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How Chilean fishermen adapted to protect marine life
LONDON, UK, 19 September 2017 (BBC) - Chile created one of the world's largest marine protection areas earlier this month off the coast of Easter Island after the indigenous Rapa Nui population voted in favour of the scheme. |
Giant sea snail plan to rescue Barrier Reef
SYDNEY, Australia, 18 September 2017 (AFP) - A giant starfish-eating snail could be unleashed to help save the Great Barrier Reef, officials said Monday, with a trial underway to breed thousands of the rare species. |
Oil palm firms advance into Leuser rainforest
SAN FRANCISCO, US, 18 September 2017 (Mongabay) - Oil palm plantation companies are still eating away at the Leuser Ecosystem, one of Indonesia’s last best rainforests, despite a provincial ban on forest clearance to make way for the lucrative estates. |
Irma leaves UK's Caribbean tax havens relying on volunteers
LONDON, UK, 16 September 2017 (Guardian) - Heavy rainfall, mosquito infestations and flooding are bringing fresh misery to beleaguered survivors of Hurricane Irma, a week on from the storm which brought devastation to the Caribbean last week. |
Refugee surge on Greek islands
BONN, Germany, 16 September 2017 (DW) - Aid groups are once again struggling to accommodate a rising number of people arriving on the Greek islands to request asylum. |
The Florida Keys are the canaries in the climate-change coalmine
LONDON, UK, 15 September 2017 (Guardian) - The Florida Keys are still closed until further notice. On the far side of the blockade that inhabitants of the lower Keys negotiate to return to their homes, the US One highway, a tarmac spine over the limestone vertebrae of the islands, makes its way 127 miles down to Key West, battered and torn. |
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