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Because tuna has been a staple food to some, while a much-coveted delicacy to others, the world has now reached the point of peak tuna. The species has been overfished beyond the point of any sustainability. Tuna populations have greatly dwindled to a dismal 15 percent of its original numbers. Blame this on the pricey status of this fleshy and fatty [...]

Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

The global fate of fisheries, their decline and overexploitation, may yet show a more promising environmental future. Where trade agreements failed to halt the overfishing of oceans, the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place next month in Copenhagen may yet be the solution. The trick lies in the pledge by the leaders of the G20 group [...]

In spite of many local and international restrictions, overfishing continues to be a glaring reality, even escalating at an alarming rate. Countries have been breaking their environmental pledges in this regard, creating a huge gap between what countries promise to do to end overfishing and what actually happens in the seas, oceans, and coastal waters. [...]

Life on earth greatly depends on open oceans that comprise 99 percent of all habitable regions on the planet. These areas provide nearly 80 percent of fish supplies for human consumption. They also ‘carry out half the photosynthesis (conversion of solar energy to sustain life) that takes place on the planet and, through their ability to absorb CO2, [...]

Coral reefs are some of the most battered life forms due to global warming. Coral bleaching and collapse of entire reef ecosystems are occurrences largely blamed on imbalances in the equilibrium of marine environments such as changes in ocean temperature, pollution, overfishing, unsustainable fishing practices, sedimentation, acidification, and oxidative [...]

In the Pacific, there used to be hundreds of thousands in whale population. There were once nearly 100,000 grey whales. The numbers have terribly dwindled today. Sustained fishery of whales from the bays and inlets of the English Channel, as early as the onset of the Middle Ages, is a practice that began in the 9th century. The decimation of whales [...]

The first study to determine the overall state of conservation of 64 species of shark and ray-sea revealed that 32% are threatened with extinction, says IUCN. The threat comes primarily from overfishing, according to the experts. According to them, the sharks are “highly vulnerable” to this practice because it takes many years for several [...]

Occupying just one percent of the earth’s surface, the Coral Triangle holds 30 percent of the world’s coral reefs. The site is broken down into 76 percent of coral species and more than 35 percent of coral reef fish species. It is also an important spawning ground for the fishing industry top-earners such as tuna. The Coral Triangle provides livelihood [...]

Another raging problem is far more alarming than the credit crunch today. This economic meltdown has some immediate solutions that are concretely possible. The bail out is an example of an immediate and concrete solution. What surpasses this economic problem is the raging environmental problem that is currently devastating the world today. This has [...]