By David Fogarty SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The World Bank announced on Friday a global alliance to better manage and protect the world's oceans, which are under threat from over-fishing, pollution and climate change. Oceans are the lifeblood of the planet and the global economy, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a conference on ocean conservation in Singapore. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionDinosaur Footprints Threatened by Natural Gas Project
By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine Fossilized dinosaur tracks that dot a remote 80-kilometre stretch of Western Australia's coastline are under threat from a proposed natural gas facility, say paleontologists. The tracks were made by multiple species of sauropod, theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs as they walked across mud flats around 130 million years ago.
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