Every SCUBA diver knows that urge to get wet again… you just feel it. That urge hits some sooner than others and I can say that it tends to hit my wife sooner than I. I can safely say that it’s time to start planning your next dive trip when your wife starts finding seahorses […]
Senate Bill 724, Domestic Wastewater Discharged Through Ocean Outfalls We need your help, please forward this action alert DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN This years attempt by the Florida legislature to never let a good deed go unpunished is a renewed attack on the 2008 ocean outfall bill that outlaws the archaic practice of dumping […]
Thanks to Yoga Energy Studio for the money they raised at their monthly Yoga in Park Salutations to the Sea on Feb 14th. Their donation will go toward Reef Relief programs such as Coral Camp, and the Key West Marine Park. Thanks for helping to preserve and protect our coral reef ecosystems! See our page […]
Tune in the 4th Wednesday of every month at 2-3pm for Reef Relief’s radio show, On Deck with Reef Relief, hosted by Reef Relief’s Executive Program Director Mill McCleary and Director of Marine Projects Rudy Bonn. Go to www.konknet.com to watch or listen to the live stream.
Target: The United Nations Sponsored by: The Marine Conservation Institute and Chantecaille Beaute Corals create spectacular undersea ecosystems that are home to thousands of plant and animal species. The integrity of these “rainforests of the sea” is threatened by human activities including illegal and unsustainable fishing, global warming and pollution. Less than 1.2% of the […]
AP. TREENA SHAPIRO 02/17/2012 9:17 am (AP) — A proposal to collect fees from customers who choose disposable paper and plastic shopping bags is gaining support as it works its way through Hawaii’s Legislature. If lawmakers pass the House Bill 2260 this session, Hawaii would become the first state to enact this kind of […]
By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 15, 2012 at 10:56 am by Daniel J. Weiss As part of the FY 2013 budget released on February 13, President Obama proposed to eliminate $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas producers over the next ten years. Yesterday, the Yale Project on Climate Change reiterated its […]
by, Ian Enting Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems at University of Melbourne 12 February 2012, 10.31pm AEST. http://theconversation.edu.au James Lovelock’s “Gaia hypothesis” has challenged conventional thinking about the nature of the earth as an integrated system. Gaia proposes that the earth acts like a living organism — that […]