A commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico last month ensnared a 8ft long missile in his longline. The missile contained a hole leading the fishermen to assume it was previously detonated. Wanting to keep the missile as a souvenir, he tied it to the top of his boat where it rested for the remainder . . . → Read More: Fish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles Do
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By Dr. M, on  June 10th, 2009  Leave a comment  Dumping, Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment  air-to-air, fishermen, Gulf of Mexico, longline, MacDill Air Force Base, missile, weapon By Dr. M, on March 24th, 2009 9 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather Alfred Wegener Institute, algae, copepod, Environmental Issues, global warming, greenhouse gas, iron, iron fertilization, phytoplankton, plankton, Southern Ocean, zooplankton BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved “fertilising” a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water . . . → Read More: Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
By Dr. M, on March 12th, 2009 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms anthropogenic, biological and chemical weapons, conservation, deep sea, ecologist, economics, energy, energy flows, Environmental Issues, Eugene Odum, famous ecologist, marine conservation, Organisms, policy, Savannah River Plant, tactical oil spills, war, warfare Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors state “among human activities causing ecological change, ware is both intensive and far-reaching. Yet environmental research related to warfare is limited in depth and fragmented by discipline.” The paper is . . . → Read More: Warfare Ecology
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government carbon credits, carbon sequestration, circulation, climate change, deep sea, sediments Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind attitude and 2) ignorance about processes in the deep. So pardon me if I don’t get too excited about the new scheme to save us all. Rick and Miriam have . . . → Read More: Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
. . . → Read More: No Carbon Credits for Iron Fertilization
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By Dr. M, on July 28th, 2008 2 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government, Opinion & Editorial . . . → Read More: A Response to Russ of Planktos
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 13th, 2008 One comment Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Opinion & Editorial . . . → Read More: 6:1 or None?
By Dr. M, on April 7th, 2008 10 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government, Microbes During 1973-78 alone over 400 metric tones of pharmaceutical wastes were dumped into the ocean off Puerto Rico. . . . → Read More: Dumping Pharmaceutical Waste In The Deep Sea
By Dr. M, on April 1st, 2008 12 comments Adaptations, Dumping, New Research, New Species, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls April 1st . . . → Read More: New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale Poo
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