Billions of corals were witnessed spawning at the coast of Cairns, Queensland. The spawning event of corals in the Great Barrier Reef is indeed a regeneration of hope for the world’s largest coral reef system, which has been bearing the brunt of global warming-caused ocean
An oil pipeline leakage off the coast of Southern California near Huntington Beach caused more than 125,000 gallons of oil to spill into the Pacific Ocean putting the wildlife habitats in the utmost danger. Dead fishes and birds were witnessed washing away along the coast.
The devastating 2019-20 bushfire season in Australia wreaked havoc in coastal regions of Victoria and New South Wales and killed or displaced billions of animals including koalas and kangaroo. While the fires destroyed biodiversity on the land, smoke from the 2019-20 Australian bushfire caused a
The world has condemned the massacre of almost 1500 dolphins in the Faroe Islands as part of a merciless traditional hunt. Over the weekend, 1428 dolphins were butchered under the latest ‘grindadrap’ hunt on the island of Eysturoy. The hunt is a Faroese tradition of
Coral reefs are diminishing in Puerto Rico due to a disease called Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) that causes coral tissue loss, therefore an ecological state of emergency have been declared on the island. Puerto Rico consists of the main island of Puerto Rico
Blue whales are now returning to Spain after an absence of over 40 years, following the local extinction of the species by whaling industry in 1970s. Reportedly, one of world’s largest mammals was spotted off the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain in 2017 by
The rapidly changing climate and rising temperatures have surely threatened all the living beings on the planet. According to a recent research, marine life is under severe threat as up to 95 percent of earth’s ocean surface climates may disappear by 2100 unless humankind eliminates
Sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) has been declared critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. It is the only species of its genus and is one of the world’s largest sea stars. Since 2013 this species has lost more
Indian scientists have discovered a new ‘mermaid’ plant species in the Andaman archipelago, a find that has been marked as the first discovery of a new algae species in the Andaman Islands in nearly forty years. Andaman and Nicobar Islands are known as biodiversity hotspots,
Water contamination through chemicals has become a common occurrence these days – from shipwreck oil spills to gas leaks setting oceans on fire. In the most recent episode, approximately 96,000 fish were killed after a leak of 4,000 gallons of chlorine from the Grieg Seafood