Lifeguards in the Mediterranean have a new problem, and they have overfishing, pollution, and global warming to thank for it. Stinging jellyfish invaded beaches off…
View More Jellyfish patrol on Barcelona beachesCategory: Conservation & Environment
Jason-2 Maps Sea Level
BBC News reports: “Less than a month after it was put in orbit, the ocean-mapper Jason-2 has returned its first pictures to Earth. From an…
View More Jason-2 Maps Sea LevelUS Governors launch West Coast Ocean Action Plan
West Coast politics are hot. Senator Ted Stevens of the four seas of Alaska (Chukchi, Bering, Beaufort, and the Pacific) was indicted for false statements…
View More US Governors launch West Coast Ocean Action PlanA Response to Russ of Planktos
Russ comments in our previous post Au contrair. The record shows that Planktos was long advocating and involved in ecorestoration not merely recently. The Way…
View More A Response to Russ of PlanktosNew and Reinvented?
Rick points out that Planktos is back. Planktos is one of those groups who wanted to fertilize the oceans with iron to sequester C02 out…
View More New and Reinvented?"The Cave Where Turtles Die" Video
Earlier this year, I highlighted a post from the amazing dive blog The Right Blue. Their story about the “cave where turtles die” was one…
View More "The Cave Where Turtles Die" VideoFishing with dynamite in El Salvador
In an alarming trend, the practice of “dynamite” or “bomb” fishing has spread recently to Central America. Reports are coming in that hawksbill turtles are…
View More Fishing with dynamite in El SalvadorRising Fuel Costs Hurt Marine Research
Nature News reports: “Many of the research projects launched as part of the International Polar Year (IPY), which runs from March 2007 to March 2009,…
View More Rising Fuel Costs Hurt Marine ResearchNo-Take Reserves Work
Who would of thunk it? Like Mark Powell recently stated: “In the “duh” category, fish are thriving in a no-fishing zone in Australia. After looking…
View More No-Take Reserves WorkA Vast Repository for Greenhouse Gas?
Admittedly, before reading the actual paper I was a little uneasy about the latest paper in PNAS by Goldberg et al. The paper describes a…
View More A Vast Repository for Greenhouse Gas?