Coral fish become stressed and lose weight if they are separated from each other, hampering their chances of survival, an Australian study revealed on Thursday. Scientists from James Cook University in Queensland state monitored blue-green…
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#Conservation: Half of marine life wiped out in just 40 years, says WWF
The Geneva-based conservation group said in its “Living Blue Planet Report” that over-fishing, pollution and climate change had significantly shrunk the size of commercial fish stocks between 1970 and 2010. According to the WWF, species…
#Conservation: World must cut pollution to save marine life
If left unchecked, global warming will cause irreversible damage to marine life in the world’s oceans, forcing fish to search for cooler waters and destroying valuable coral reefs, an international study said Thursday. Keeping global…
Climate change could disturb marine life for millennia
Climate change may lead to disturbances in marine life that will take thousands of years to recover from, not hundreds of years as previously thought, researchers said Monday. The study in the Proceedings of the…