Tag: Oceans

Surveillance aircraft and vessels are spotting, tagging and removing deadly discarded fishing nets in the ocean off northern Australia.

An airborne citizen-science program is helping researchers to keep track of whale mums and calves along the NSW coast.

Scientists aboard CSIRO research vessel will visit previously unexplored regions with a view to creating more protected marine parks.

As attempts to curb illegal fishing continue, the Border Force says it has intercepted 19 Indonesian vessels and destroyed three of them.

But conservation body warns that the new e-monitoring program will cover only part of the Australian Fishing Zone and needs to be extended.

Spending boost is part of a strategy to build healthier oceans, support marine parks and combat climate change, Prime Minister says.

Conservation movement welcomes SA officially becoming the first State or Territory in Australia to ban plastic drinking straws and cutlery.

UK-led scientists find that, despite vastly different evolution patterns, dolphins have several similar personality traits to humans.

Scientists worry that warmer seas off the coast of WA are causing its coral reefs to bleach. Great Barrier Reef is not at risk at the moment.

Practice has been temporarily banned since 2012. Now environmentalists welcome latest announcement as a win for marine life, fishing and culture.

Number of shark attacks in the US was nearly double that of Australia last year, but we had twice the number of deaths.

More than 2,600 coral fragments are being attached to a web of 165 hexagonal, sand-coated frames to form a healthy area of new reef.

Case against cargo ship’s owners dismissed by Darwin judge due to shortcoming in the Marine Pollution Act in force at the time.

Reef is separate from the Great Barrier Reef and is almost as tall as the famous Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

Corals that grew at the end of the ice age around 15,000 years ago are helping scientists to understand why the ice age ended so suddenly.