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Dubai Maritime City
August 05 , 2008
Adding to Dubai’s portfolio of lucrative development projects, Dubai Maritime City looks be yet another world first. Mark Burns from Property-Dubai.tv explains:
Described as the world’s first purpose built maritime centre, Dubai Maritime City is a state of the art development zone, designed to act as a regional hub for the maritime business in Dubai. A genuinely mixed use development, Dubai Maritime City will also offer a range of luxury residential and commercial opportunities ensuring that the area becomes a focal point for the near 5,000 regional maritime companies working in Dubai. As well as the residential, industrial and commercial areas, the development will also include a large maritime research academy, designed to offer the companies in the regional access to the very latest developments and technology within the marine industry.
Dubai Maritime City
As with many of the free zone development areas in Dubai, Maritime City is designed to create a regional hub of sector specific companies. Within the development, there will be a focus on six major sectors within the maritime industry: marine services, marine management, product marketing, marine research and education, recreation and ship design and manufacturing. The only facility of its kind in the world, Dubai Maritime City seems set to become a global ‘centre of excellence’ for the maritime industry.
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Attack of the Jellyfish
August 05 , 2008
Blue patrol boats cruise along the coastline of beaches huge nets skimming the water's surface. The flag is now blue- an unfamiliar color to many in beach safety, but warns of jellyfish.
Jellyfish swarm
Within only 2 weeks, 300 people on
Barcelona 's bustling beaches were treated for stings, and 11 were taken to hospitals.
Across the world, and appearing now in places unseen before, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, forcing beaches to close and clogging fishing nets.
While jellyfish invasions are a nuisance to swimmers and a hardship to fishermen, for scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining health of the world's oceans.
"These jellyfish near shore are a message the sea is sending us saying, 'Look how badly you are treating me,' " said Josep-Maria Gili, one of the world's leading jellyfish experts, who has studied them at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona for more than 20 years.
The increase is affected by numerous factors: severe overfishing of natural predators such as tuna, sharks and swordfish; rising sea temperatures caused in part by global warming; and pollution that has depleted oxygen levels in coastal shallows.
Within the past year, there have been beach closings because of jellyfish swarms on the in France, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and at Waikiki and Virginia Beach in the .
Then there is rising level of ocean pollution, which reduces oxygen levels and visibility in coastal waters. While other fish die in or avoid waters with low oxygen levels, many jellyfish can thrive in them. And while most fish need to see to catch their food, jellyfish, which filter food passively from the water, can dine in total darkness.
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Hawaii Gains National Monument Status
August 05 , 2008
1200 miles of uninhabited islands and atolls 1,200 miles northwest of the main
Hawaiian Islands have recently gained National Monument status.
Hawaian National Marine Monument
President Bush declared the area now known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Island Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve to national-monument status. This gives the region the strongest legal protections, with fishing and commercial operations being phased out over the next five years and visitors primarily limited to scientific researchers.
"It's the ocean equivalent of Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon all rolled into one," says Joshua Reichert, director of the environmental program of the Pew Charitable Trusts in
Philadelphia .
The area comprises 140,000 square miles of ocean dotted with dozens of coral reefs and tiny islands; it is a 1,400-mile-long, 100-mile-wide swath of pristine marine habitat larger than all national parks combined.
The islands and surrounding waters and atolls are nesting and breeding site to more than 14 million seabirds and home to 7,000 marine and terrestrial species, with over 25% of them found nowhere else in the world.
The area is home to the threatened Hawaiian green sea turtle and also home to the last Hawaiian monk seals, of which only 1,300 remain. The coral reefs of the region provide vital breeding and nursery habitat for numerous fish and other marine species. The area is also home to numerous ancient Hawaiian religious and archeological sites.
Bush had been expected to turn the reserve into a marine sanctuary, a process that had been underway for the past five years. The sanctuary will now be overseen and administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Although most of the islands will be closed to all but scientific researchers, a public visitation center will be created at
Midway Islands , the scene of an important World War II battle, using old military buildings to accommodate groups of visitors.
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