Two fishermen can spend the holidays at home after they have been bobbing around in the Caribbean Sea after three weeks being rescued by the luxury cruise ship Empress Of The Seas. Local media speak of a...
The Indonesian island of Lombok is facing a malaria outbreak after a series of earthquakes in July and August, causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes. The authorities have declared the emergency medical condition.
A sad picture on the beautiful white beach in Florida. A sea turtle was found dead in a bar stool where the animal was stuck.
World Animal Protection wants all fishnets to be provided with a personal label in 2025. The international animal protection organization calls on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations at the start of an international meeting in Rome to make the labeling of fishing nets compulsory in the fight against the massive death of animals through the nets.
In the winter weather, northern Germany, including Berlin, delivered a white Easter. On the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst (the German KNMI), 35 centimeters of snow fell locally. Such a thick suit in April was last measured in 1970.
The American government wants to raise more than two billion dollars for the construction of a new office for the FBI.
The Mexican government will use three trained dolphins to trace their endangered species, the vaquitadolfine. The help of the dolphins must ensure that the seriously endangered vaquita population is saved.
Police have arrested two men in connection with the shooting incident Thursday in the parking lot of gas station Bremberg, along the A58 in Etten-Leur. It is a man of 33 from Amsterdam and a 28-year old man from Alphen aan den Rijn. They were arrested Thursday, police said Friday.
The pollution of the Arctic deep sea is taking on worrying proportions. The amount of glass, plastic and fishing nets 2,500 meters below the surface is encountered, the last decade has increased significantly. That shows long-term study of German scientists Mine Banu Tekmann and Melanie Bergmann of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven.
Archaeologists have in the Mediterranean discovered the wreck of a 1,800 year old Roman ship. The discovery was made near the island of Cabrera, a 14 kilometers south of Mallorca. The experts told Friday in the local press that buried the wreck 70 meters deep under a mountain amphorae, the famous jugs with two handles.
A baby whale was rescued thanks to a heartwarming collaboration between care and the mother whale from drowning in an Australian shark net.
A 20-year-old from Tilburg was arrested Thursday afternoon in Etten-Leur because he is suspected of drug trafficking. The man had dozens of bags of drugs hidden in his underpants.
Undertakings Deltalinqs wants to combat the nuisance of seagulls in the port of Rotterdam with drones.
The Mexican government has undertaken a new effort to prevent the extinction of the California porpoise, the vaquita either. Before that the country is working with the World Wildlife Fund.
The Bornean orangutan was threatened seriously for years, but is now closer to extinction a big step. On the infamous Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is now 'critically endangered' after the name of the ape, the highest risk category.
The police Friday in Etten-Leur arrested a 28-year-old gunman. The man, who is a member of motorcycle No Surrender, was wanted for a violent offense. Officers saw him walking by chance.
There will meet expected several hundred fishermen sat in Urk for an action meeting. The profession is angry because her work in the North Sea is likely to be smaller and smaller by the construction of wind farms, designating nature reserves at sea and sand.
Igloo, McDonald's and other international companies in the food industry, Greenpeace pledged to involve no cod from a part of the Arctic which is no longer covered with ice. Also has some Nordic fisheries and fish processing plants with the environmental organization agreed to let the newly accessible fishing area alone.
Every year in European waters estimated 25,000 fishing nets correctly. Greenpeace has calculated that annually nets with a total length of 1,250 kilometers left in the sea, a distance of Amsterdam to the border with Belarus.
