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February 28, 1:21 PM
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The island is facing months or possibly years of critical water scarcity, experts say.
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December 7, 2018 8:06 AM
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The Pew Charitable Trusts, Seas At Risk, Oceana and others jointly signed the letter calling for commitments which would see EU fisheries fulfill CFP targets
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August 29, 2018 7:53 AM
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Boats are damaged and stones thrown as French and UK fishermen duel in the English Channel.
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June 27, 2018 1:45 PM
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Vineyard surveying with the WingtraOne drone helps to make better decisions, and possibly even better wine?
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June 22, 2016 11:19 AM
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Marine engines News Article US Navy 'Green Fleet' Fills up with Italian-made Biofuel
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May 30, 2016 11:59 AM
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Despite the many domestic and market challenges facing the Hellenic ship owning community, Greece has continued to strengthen |
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January 29, 2015 1:48 AM
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This report provides an ex post evaluation for the existing Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) between the European Union (EU) and the Republic of Kiribati. The Protocol concerns the access to Kiribati waters of a maximum of 4 purse seiners and 6 surface longliners flying the flag of any EU Member State for fishing of highly migratory species. The evaluation considers the Protocol in terms of its effectiveness, efficiency, economy, coherence and acceptability. It also provides an ex ante evaluation to support the potential negotiation and implementation of a new Protocol. The current Protocol is applicable for 3 years between 16 September 2012 and 15 September 2015. The total EU minimum financial contribution considered includes annual payments by the EU of EUR 1 325 000 comprising an annual amount for the access to Kiribati fishing zone of EUR 975 000 (74%) for a reference tonnage of 15 000 tonnes and EUR 350 000 (26%) for the support and implementation of Kiribati’s sectoral policy. EU vessels utilising the agreement contribute to the financial transfers to Kiribati budget with payments of access fees and other contributions towards management costs of the agreement (e.g. observers remunerations) amounting up to a minimum of EUR 1.7 million. ... Final report: http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/documentation/studies/kiribati-2014/doc/evaluations-kiribati_en.pdf Fisheries - European Commission
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October 25, 2014 2:23 AM
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In the early months of this year, a series of fierce storms battered Europe's western seaboard. Seabirds struggle to feed in rough water, and some 40,000 of them soon washed up dead on beaches. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of such storms, so to understand the impact of global warming on ecosystems, we need to analyse the long-term biological impact of these events. Until recently, I was in an excellent position to do this. For more than 40 years, I have studied populations of guillemots on Skomer Island, off the coast of Wales. My research has revealed, for example, that the birds now breed two weeks earlier than they did in the 1970s, probably owing to climate change. This kind of research is not easy. It has taken four decades to accumulate the data necessary to understand how the population works because to do so requires accurate measures of how long adult guillemots live, how many chicks they produce, how old they are when they breed, what proportion of young birds survive to breed and so on. No more. Funding for the project has been axed. As it stands, I have no money to pay a research assistant to help me identify and count exactly how many of the birds have managed to survive the storms. To assess the storms' effects, we need to gather data from the 2015 breeding season to feed into the statistical models we use to calculate survival. It is frustrating that officials chose this moment to terminate our funding, when we have such an important opportunity to assess the vulnerability of seabirds to climate change. Guillemots are one of our most abundant seabirds, and they are excellent indicators of the quality of the marine environment. For example, they are desperately vulnerable to oil pollution, and tens of thousands have died in oil spills such as those resulting from the sinking of the Torrey Canyon (1967) and Erika (1999) oil tankers. Partly as a consequence of such disasters, guillemot numbers have fluctuated widely over the past 80 years….The current focus by the main funding bodies on what they consider economically useful research with a quick return is short-sighted. When my study started in the 1970s, climate change was barely on anyone's radar. The main benefit of long-term studies is that they allow researchers to address problems that no one has yet imagined. If we are to have any hope of conserving species, we need to understand them, and we need to understand the way they are affected by environmental change….
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September 11, 2014 12:49 PM
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On behalf of the French Government, Mr. Xavier sticker, Ambassador for the Environment, signed on 4 September 2014, an agreement with the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) on the coastal zone management of the department of Var.
With this agreement, the Var becomes the first French department of the Mediterranean coast to lay the foundation for a fully integrated coastal zone management program, with the close coordination of all stakeholders: the government departmental services, local authorities, and in particular the General Council, the Conservatoire du Littoral, the Regional Water Agency, the regional environmental Agency, IFREMER, the National Park of Port-Cros as well as the UNEP/MAP, which will provide assistance.
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February 12, 2014 10:46 PM
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THE study, carried out at the University of Aberdeen, found that after initial investigations into oil spills there is not always an assessment of the long term effects on areas such as the ecosystem and marine life.
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January 29, 2014 6:50 AM
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Environmentalists say swaths of Southeastern woodlands are being cut down for green energy efforts across Atlantic
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December 7, 2013 10:49 AM
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LONDON (AP) â€" Hundreds of people in Britain mopped up flooded homes on Friday after a powerful storm that scoured northern Europe with hurricane-force gusts kicked up the biggest tidal surge in 60 years, swamping stretches of shoreline.
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The project is the world’s largest experiment in coastal storm and flood defense at a time when climate change is causing seas to rise and storms to intensify.
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November 14, 2018 10:20 AM
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The Government wants supermarkets and other manufacturers and producers to pay more towards the cost of collecting and recycling the estimated 11million tons of package waste produced in the UK. Under a new waste strategy, one option is to increase ‘contributions’ from retailers and producers from £70million a year to between £500million and £1billion. There are also plans to increase the number of companies that contribute from the current 7,000, the Guardian said.
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August 12, 2018 3:22 PM
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A walker found the "odd-looking" sea creatures while walking on a Cornish beach.
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May 23, 2018 12:13 PM
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It's not every day that an amateur gardener's observations become the subject of scientific study. But one keen-eyed French naturalist named Pierre Gros has managed to alert professional entomologists to a long-ignored giant predatory worm invasion. In a Peer J study published on May 22, "Giant worms chez moi!" zoologist Jean-Lou Justine of the Muséu
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December 21, 2016 2:34 PM
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VICE Serbia tries to track down the fishermen who use military-grade explosives to catch fish, despite the health risks and environmental damage it causes.
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June 1, 2016 10:39 AM
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The prison sentence against the former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner for his role in the deadly 2012 shipwreck was
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March 11, 2016 11:25 AM
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Without an end to the wave of people fleeing warfare Syria and elsewhere for a new future, it can be easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering. From the Greek island of Kos, photographer Jörg Brüggemann captured jarring juxtapositions on beaches shared by vacationers and refugees alike.
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January 6, 2015 7:56 AM
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LONDON (AP) — Eight crew members are presumed dead after a cargo ship capsized and sank north of Scotland. Rescuers have called off the search for the crew of the Cyprus-registered cement carrier Cemfjord, whose upturned hull was...
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October 21, 2014 12:15 AM
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Swedish Royal Navy vessels searched for an underwater intruder in the island-studded waters east of Stockholm on Monday after three sightings of a suspicious vessel and media reports of a Russian-language distress signal four days ago.
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February 7, 2014 11:28 PM
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A team of British scientists have found what they believe to be the oldest human footprints in Europe, dating back at least 800,000 years.
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January 25, 2014 1:19 PM
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The plight of the Lyubov Orlova has grabbed the imagination of the media with its tale of cannibal rats" aboard an abandoned vessel drifting in the north Atlantic -- possibly toward the U.K.
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