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"Application of the physical and biological sciences has made today arguably the best of times: we live longer and healthier lives, food production has doubled in the past 35 years and energy subsidies have substituted for human labour, washing away hierarchies of servitude. But the unintended consequences of these well-intentioned actions ...
Researchers discovered the first known case of a porbeagle shark likely being killed by a large shark predator, raising questions about whether this rare instance represents a larger trend.
Called Fin Spotter, it identifies individual sharks and their species in images, to track if that particular shark has been spotted before – a useful tool for conservationists trying to protect ...
Threatened sharks are those vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) is the world's oldest global environmental organization. [ 2 ] It evaluates threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories, depending on the degree ...
The Florida Museum of Natural History, which logs all the shark attacks worldwide in its Global Shark Attack File, investigated 120 interactions between sharks and humans in 2023.
Human uses of marine ecosystems and pollution in marine ecosystems are significantly threats to the stability of these ecosystems. Environmental problems concerning marine ecosystems include unsustainable exploitation of marine resources (for example overfishing of certain species), marine pollution , climate change , and building on coastal areas.
Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of ...
Human activity, such as fishing, mining, deforestation, etc., serves as a threat for coral reefs by affecting the niche of the coral reefs. For example, there is a demonstrated correlation between a loss in diversity of coral reefs by 30-60% and human activity such as sewage and/or industrial pollution.