The 2010 Thailand Pollution Report, as summarized in a Friday, June 24, 2011 article in the Bangkok Post, reveals that, compared to the previous year, the nation's rivers have become more polluted, with air quality in major cities such as Bangkok that has also worsened.  

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/243884/water-quality-getting-worse-in-major-rivers


President of Honduras Porfirio Lobo Sosa on Friday, June 24 signed into law a measure that designates the country’s 240,000 square kilometers of Pacific and Caribbean coasts as a permanent shark sanctuary.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/honduran-president-lobo-sosa-announces-permanent-shark-
sanctuary-124494793.html


A United Nations report released on June 23, 2011 describes in detail the environmental dilemma of marine plastic debris, whose toxic properties and small particle size create a growing hazard for marine life ingestion, along with its dispersion making it nearly impossible to remove from the sea.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10734465
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2011/2011-02-17-02.html