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Tidal waves on Namkhana Island have flooded a house in West Bengal, India. natural disasters. Storms, heavy rainfall, and floods wreck havoc here. Credit: Supratim Bhattacharjee / Climate Visuals by Aishwarya Bajpai (new delhi) Monday, July 08, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, Jul 08 (IPS) – Cyclones and floods have …

The ocean affects our weather, provides us with food, and is home to countless species that we are still discovering today. It plays a vital role in the earth’s ecosystem and has many hidden wonders that are truly mind-blowing. Here are some of the most astonishing facts about the ocean …

The 60th session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB 60, UNFCCC), took place in Bonn June 3-13, with the issue of climate finance high on the agenda. Credit: UN Climate Change Lucia Vasquez Tumi Opinion by Mary Church (bonn, germany) Friday, June 28, …

Delegates say the survival of humanity is interlinked with the sustainable use of ocean and marine biodiversity resources. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, May 15 (IPS) – The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals …

Seaweed farming using the off-bottom seaweed farming approach—tying algal fonds or seaweed seeds to ropes attached between wooden pegs driven into the ocean sediment. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (mwazaro beach, kenya) Friday, March 08, 2024 Inter Press Service MWAZARO BEACH, Kenya, Mar 08 (IPS) – As the world celebrates …

Concerned residents of Ikoyi have called on the state government to rescue them from being submerged by the sea as land speculators dredge and indiscriminately sand-fill the lagoon. The situation will aggravate the already perennial flooding in some neighbourhoods in the area, they argued. The Coalition of Concerned Citizens of …

Opinion by Wavel Ramkalawan (victoria, seychelles) Thursday, September 21, 2023 Inter Press Service VICTORIA, Seychelles, Sep 21 (IPS) – For the people of Seychelles, the ocean is more than just a source of livelihood. It is also a way of life. About 80% of our homes and infrastructure are located along …

‘Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as if you were one of the people themselves; express a life that has never found expression,” was, according to the poet WB Yeats, how he persuaded the playwright John Millington Synge to discover his muse – the desolate beauty of the Aran …

The rescuers called to save the doomed Titan submersible have recalled the moment they discovered debris on the ocean floor and realized all five men onboard were dead.   Tourists Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, French Navy pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO …

Two fishermen from Neves in SaôTomē and Principe, who were lost in the Atlantic Ocean for five days, have been rescued in Brass Council Area of Bayelsa State.      The fishermen, Antonio Sabino, 51, and Osorio Pires, 41, were said to have been rescued by a trawler fishing in …