A blue whale from the eastern Pacific. According to the IUCN they are endangered. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. It amazes me that we can still in…
View More Unknown Chilean Population of Blue Whale DiscoveredCategory: Conservation & Environment
Ocean’s least productive waters are expanding
You read the title of this post, and the original paper, correctly. Brian H. sent this little gem of a paper to me today. Using…
View More Ocean’s least productive waters are expandingOcean's least productive waters are expanding
You read the title of this post, and the original paper, correctly. Brian H. sent this little gem of a paper to me today. Using…
View More Ocean's least productive waters are expandingAnd We Will Harness Our Power For Evil…Evil!!!
On how to use cool technology and a neat ROV to create a unbelievably large path of destruction…
View More And We Will Harness Our Power For Evil…Evil!!!Deep Oil Exploration Techniques Used to Test for Sports Doping
Research and exploration into our deep oceans has resulted in a magnitude of benefits to society from medicinal compounds to improved navigation and mapping equipment.…
View More Deep Oil Exploration Techniques Used to Test for Sports DopingWho Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?Guts full of rubbish
Plastic bags from the stomach of a dead minke whale are making the news in the UK. British newspaper Daily Mail has a story on…
View More Guts full of rubbishJapan to Court Whaling Commission Newbies
CNN reports that Japan will meet with several International Whaling Commission members on Monday, preempting the meeting of the Commission by 3 days: ” Japan’s…
View More Japan to Court Whaling Commission NewbiesShark Attacks Increase…
…maybe as retaliation for killing them off. The last estimate of 71 in 2007 compared to 63 in 2006, continues a four year increase. One…
View More Shark Attacks Increase…CORAL: Conservation Never Looked So Good!
Thanks to Rick MacPherson, Program Director for the Coral Reef Alliance (and fin-tastic blogger!), for this shirt. We met a few weeks ago at the…
View More CORAL: Conservation Never Looked So Good!