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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Forty-six small whales stranded on a beach in Indonesia have died, after rescue efforts succeeded in saving three others, local officials said Friday. Starting Thursday, at least 49 short-finned pilot whales arrived at a beach on Madura Island in northern Java, authorities said in a statement. Large crowds gathered as a rescue operation was launched, with volunteers using tarpaulins or just their bare hands to try to push the pod […]
BYRON BAY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s Byron Bay usually conjures images of bathers lounging on sunkissed shores, or blissed-out longboarders cruising along cyan-blue waves — but coastal erosion and lashing storms have reduced its seashore to a debris-strewn slither. The tourist hotspot’s main beach has been reduced to a thin strip by a sand-shifting phenomenon known as “headland bypassing”. Recent wild storms have then eroded it further. For more than six months, residents have watched […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — The glittering Thai bay immortalized in the movie “The Beach” will be closed indefinitely to allow it to recover from the impact of hordes of tourists, an official said Wednesday, as a temporary ban on visitors expired. Maya Bay, ringed by cliffs on Ko Phi Phi Ley island, was made famous when it featured in the 2000 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It was initially shut for four months in June due […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A clean-up operation was under way in Hong Kong Monday after a massive palm oil spillage from a ship collision in mainland Chinese waters clogged some of its most popular beaches. The coast was coated with rancid-smelling sticky white clumps of the oil as it washed in Sunday, with 11 beaches still closed to swimmers Monday in the height of a summer heatwave. There are still lumps of the solidified oil […]
MARIVELES, Bataan (Eagle News) – Matagumpay na naisagawa ang coastal clean-up drive ng mga kabataang miyembro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Matel Beach, Mariveles, Bataan noong Linggo, April 2. Isinagawa ang nasabing aktibidad upang makatulong sa Lokal na Pamahalaan ng Mariveles sa pagpapanatili ng kalinisan sa kapaligiran. Makaiiwas din aniya ang publiko na pumupunta sa beach sa anumang uri ng sakit dulot ng maruming basura naitatapon sa dagat. Larry Biscocho – EBC Correspondent, Bataan
(Eagle News) — A waste and pollution watch group exhorted the public to refrain from littering in beaches and other recreational spots this summer. The EcoWaste Coalition asked tourists to aim for “zero marine litter,” especially in coastal areas. “We appeal to all vacationers not to abandon their discards in our beaches and other recreational sites.Leave only your footprints in the sands. Please don’t leave your cigarette butts, plastics and leftover foods behind, ” said Ochie Tolentino, […]
(Eagle News) — Dismayado ang ilang turista sa Boracay, bunsod umano ng maka-kapal na algae o lumot sa dalampasigan ng isla dahil sa halip na malinaw ay berdeng kulay ng tubig ang kanilang nakikita. Ayon sa ilang turista, sana ay maalagan ang dagat , dahil aniya pangit nang tingnan at kailangang lumayo para maging malinaw ang tubig. Sinabi ng mga residente na nakikita ang algae sa dagat tuwing Enero hanggang Marso, subalit nawawala naman aniya […]
by Hamza Turkia with Rim Taher in Tripoli Agence France Presse HARCHA, Libya (AFP) — The bodies of 74 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe have washed up on a beach west of the Libyan capital, the Red Crescent said Tuesday. Residents of the village of Harcha, outside Zawiya, 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Tripoli, alerted the emergency services after finding a wrecked boat on the beach with bodies inside, the […]
by Zoé LEROY SAINT-OMER, France (AFP) — A woman who claimed that witchcraft caused her to leave her baby to drown on a beach in northern France was on Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail. Fabienne Kabou, 39, had faced life imprisonment for the November 19, 2013, murder, but the court deemed that she suffered from impaired judgement. The court in the town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, also ordered Kabou to undergo psychological treatment […]
(Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs have been washing up on Southern California beaches, marring the sandy coastline with streaks of red, as warm ocean currents carry them farther north and closer to shore than usual. The red tuna crabs have been dying in hordes on beaches from San Diego to Orange County, although some have been washed back out to sea alive. Such strandings take place periodically and are not necessarily a threat to […]
