Marine Life

FILE PHOTO: A mother and calf vaquita, a critically endangered small tropical porpoise native to MexicoÕs Gulf of California, surface in the waters off San Felipe, Mexico in this handout picture taken in 2008. Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo
Offbeat

Extinction alert issued for Mexico's threatened vaquita porpoise

The Nautica, a replacement oil tanker for the decaying FSO Safer, arrives in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Adel al-Khadher/File Photo
World+Biz

Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen: UN

Photo: Collected
World+Biz

Nearly 100 pilot whales strand themselves on an Australian beach; half have died despite efforts

Infographic: TBS
By The Numbers

Biggest contributors to marine plastic pollution

FILE PHOTO: "Wuru," a four-year-old female Dugong, swims in her tank at the Sydney Aquarium June 4, 2009. Dugongs graze on sea grass in tropical waters and are sometimes labelled "Sea cows" although their closest living relative is the elephant. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
World+Biz

Nearly 10% of marine life threatened with extinction -Red List

New rainbow-coloured fish discovered off Maldives coast
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New rainbow-coloured fish discovered off Maldives coast

50 years old Bosun (a senior crewman) Anis does not care a penny about wild sea. He is obsessed with the thoughts of his beloved daughters. All of them are eligible to get married. In the next sign off, he must make that arrangement. God knows whether he can manage that or not. I took this picture in a stormy weather on north Pacific and suddenly this big wave covered us within a few seconds.
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The mariners