Veille 2.1

The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030

Vladimir Poutine a entériné, lundi 11 mars, la dénonciation de l’accord permettant depuis 1956 aux pêcheurs du Royaume-Uni d’opérer dans les eaux russes de la mer de Barents. Or, comme le pointe la presse, plusieurs centaines de milliers de tonnes de cabillaud ont été puisées par les Britanniques dans la région arctique l’an dernier.

We are a species that is superb at killing, says veteran oceanographer, who calls for us to stop treating fish like crops and give them the respect they deserve

L'Ouganda a lancé mardi ses premières activités de forage dans les champs pétroliers de Kingfisher, au lac Albert, accédant ainsi au rang de producteur de brut avec un mégaprojet critiqué par les défenseurs de l'environnement. Le président Yoweri Museveni a lancé "le début de la campagne de forage sur le champ pétrolier de Kingfisher (dans l'ouest de l'Ouganda, ndlr) qui devrait produire 40 000 barils de pétrole par jour" en 2025, a annoncé sur Twitter l'autorité ougandaise du pétrole.

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

Lost nets, lines and hooks trap wildlife for years as they float in the ocean, sink to the bottom or are washed ashore

Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth’s climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. Here, we use climate, crop and fishery models to estimate the impacts arising from six scenarios of stratospheric soot injection, predicting the total food calories available in each nation post-war after stored food is consumed. In quantifying impacts away from target areas, we demonstrate that soot injections larger than 5 Tg would lead to mass food shortages, and livestock and aquatic food production would be unable to compensate for reduced crop output, in almost all countries. Adaptation measures such as food waste reduction would have limited impact on increasing available calories. We estimate more than 2 billion people could die from nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and more than 5 billion could die from a war between the United States and Russia—underlining the importance of global cooperation in preventing nuclear war.

Restaurant menus across the West Coast of Canada will soon see an influx of squid and sardine dishes, while the popular sockeye salmon makes a slow exit. As it turns out, climate change may have something to do with this.

Activisten van Ocean Rebellion hielden gisteren (zondag) een last minute pleidooi voor de EU-ministers om het mariene ecosysteem te redden. Drie activisten hadden pakken aan en vismaskers op die dropen van het bloed en de ingewanden, twee andere activisten waren verkleed als vissers. De drie 'vissenkoppen' stonden in plassen bloed en dode vissen voor het Berlaymontgebouw van de Europese Commissie. Ze droegen koffers met de slogans 'WAR ON FISH', 'ECOCIDE' en 'END OVERFISHING'.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday.

The world’s coral reef cover has halved since the 1950s, ravaged by global heating, overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction, according to an analysis of thousands of reef surveys. From the 1,430-mile (2,300km) Great Barrier Reef in Australia to the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean, coral reefs and the diversity of fish species they support are in steep decline, a trend that is projected to continue as the planet continues to heat in the 21st century.

There are significant causes for concern regarding the content of oxygen in the ocean, however. The ocean’s O2 reservoir is vulnerable because it holds less than 1% of the oxygen stored in the atmosphere. In particular, ocean regions with very low or absent oxygen, referred to as oxygen minimum zones, expand as the planet warms,

Salmon in the Columbia River were exposed to unlivable water temperatures that caused them to break out in angry red lesions and white fungus in the wake of the Pacific north-west’s record-shattering heatwave, according to a conservation group that has documented the disturbing sight.

Behind the headlines about billionaire jaunts into space, there's a deeper motivation – the belief that spreading into the cosmos will save humanity's future. How did this idea emerge?

Le 26 mai 2021, un Tribunal de district néerlandais a ordonné à la société Royal Dutch Sehll de réduire ses émissions de CO2 de 45 % d'ici 2030, par rapport aux niveaux de 2019. Compte tenu des répercussions que l'arrêt Urgenda, rendu par le même Tribunal à l'encontre de l'Etat néerlandais en 2015, a déjà eues dans le développement du contentieux climatique dans plusieurs Etats européens, dont la France, cette décision Shell suscite déjà l'intérêt.