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…
View More Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation NewsCategory: Industry & Government
From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The Ocean
How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The OceanBlue Urbanism
At Design Observer there is nice essay urging us to reconsider how we approach urban planning. As planners and designers, we need to take up…
View More Blue UrbanismThe end of whaling in Japan?
UPDATE: No sooner did I post this did I find out it’s a hoax. Of course, this reaffirms a long held tenet of mine: when…
View More The end of whaling in Japan?DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality Event
Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used…
View More DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality EventCold hard data vs warm baby dolphins
There’s a lot of press happening right now about an “unusual mortality event” underway in the northern Gulf of Mexico involving dead dolphins, particularly young…
View More Cold hard data vs warm baby dolphinsFossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power
Although counterintuitive to some fossil fuels are a killer. “There is no question,” says Joseph Romm, an energy expert at the Center for American…
View More Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear powerJapan Finds Radiation in Fish
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…
View More Japan Finds Radiation in FishJapan Releases Radioactive Water Into Sea
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…
View More Japan Releases Radioactive Water Into SeaCongresswoman Edwards Speaks on Importance of NOAA
This is a Congresswoman that gets it. Make sure you check out further analysis of a NOAA budget cut at Casandra’s Tears.
View More Congresswoman Edwards Speaks on Importance of NOAA