But I wonder: If Westerners had ignored Japan’s whaling, would its whaling have died sooner, of its own internal economic problems? via Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina. . . . → Read More: Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina
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By Dr. M, on  March 17th, 2011  One comment  Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government  Japan, whaling By Dr. M, on March 17th, 2011 2 comments Environmental Sciences, Geology, Natural Disaster, Uncategorized earthquake, Honshu tsunami, Sendai earthquake, tsunami Before you watch the videos below I urge you to head over to Highly Allochthonous. Chris Rowan has two excellent posts explaining the geology behind the earthquake, tsunami and aftershocks of the Sendai earthquake. I also liked the Georneys and AGU Blogosphere posts (hat tip to Chris for pointing me in their direction). You … . . . → Read More: Tsunami Video Roundup
By Dr. M, on March 16th, 2011 3 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Industry & Government, Mining, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Cindy Lee Van Dover, deep sea, Hydrothermal Vent, mineral, mining, Nautilus In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Van Dover compared the deep sea to America’s Wild West and cautioned that wildlife losses could be similar if mining companies and the International Seabed Authority — the regulatory agency in charge of the ocean’s mineral resources — fail to establish environmentally sound mining practices before deep-sea … . . . → Read More: Deep-Sea Mining is Coming
I for one welcome our new future. No longer will we have to choose between tanks and submarines when we need to go to the grocery store on the other side of an ocean that’s also being shot at. via Submarine with tank treads would be utterly unstoppable | DVICE. . . . → Read More: Submarine with Tank Treads
You are fish. The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly. Your defense? You cough up enough loogies to coat yourself in a protective layer of joyous mucus. Of course you are not a fish and fish don’t need to cough 1,000′s of thick loogies. If you were … . . . → Read More: A Blanket of Mucus
By Miriam Goldstein, on March 15th, 2011 2 comments Conservation & Environment, Fishing Chris Len, estuaries, extinction, functinal extinction, Guest Post, oysters, poop When the media got all kerfluffled about the functional extinction of wild oysters about a month ago, I asked Chris Len to write a guest post about the dirty, dirty truth. Chris is the staff attorney for NY/NJ Baykeeper and Hackensack Riverkeeper. Like a Combo snack, he is two delicious salty things in … . . . → Read More: Guest Post: On wild oysters, the headlines that came 100 years too late, and turning poop-water into salty Evian
By Miriam Goldstein, on March 14th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Fish, Weird California, dieoffs, domoic acid, HABs, harmful algal blooms, oxygen, Pseudo-nitzschia, Sardines About 5 days ago, a huge school of sardines found their way into King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA (near Los Angeles), used up all the oxygen, and died of suffocation. While the harbor tries to vacuum and scoop up the vast number of dead rotting fish (want to volunteer?), scientists are trying to … . . . → Read More: Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae
By Dr Bik, on March 13th, 2011 3 comments Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill I just wanted to remind everyone that BP is still running ads like this on TV. When this came on, my mouth literally dropped and I yelled “Seriously, BP?” I worry that these tug-at-the-heartstring PR campaigns will subtly become more effective as time goes on–time heals all wounds, right? We’re getting … . . . → Read More: Seriously, BP?
I’m blogging from an Amtrak train en route from New York City to Washington DC for a series of donor and partner meetings through the weekend. But it has been challenging to stay focused while thinking about my staff, colleagues, and friends throughout the Pacific Rim following last night’s (Eastern time) massive earthquake and … . . . → Read More: First Thoughts On Honshu Tsunami
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