Bowie Seamount, Canada’s newest Marine Protected Area. OTTAWA (AFP) — An underwater volcanic mountain teaming with ocean life off Canada’s Pacific Coast has been added…
View More Meet Bowie, Canada’s Newest MPA!Category: Conservation & Environment
US Bans Shark-Finning
Did you know that the U.S. government has allowed the practice of shark-finning for several years? You might have thought this was a practice relegated…
View More US Bans Shark-FinningNorth Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 4 & 5
We previously brought you part 3, here is TOXIC-Garbage Island Part 4 and 5 from VBS.tv. Contains some vulgar language.
View More North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 4 & 5North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 4 & 5
We previously brought you part 3, here is TOXIC-Garbage Island Part 4 and 5 from VBS.tv. Contains some vulgar language.
View More North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 4 & 5Earthcast 2008 Reminder
Happy Earth Day DSN Readers! Just a reminder that I will be a guest along with Rick MacPherson of CORAL and the wonderful marine conservation…
View More Earthcast 2008 ReminderPoster child for Earth Day 2008: Gulper shark
Last year, DSN asked readers to remember the deep-sea on Earth Day by celebrating the goblin shark. This year’s poster child is the gulper shark,…
View More Poster child for Earth Day 2008: Gulper sharkROV plants Welsh flag deep in the Galapagos
Leighton Rolley, a systems technician on the “world’s most advanced research ship” the RRS James Cook, used a remotely operated vehicle capable to 5000 m…
View More ROV plants Welsh flag deep in the Galapagos1.5m Sea Level Rise by 2100
The good news is…more ocean! Svetlana Jevrejeva of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, UK, says a new, more accurate reconstruction of sea levels over the past…
View More 1.5m Sea Level Rise by 2100Evel Knievel rides again… for the Earth
Did you know that Evel Kneivel was an “Ecodaredevil” before he started jumping cars and canyons? He hitch hiked from Butte, Montana to Washington, D.C.…
View More Evel Knievel rides again… for the EarthJapan Whalers at 55% Capacity This Year
According to CNN.com, the Nisshin Maru, a japanese whaling ship, returned from the “field season” with only half its intended sample size for its scientific…
View More Japan Whalers at 55% Capacity This Year