Indo-pacific articles
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Asia-Pacific’s alarming loss of biodiversity
In recent months, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and others have pointed to an increase in food insecurity and “hunger hotspots” in various parts of Asia and the Pacific. While conflicts and climate crises can carry some of the blame, we must acknowledge that the slow but steady erosion of our region’s biodiversity is an equal or even greater threat to our future food security.
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Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
000 ABPZ20 KNHC 180515 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 PM PDT Fri May 17 2024 For the eastern North Pacificeast of 140 degrees west longitude: South of the Coast of Southwestern Mexico: An elongated area of low pressure located several hundred miles offshore of the coast of southwestern Mexico continues to produce a small area of showers and thunderstorms. This activity has become more diffuse than yesterday, and marginal environmental...
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Pacific squid flashes its huge attack 'headlights'
The Dana squid has all the tools of a top ocean predator, including a pair of brilliant "headlights" it flashes at the moment it goes in for...