Source: The Phuket Gazette
March 8, 2010

Phuket, Thailand - Four residents of a Sea Gypsy community in Rawai were arrested yesterday for smuggling protected marine species.

The suspects, 34-year-old Pichit Bangjak and three minors, were arrested at 11am in a pickup truck parked along Thepkrasattri Road in Rassada, near...

Source: Elites TV
March 5, 2010

Contemporary in-depth sequencing of environmental samples has provided novel insights into microbial community structures, revealing that their diversity had been previously underestimated. Communities in marine environments are commonly composed of a few dominant taxa and a high number of taxonomically diverse, low-abundance organisms....

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Source: The Washington Post
February 5, 2010

Tokyo, Japan - Japan and the United States keep rubbing each other the wrong way. Last fall, it was a quarrel—still unresolved—over the location of a noisy U.S. military airfield in Okinawa. This year, the stormy U.S. reaction to Toyota's...

Source: Environment News Service
March 4, 2010

Washington, D.C. - A proposal to ban all international commercial trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna at this month's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES, has the support of the United States, a senior U.S. fisheries official said...

Source: FIS
March 5, 2010

The U.S. Department of State denied Mexico the certification to export wild shrimp to that country in considering that it does not count on protection measures for marine turtles during trawler fishing.

Thus informed the Federal Office of Environment Protection (PROFEPA) and the National Aquaculture...