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 July 10th, 2011 Leave a comment Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills conservation, Dumping, fishing, geosequestration, iron fertilization, IUCN, mining, Oil Spill, pollution, tuna Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my fish in oil please. PLoS One published an article by Fodrie and Heck concluding that immediate catastrophic loss of fish was avoided in the Gulf oil spill. They also found . . . → Read More: Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation News
By para_sight, on June 10th, 2011 One comment Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, Life At Sea, Natural Disaster, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Fukushima, Japan, pollution, Radiation, Research There’s a research cruise underway right now to study the impacts of radiation release from the Fukushima disaster in Japan, using the UNOLS/U. Hawaii ship R/V Kaimikai-O-Kanaloa. You can read the overview here and follow the at sea blog of the 17 researchers here. The cruise features scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic, U. Tokyo, U. . . . → Read More: Follow along with Fukushima researchers
By Dr. M, on April 6th, 2011 One 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 June 30th, 2010 3 comments Environmental Sciences, Gadgets & Gear, Geology, Oil Spills blowout, BP, modeling, Oil Spill, plume, pollution Blowouts and the subsequent dispersion of oil and gas in deep and shallow water differ immensely. In shallower waters, expelled gas will contribute to the buoyancy of the plume, which quickly rises to the surface. The rising gas bubble plume and the water it traps govern the size and shape of the resultant slick. When . . . → Read More: The Complex Science of Predicting Oil Plumes
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 15th, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Oil Spills Antioxidant, Best of Zelnio, Carotenoid, Gull, Hydrocarbons, Larus michahellis, Oil Spill, Oxidative Stress, Pollutant, pollution, Prestige, Seagull Oil is bad for wildlife. Period. But we really do not understand how it is bad. What does it do? Can marine organisms respond physiologically to oil in diets? For instance, translocate the toxic components to feathers and molt it off, much like some crabs, or have other physiologically mechanisms to eject the toxin . . . → Read More: Why Oil-Laden Prey is Bad for Sea Birds
By Dr. M, on May 22nd, 2010 12 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills Biodiversity, deep sea, Drilling, Oil Spill, pollution, seafloor, Toxicity The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now over a month in duration and continues to worsen. Estimates of the total oil flowing from the damage were estimated initially at 5,000 barrels per day. Now the 26,000 estimate by FSU professor Ian MacDonald looks more plausible. Moreover, the greatest impact of the current . . . → Read More: Anatomy of an ecological catastrophe: what to expect in the deep Gulf of Mexico
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 18th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping California, pollution, trash Of course, the sad thing is that this scenario is likely to occur in deep water along the majority of coastlines. Hat tip to @scubadivergirls. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Of course, the sad thing is that this scenario is likely to occur in deep water along the majority of coastlines. Hat tip to @scubadivergirls. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Kevin Zelnio, on September 14th, 2009 One comment Conservation & Environment, Megavertebrate Blue Whale, Debris, New Zealand, pollution, ropes I recently came across an article by Andrew Baxter of the Nelson/Marlborough Conservancy of New Zealand’s Department of Conservation published in the Bycatch Communication Network Newsletter. He kindly allowed me to reprint the article here for our readers with permission from BCNN’s publisher. —————————————————————————————————- Blue whale reveals a sobering reminder about the threats of marine . . . → Read More: Rope found in Blue Whale’s Stomach
By Peter Etnoyer, on August 4th, 2008 4 comments Conservation & Environment global warming, jellyfish, ocean, pollution . . . → Read More: Jellyfish patrol on Barcelona beaches
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