Japan resumes commercial whaling In December 2018 Japan announced that it would hunt and kill whales for commercial purposes in…

Japan returns to commercial whalingJapan is leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC). This is reported by Japanese media. Previously, international…

Whaling ban remainsAt the meeting of the International Whaling Commission on September, 14th 2018, Japan's application for "sustainable whaling" was…

IWC Conference in Brazil: Japan applies for "sustainable whaling"If it is up to the will of Japan, international whaling would…

Science as an excuse for whaling for commercial reasonsAs in previous years and despite international protests, Japan also killed 333…

Representatives dispatched to persuade other countries to support them The Japanese government is doing everything it can to overturn the…

Scientific? Whale Hunt Japan’s Ministry of Fisheries have announced the start of the annual hunt for minke whales off the…

Researchers officially name flea cancer "Plasticus"Only five centimetres tall, its home in about 6,500 meters depth in the Pacific Ocean…

A diving safari at its finest - in the still almost untouched waters of Djibouti and the Gulf of Tadjoura. The…

Scientists are showing a new picture of the role of viruses in the seaViruses are known primarily as pathogens of…

The scaly-foot snail occurs only in three places in the Indian OceanThe World Conservation Organization (IUCN) published an update of…

Indonesia, one of the best-loved liveaboard diving destinations in the world, has so much to offer it can be overwhelming…

Icelandic whale meat probably intended for the Japanese marketThe Icelandic Minister of Fisheries granted a permit to continue whaling on…

Fluorescent light attracts microalgaeCorals know how to attract good company. A research study has shown that corals provide a tantalizing…

Captured whales were sold to dolphinariumsRussia is the only country that catches orcas and belugas for the “dolphinarium industry”. Now…

Overfishing: Diverse fish species threatenedNature protection measures have given new hope to fin whales, according to the update of the…

Unilateral diet changes the behaviour of butterfly fishThe research team spent over 600 hours underwater observing butterfly fish for two…

Industrial whaling is cruelAt the beginning of the 67th session of the International Whaling Commission, a report by the Norwegian…

Previous regulations for the protection of the deep sea are inadequateThe new deep-sea mining regulations which are under development at…

Iceland continues to disregard biodiversityAfter a break of two years, the Icelandic whaling ship "Hvalur 8" harpooned the first fin…

Species conservation organizations are calling for EU resistance to whaling in European watersBeginning of April 2018, the annual whaling season…

Greenpeace: industrial krill fishing endangers the Southern OceanThe fishing industry is jeopardizing the ecological balance of the south polar food…

East China Sea: Oil spill from tanker "Sanchi" is spreadingThe oil spill of tanker "Sanchi" sunk in the East China…

The Solomon Islands have the credentials of an absolutely first class dive destination and are only a 3-hour direct flight…

A sea slug called Tethys fimbria If you are lucky to come across a Tethys fimbria when diving in the…

Norway's catch quota in 2017 increased from 880 to 999 Norwegian fisheries minister Per Sandberg wants to double the recently…

A proposal to establish a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic failed to receive sufficient votes for the resolution to…

Norway and Japan are doing all they can to escalate commercial whalingConservation and animal welfare organisations have confirmed that Iceland…

Together with an international team of radiation experts, Greenpeace is currently at Fukushima, measuring the amount of radioactive contamination still present in the…

Yesterday, 29 October 2015, the research ship Polarstern left its home port of Bremerhaven with 32 students from 19 countries.…