Monaco Helps OAS Launch Effort to Save Oceans From Ravages of Climate Change
The Organization of American States held an international discussion on global ocean policy this week, focused on dangers to coral reefs, pollution and the effects of global warming.
A Delicate Balance: Protecting Northwest’s Glass Sponge Reefs
Rare and extensive reefs of glass sponges are found only one place on earth – a stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast. Now, efforts are underway to identify and protect these fragile formations before they are obliterated by fishing vessels that trawl the bottom.
The Pacific Is About to Get a Massive New Ocean Reserve
The nation of Palau in the western Pacific just protected 80 percent of their ocean.
OAS, Principality of Monaco & National Geographic Join Forces for the Oceans
To mark this year’s fifth anniversary of the admission of the Principality of Monaco as an observer to the Organization of American States (OAS), the Embassy of Monaco is spearheading a forum, free and open to the public, within the framework of the OAS Policy Roundtables in an area of special interest to HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and central to the agenda of his Foundation: the preservation of the oceans and marine conservation.
Food Chain Collapse Predicted in World’s Oceans
The first-of-its-kind global analysis of marine responses to climate change forecasts a grim future for fish. The world’s oceans are teeming with life, but rising carbon dioxide emissions could cause a collapse in the marine food chain from the top down, researchers in Australia said Monday.
The Predator Survives – But The Ecosystem Crashes
What do killer whales, polar bears and humans have in common? They are adaptable predators with the ability to select new prey when their favourite food is in low supply. But this change can disrupt entire ecosystems.
Chile Creates Largest Marine Reserve in the Americas
The newly protected waters around the Desventuradas Islands contain many marine species found nowhere else on Earth.
New Zealand Creates Vast Ocean Sanctuary
A vast stretch of New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone is being turned into an ocean sanctuary in a landmark deal to preserve one of the most pristine and unique environments on Earth.
Aquaculture in Northeast China
The aquaculture basins have been built out from the wooded coast to a distance of nearly 6 kilometers (4 miles). Fish farms have been constructed at many points along the provincial coastline, but this group of basins facing the Yellow Sea is the largest.