Archive for Archive for February 2nd, 2008
FAO warns of ‘alarming’ loss of mangroves
Mangrove swamps have shrunk by an “alarming” rate though their disappearance is slowing with improved awareness of their importance to biodiversity, the UN food agency said on Thursday.”The world has lost around 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of mangroves since 1980, equivalent to an alarming 20 percent loss of total mangrove area,” the Rome-based [...]
New technology may bring aquaculture to new territory
Seafood could start moving from coasts to cow pastures, and it won’t be crawling on any vestigial limbs; scientists have found ways to grow the ocean’s bounty on dry land. Now they have to make it turn a profit.
Cutting-edge research at Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Aquaculture Research is making tank-based, inland fish farming cheaper, [...]
