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Imposing giants HUMPHEAD wrasses (also known as Napoleon or Maori wrasse) are among the most beautiful, yet bizarre-looking, fish in the sea. With their bulbous lips, prominent forehead humps and a body pattern consisting of swirls, spots and lines in shadesof electric blue, grey and green, humpheads rank high on recre ational divers’ “must see”…

Eaten to the brink The Asian craving for a particular reef fish is emptying our seas. HUNDREDS of fish cages bob up and down in the waters of Marudu Bay, off Kudat in 5abah. In these cages are sought-after marine delicacies such as groupers, lobsters and crabs, as well as a staggering number of humphead…

Chinese farmers collecting dead fish hauled from a pond polluted by nearby factory discharges in south-west China’s Chongqing municipality last month. China faces a daunting task reaching its own goals to curb profligate energy use and serious pollution due to stubborn resistance in the booming industrial sector.

File photo of fishermen transporting a load of harvested shark fins aboard a small outrigger from the port of Jolo town in the southern Philippine island of Sulu. Last month, the Philippines expressed alarm over the commercial hunting of the thresher shark, considered a vulnerable species worldwide. philippine wildlife officials said there had been a…

View of the Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir river in Cordoba, southern Spain.The 331m bridge was built by the Romans in the first century AD and remodelled last year. Records show Spain is experiencing one of its driest springs.

Water woesA woman filling jugs with water at a water distribution point in the Nuguru Go Down Slum in Kampala. The United Nations declared 2008 the international Year of Sanitation, and it made use of international Water Day on March 21 to highlight the issue. “In teh world today, there are 15 million deaths caused…

Clogged canals Scavengers collecting polythene and other recyclable items from a polluted canal in downtown Jakarta. Jakarta’s water supply has suffered from regular cuts in recent years as pollution enters its main source of water through canals where communities live alongside, as well as from rivers that cross it on their way to the Java…

Males are largely blue, Females appear grey CAPTIVE-breeding has raised the numbers of a rare butterfly species. Trouble is, there are not many places to release them. Last year, an estimated 220 of the Palos Verdes blues butterflies existed in the wild in California, so few that experts feared they could be wiped out by…