Coral Reef Fact: The Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) does not get it’s common name from it’s appearance. Its name comes from the greenish color of the turtle’s fat, which is only found in a layer between their inner organs and their shell.Learn more Please support Reef Relief’s work to protect our coral reefs.
Updated: Friday, January 07, 2011, 11:44 PM By Paul Rioux, The Times-Picayune Standing on a makeshift plywood boardwalk placed atop an oil-choked mat of dead marsh grass in Bay Jimmy, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser blasted the pace of cleanup efforts, saying the wetlands look worse than when BP’s gushing well was capped nearly six […]
By MIKE SORAGHAN of Greenwire Published: February 3, 2011 The future pace of drilling approvals in the Gulf of Mexico might be slowed less by new laws or regulations stemming from last year’s massive spill but by a decades-old law that opens the door to longer environmental reviews and litigation. Read the full article
Coral Reef Fact: The Atlantic Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) has three color phases. In its juvenile phase, it is bright yellow, changing to a mixture of yellow and blue during adolescence. Adult blue tangs are deep blue to purplish-blue with a yellow caudal spine. At night they will, also, display white vertical stripes. Learn more […]
Coral Reef Fact: The Shortnose Batfish (Ogcocephalus nasutus) uses a lure located right above its mouth to attract prey. Please support Reef Relief’s work to protect our marine environment.
Coral Reef Fact: Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) can tolerate oxygen-poor environments due to a modified air bladder that allows them to inhale atmospheric oxygen. Learn more Please support Reef Relief’s work to protect our marine environment.
WASHINGTON (February 1, 2011) – With BP’s announcement today that they intend to restart dividend payments to shareholders, despite losing money in 2010 and tens of billions still outstanding from their company’s spill, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called on the company to cease their challenge of the size of the spill or cease handing […]
Check out The Ocean Doctor’s special guest this wee, Jean-Michel Cousteau, who leads Ocean Futures Society, a nonprofit marine conservation organization.With his team, Jean-Michel has been working for months to document the impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Listen here
The Shark Conservation Act has finally become law, giving much-needed protection to some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures. Signed by President Obama on January 4, the law closes a major loophole in an existing U.S. ban on shark finning. That gruesome practice involves fishermen cutting off sharks’ fins, which are used in soup, then […]
LAWMAKERS, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS CALL FOR NEAR- SHORE OIL BAN Tallahassee, February 9, 2011 TALLAHASSEE– On Wednesday, February 9, 2011 a bipartisan group of state legislators and environmental groups called for amending of the Florida Constitution to ban oil drilling in our state’s near shore waters. Reef Relief’s State Policy and Programs Director, Paul […]