Posts Tagged ‘aquatic’

Over 7% of aquatic birds on IUCN Red List

TEHRAN – According to the report of the national census, about 7.2 percent of the total population of aquatic birds are included in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Source

Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors: The scary plan to militarize ocean life

     The US military has plans to create genetically modified marine organisms that can be used as underwater spies for the military. Fantastic as this idea may seem, the Pentagon’s research arm, DARPA (or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), has actually launched a new program that aims to tap into the “natural sensing capabilities” of […]

The big 2010 oil spill killed aquatic life and ecosystems; now it’s killing the cleanup crew

(Natural News) The dispersants used during the cleanup of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill have made the cleanup workers sick. This was the conclusion that federal scientists came to in their study that was published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The report is a part of the ongoing Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) study being spearheaded […]

ISIS offers $50,000 reward for head of Bulgaria’s ‘migrant hunter’

ISIS has put a $50,000 bounty on the head of a self-styled ‘migrant hunter’ who organises gangs of vigilantes to patrol and hunt down illegal asylum seekers in Bulgaria. Dinko Valev, 29, uses two armoured vehicles to patrol territory near the city of Yambol, close to the border with Turkey. But now it has been […]

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