the Margiris super trawler, now known as the Abel Tasman, from operating in Australian waters for up to two years.
