The view from my DUMBO loft Dec 2000 There’s nothing quite like the excitement of moving to a new city and getting your first apartment, and for me as for so many others, that feeling is amplified when the city in question is New York. So it was when I moved from Brisbane to Brooklyn . . . → Read More: FEATURED POST: A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
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By para_sight, on  January 5th, 2012  5 comments  Dumping, Oil Spills, Plastic, Ramblings  Brooklyn, EPA, Gowanus, New York, NYC, pollution By Dr. M, on April 6th, 2011 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Fish, Industry & Government contamination, Fukushima, Japan, meltdown, Nuclear, pollution, Radiation Go back to work there is nothing to see here Japanese authorities said Tuesday they had discovered for the first time fish swimming off the country’s Pacific coast carrying high levels of radioactive materials. The finding, the latest blow from the nuclear crisis, is stoking concerns about environmental damage to local marine life, the safety . . . → Read More: Japan Finds Radiation in Fish
By Dr. M, on April 4th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government earthquake, Fukushima Daiichi, Japan, Nuclear, tsunami And in other disturbing news today Japanese engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been forced to release radioactive waste water into the sea…Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was forced on Monday to release low-level radioactive seawater that had been used to cool overheated fuel rods after it ran out of storage . . . → Read More: Japan Releases Radioactive Water Into Sea
By Dr. M, on February 24th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Fishing, Industry & Government extinction, Overfishing, oysters, reef Add this to your growing list of Earth going to hell Enjoy your shucking while it lasts. Wild oysters are now “functionally extinct” in many places around the world where they were once plentiful. More than 85 per cent of their reefs have been lost due to overfishing, according to a new study via Wild . . . → Read More: Wild Oysters Functionally Extinct?
By Dr. M, on December 8th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government, Megavertebrate, Oil Spills, Plastic fuck the planet, Pollutant, total bullshit, whale Not so smug now are you! Not so big and charismatic now! Your just a free living fat sack of pollutants! Suck on that! A Texas Tech University whale researcher said she and others found evidence of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs and persistent organic pollutants, including the pesticide DDT, in Pacific Ocean-dwelling sperm . . . → Read More: F U Pacific Sperm Whales
By Dr. M, on October 21st, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government, Mining Nautilus Mining, Papua New Guinea Well shit… The green-lighting of the world’s first deep-sea mineral mine in Papua New Guinea waters has caused alarm among scientists and indigenous people who fear it will damage local marine life. Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, Michael Somare, today licensed the new mine for ore that contains copper, zinc and gold, to be run . . . → Read More: PNG Gives OK to Deep-Sea Mining
Of course we all know how forward thinking the UK government can be There is no case for declaring a moratorium on deepwater oil or gas drilling in British waters, the UK government said yesterday 11 October, as the EU is expected to call for a temporary ban until probe is completed into the causes . . . → Read More: UK sees no need for EU deepwater drilling ban
By Dr. M, on September 20th, 2010 One comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Fishing, Industry & Government, Mining bottom trawling, Dumping, fishing, GIS, human impact, mining I could write about a detailed account of a new study in PLoS One. I could discuss how the researchers imported information on the spatial extent of marine scientific research, submarine communication cables, radioactive waste disposal, munitions and chemical weapons waste disposal, military operations, oil and gas industry, and bottom trawling OSPAR maritime area . . . → Read More: Our Impacts on the Deep
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 11th, 2010 14 comments Adaptations, Deep Sea Music, Dumping poo, Trophic Ecology This is of course meant as an educational offering, you know… us being a top science blog and all… Everything Poops by Kevin Zelnio Lyrics under the fold This is of course meant as an educational offering, you know… us being a top science blog and all… Everything Poops by Kevin Zelnio Lyrics under the . . . → Read More: Everything Poops
By Dr. M, on July 19th, 2010 2 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Dumping, Life Science, New Research, Zooplankton Acanthocephala, Amphipoda, anxiety, Arthropoda, Crustacea, depression, Echinogammarus, geotaxis, Parasite, phototaxis, serotonin Figure 2 from paper: Mean average phototaxis and geotaxis score of E. marinus exposed to varied concentrations of serotonin (n = 20 per treatment) over a 3-week period. Error bars to one standard deviation. *Significance compared with control determined by Mann–Whitney and Bonferroni correction p < 0.0125. Nearly 30-90% of the pharmaceuticals we digest are . . . → Read More: Your Happiness Kills Crustaceans
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