Kerala eyes more business in ornamental fish After wooing global tourists with its winding coasts, enchanting beaches and lush greenery, Kerala is now tapping its water bodies for a dramatic surge in ornamental fish trade. Blessed with a tropical climate and thousands of kilometres of backwaters, the state needs to grab a bigger slice of the global business filling up aquariums, says Kerala's Fisheries and Sports Minister Dominic Presentation. "The government has started promoting the business. The export of ornamental fishes from Kerala has increased to a great extent," Presentation told IANS in an interview. 

How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi By Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. 

URI researcher makes first observation of squid caring for eggs KINGSTON, R.I. -- December 14, 2005 -- Squid have always been considered poor parents: they lay their eggs on the seafloor and leave them to develop on their own. But a University of Rhode Island scientist has made the first observation of parental care by squid when he used a remotely operated underwater vehicle in the deep sea to watch as five squid each carried thousands of eggs in their arms.

Darwin's Nightmare is a tale about humans between the North about globalization, and about and the South, fish. Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species.

Uraganas 'Vilma' smarkiai apgadino koralų rifus Meksikos įlankoje.
Пронесшийся в минувшем месяце над Мексиканским заливом разрушительный ураган "Вильма" нанес тяжелейший урон хрупким коралловым рифам у побережья полуострова Юкатан в Мексике, и потребуется не менее столетия, прежде чем пострадавшие экологические системы смогут полностью восстановиться.

Количество разрушительных ураганов удвоилось за последние 35 лет УЭРТО-ВАЛЬЯРТА (Мексика), 3 ноя - РИА Новости, Михаил Белят. За последние тридцать пять лет количество сильных ураганов, опустошающих различные районы Земли и соответствующих 4 или 5 отметке шкалы Саффира-Симпсона, удвоилось, утверждается в одном из докладов, прозвучавших на проходящей в мексиканском городе Пуэрто-Вальярта конференции Международного союза геофизики и геодезии.

The Mercedes-Benz Bionic Car as a Concept Vehicle The boxfish – angular but nonetheless very streamlined This required teamwork: biologists, bionics scientists and automotive researchers from various disciplines embarked on an extraordinary expedition into the animal kingdom which soon led them into the depths of the underwater world – and presented them with a surprise.

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African Lakes Atlas Launched at World Lakes Event Nairobi, 31 October 2005 – The dramatic and, in some cases damaging environmental changes sweeping Africa’s lakes are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas. Produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Atlas of African Lakes compares and contrasts spectacular satellite images of the past few decades with contemporary ones.

Galėtų atrodyti, kad jei ir yra koks nors dalykas, dėl kurio mokslininkai sutaria, tai vanduo. Juk visi puikiai žino, kad vandens simbolis yra H2O, kad molekulėje du vandenilio atomai jungiasi prie vieno deguonies atomo. Argi gali būti kas nors paprastesnio?