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The Chennai Oil Spill: A Lesson for India's Maritime Agencies.

Une tonne de déchets toxiques déversée le long des côtes somaliennes ne coûte que 2,50 $. C'est la décharge la moins chère du monde avec des bénéfices confortables pour les occidentaux. Des centaines de Somaliens tombent malades. Qui déverse ces déchets? Qui en tire profit? Deux journalistes italiens sont morts pour avoir posé ces questions. Enquête sur les réseaux où collaborent hommes d'affaires et criminels, les pirates somaliens et les trafics entourant la gestion des déchets nucléaires.

Sri Lanka, India and Maldives take part in trilateral maritime exercise.

Pipeline oil leak off Mumbai coast plugged: firm.

Oil slick spreads from sunken ship off Mumbai.

Bunbury dolphins face increased water noise, boat disturbance, and tourist traffic from new projects Female dolphins stay in estuaries for food, and s...

Bunbury dolphins face increased water noise, boat disturbance, and tourist traffic from new projects Female dolphins stay in estuaries for food, and s...

Stay away from these three beaches in Mumbai, your trash is making the water toxic.

Ship noise and development could disturb nursing humpbacks during a crucial time.

Run-off from fertilisers has made Bay of Bengal reach 'tipping point', say experts.

Why your flip flops are killing the oceans.

Death by noise: Sound of ships kills marine mammals in Mumbai.

Whale sharks off the western coast of India have suffered high levels of fishing pressure in the past, and today continue to be caught in small-scale fisheries as by-catch. Additionally, coastlines in this region host very large and growing human populations that are undergoing rapid development. This exacerbates ongoing anthropogenic threats to this species such as pollution, habitat loss, and ship traffic. For these reasons, there is an urgent need for data on movement patterns of whale sharks in this region of the Indian Ocean. Here, we address this issue by providing the first data on the horizontal movements of whale sharks tagged in the northern Arabian Sea off the western coast of the Indian state of Gujarat. From 2011 to 2017, eight individuals, ranging from 5.4 to 8 m were tagged and monitored using satellite telemetry. Tag retention varied from 1 to 137 days, with the sharks traveling distances of 34 - ∼2,230 km. Six of the eight individuals remained close to their tagging locations, although two sharks displayed wide ranging movements into the Arabian Sea, following frontal zones between water masses of different sea surface temperatures. We explore the relationship between the movement patterns of these whale sharks and the physical and biological processes of the region.

Tropical ecosystems sustain higher biodiversity and face faster species extinction. However, baseline information of these areas is either inadequate or scattered due to various reasons. The 2,360 km long coast of North West India (NWI), is a heavily industrialized and urbanized zone. This coast with unique biogeographical and climatic features with two notified marine protected areas also supports rich biodiversity. This review was motivated by a need to construct a synoptic view on marine benthic ecology and functioning by consolidating available information of macrobenthos. Two thousand seventy-eight macrobenthic taxa belonging to 14 phyla were compiled from 147 references and were composed mostly by Polychaeta (n = 617), Gastropoda (n = 602), and Bivalvia (n = 216). Habitat wise, intertidal and subtidal zones were more intensely studied and contributed most to the diversity records. Sediment texture and salinity were the major drivers of macrobenthic community structure in the subtidal areas and estuaries, respectively. In the intertidal zones, zonation patterns related to the tidal levels and time of exposure were distinct with the high water zones being sparsely populated and lower intertidal zones sustaining higher species and functional diversities. All zones of NWI coast were distinctly impacted to various extent by anthropogenic activities affecting the resident macrobenthos. Decline in species richness and species substitution due to pollution were reported in urbanized zones. Non-monsoonal months favored a more conducive environment for the macrobenthic diversity and functionality. Hypoxia tolerant polychaete species mainly belonging to Spionidae and Cossuridae dominated during the low oxygen conditions of upwelling and OMZ zones of NWI. Inadequate identification and inconsistency of sampling methods were major deterrents for concluding trends of distributions. Suggestions for future macrobenthic research include focusing on lesser studied groups and are