Please take the time to VOTE in this online poll by the Key West Citizen about a $5-6 million feasibility study for widening the Cruise Ship channel! Please go to the link below or www.keysnews.com, then vote for A,B,C, or D. Please send this to all your friends. The poll is located at the bottom […]
By Jutarat Skulpichetrat BANGKOK | Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:51am EST BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand is closing dozens of dive sites to tourists after unusually warm seas caused severe damage to coral reefs in the Andaman Sea, one of the world’s top diving and beach resort regions, authorities said on Thursday. Read the full article
This Friday from the National Council for Science and the Environment’s ‘Our Changing Oceans’ conference in Washington DC. Broadcast about oil spill effects from 2-3pm ET. From 3-4p ET, and a look at climate change effects on the oceans. www.sciencefriday.com
News Release January 20, 2011 Two hundred forty-two cold-stunned sea turtles removed from St. Joseph Bay this winter were released Wednesday into the Gulf of Mexico off Cape San Blas in Gulf County. All were green turtles. Twenty-five Kemp’s ridleys, also rescued from the cold, will be released at a later date, along with green […]
Friday, January 14, 2011; 9:18 PM The Jan. 6 news story “As Arctic melts, U.S. ill-positioned to tap resources” highlighted the potential for U.S. exploitation of mineral resources at the top of the world. What it failed to point out is that sites proposed for drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Ocean are some of the most […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2011) — Geologists at Brown University and the University of Washington have a cautionary tale: Lose enough species in the oceans, and the entire ecosystem could collapse. Looking at two of the greatest mass extinctions in Earth’s history, the scientists attribute the ecosystems’ collapse to a loss in the variety of species […]
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:29 Written by CBC News “We’ve estimated that for every species we know about, there’s probably another three or four that we don’t know, that have never been sampled by science,” said Paul Snelgrove, a professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Ocean Science Centre who led the group that compiled […]
The Guardian, Wednesday 5 January 2011 Researchers have tracked ‘nature’s ancient mariners’ as they spend several months traveling from Africa to South America On 2 February 2009, at 4am, a turtle known as Tika set off from the coast of Gabon, west Africa. She spent almost six months swimming across the Atlantic, a 5,000-mile (8,000km) […]
By Morgan Erickson-Davis, mongabay.com January 05, 2011 A new study investigating the ability of coral to record sea temperatures indicates that the Northwestern Atlantic has experienced unprecedented warming during the past 150 years Read the full article
Commission report warns disaster ‘might well recur’ without significant reform A request by BP to set an “unusually deep cement plug” on the Gulf oil well that subsequently exploded killing 11 people was approved by the then-Minerals Management Service in just 90 minutes, according to a presidential commission report on the disaster. Read the full […]