Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, May 8, 2022: Yesterday, Saturday, May 7, a so-called ‘grindadrap’ (whale drive-hunt) occurred on the Faroe Islands for the first time this year. Eyewitnesses report that an entire school consisting of about 60 pilot whales was killed at the...
Zurich/Vienna/Berlin, 26th April 2022 Ocean noise is an invisible pollutant mainly caused by shipping, offshore oil and gas exploration, deep-sea mining and military activities. On the occasion of the International Noise Awareness Day (27th of April), OceanCare...
Update on whale strandings in Corfu On the 20th and 21st of February, three live Cuvier’s beaked whales stranded on Corfu. This highly atypical stranding coincided with seismic hydrocarbon exploration in ‘Block 3’ on behalf of the oil company Hellenic Petroleum. Corfu...
Nairobi, KEN — The conclusion of UNEA 5.2 saw the adoption of a landmark mandate calling for the development of a global treaty on plastics. “End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument” is a comprehensive, ambitious mandate that lays...
Zrich/Vienna/Berlin, February 28th 2022 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today releases the important contribution by Working Group II to its 6th Assessment report – ‘Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’. It concludes that...
Corfu, Berlin, Zurich, Vienna on 20.2.2022: Coinciding with seismic activities off Corfu, Greece, two Cuvier’s beaked whales stranded on beaches of the popular holiday island this morning – on International Whale Day – in a distance of 30 kilometres. One animal was...
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