We have been following Nautilus Mineral for some time. As a quick recap, they are the company that is actively pursuing the mining of massive…
View More Hostile Takeover For Nautilus MineralCategory: Conservation & Environment
Mystery Sheen Near Deep Water Horizon Site
In September an oil sheen about four miles long had appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near the Deep Water Horizon well site. The sheen was…
View More Mystery Sheen Near Deep Water Horizon SiteBy trying to look sexier you may be ruining sex for corals.
You might be surprised to learn that an ingredient in some skin crèmes is coral, or more accurately coral extract. More specifically, Pseudopterosin A is…
View More By trying to look sexier you may be ruining sex for corals.Execute order 66
In the third or, um, sixth Star Wars movie, Emperor Palpatine finally reveals himself as the evil Sith lord Darth Sidious when he orders the…
View More Execute order 66Can Beasts of the Deep Survive the Impact of Drilling for Oil?
This is Guest Post from Dr. Daniel Jones a deep-sea biologist with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom and Project Coordinator for SERPENT…
View More Can Beasts of the Deep Survive the Impact of Drilling for Oil?California Coastal Climate Change Research
Was just sent these great informative short videos about research being done to understand how climate change affects coastal communities. Coastal organisms live in areas…
View More California Coastal Climate Change ResearchGuest post: The March…OF SCIENCE
This is a guest post from Sam Musher. Sam is a middle school librarian and children’s lit blogger. A steady diet of post-apocalyptic fiction made…
View More Guest post: The March…OF SCIENCEShark finning: a response to Kim Bosco Mo
Kim Bosco Mo has a piece in Huff Po Canada today on whether banning shark fin soup is an equitable way to protect sharks. I…
View More Shark finning: a response to Kim Bosco MoThe mystery of lobster shell disease
Most folks I know aren’t shy about crunching into a nice red American lobster and dipping that white flaky meat in some molten butter, and…
View More The mystery of lobster shell diseaseSatellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experiment
News of an rogue iron-dumping experiment off British Columbia, Canada, broke in the Guardian on Monday, and was followed up by the New York Times, the…
View More Satellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experiment