Aquatic ecology

Maintenance and improvement works in the Central Anatolian province of Konya's Ereğli Reeds, which is known as one of the natural habitats of flamingos and has experienced drought in the past years, have been completed.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, scientists said on April 7 in a dire warning about the threat posed by climate change to the world's largest living organism.    

Turkey has lost 10 of its lakes in the last 30 years due to climate change, drought and wrong agricultural irrigation techniques, the head of a natural protection association has said.

Over the past 10 years, ocean temperatures hit record highs.

In 2019, water temperatures in the oceans at depths of up to two kilometers were 0.075 degrees higher than the 1981-2010 average, Deutsche Welle reported.

In 2018, 5 425 million cubic meters of fresh water are abstracted in the country, which is 4.1% less than in 2017. Most notable is the reduction of surface water abstracted (4.3%), which accounts for about 90% of freshwater abstracted.

The government agency that manages Australia's Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals' condition from "poor" to "very poor" due to warming oceans.

Volunteer divers involved in the Aegean Rebreath initiative conducted a cleanup operation at the port of the Saronic island of Poros on Monday, bringing up tons of waste, including sail cloths, rubber tires, fishing nets and glass bottles.

Green algae that occurred in the sea off the western Turkish province of İzmir have caused “surprise and fear” among locals, local media reported Nov. 6. Click through for the story in photos...

The Regional Authority of the Northern Aegean has given the Ministry of Migration Policy 30 days to clean up the overcrowded Moria hot spot for migrants and refugees on the island of Lesvos, or face closure.

A chunk of hard ice north of Greenland has disappeared.