Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 09:25 CST www.redorbit.com More than a third of coral reef fish species are in jeopardy of local extinction from the impacts of climate change on coral reefs, a new scientific study has found. (Local extinction refers to the loss of species from individual locations, while they continue to persist elsewhere across […]
BY TIMOTHY O’HARA Citizen Staff [email protected] A national conservation group plans to sue federal fishery managers for not following through on a plan to protect 82 different species of coral, some of which are found off the Florida Keys. The Center for Biological Diversity last week filed a notice of its intent to sue the […]
MARY FOSTER Associated Press February 5, 2011, 8:54 a.m NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sales of Gulf of Mexico seafood are getting a boost from the military after being hammered by last year’s BP oil spill, which left consumers fearing the water’s bounty had been tainted. Ten products including fish, shrimp, oysters, crab cakes, and packaged […]
By MIKE SORAGHAN of Greenwire Published: February 3, 2011 The future pace of drilling approvals in the Gulf of Mexico might be slowed less by new laws or regulations stemming from last year’s massive spill but by a decades-old law that opens the door to longer environmental reviews and litigation. Read the full article
Check out The Ocean Doctor’s special guest this wee, Jean-Michel Cousteau, who leads Ocean Futures Society, a nonprofit marine conservation organization.With his team, Jean-Michel has been working for months to document the impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Listen here
The Shark Conservation Act has finally become law, giving much-needed protection to some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures. Signed by President Obama on January 4, the law closes a major loophole in an existing U.S. ban on shark finning. That gruesome practice involves fishermen cutting off sharks’ fins, which are used in soup, then […]
by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 01.28.11 Treehugger Travel & Nature Dr. Gregory Stone, Senior Vice President and Chief Ocean Scientist for Conservation International, gave an inspiring TED talk during the Mission Blue Voyage called “Saving The Ocean, One Island at a Time” during which he explained how a new strategy for protecting Kiribati’s […]
To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up oil droplets, Woods Hole […]
SEA TURTLE HOMECOMING, CLASS OF 2010: A Proactive Coastal Conservation Agenda for Florida For the people who live near the Gulf of Mexico —– and, indeed, for Americans everywhere —– the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill during the summer of 2010 will be an event forever etched in our memories. It was a time of […]
A talk by Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg on Climate Change Impacts on Ocean Ecosystems in the 21st Century from the 2011 NCSE conference in Washington, DC “Our Changing Oceans”. Watch the video