By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 15, 2012 at 10:56 am by Daniel J. Weiss As part of the FY 2013 budget released on February 13, President Obama proposed to eliminate $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas producers over the next ten years. Yesterday, the Yale Project on Climate Change reiterated its […]
by, Ian Enting Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems at University of Melbourne 12 February 2012, 10.31pm AEST. http://theconversation.edu.au James Lovelock’s “Gaia hypothesis” has challenged conventional thinking about the nature of the earth as an integrated system. Gaia proposes that the earth acts like a living organism — that […]
ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2012) — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 will have a large economic impact on the U.S. Gulf fisheries. A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (CJFAS) says that over 7 years this oil spill could have a $US8.7 […]
By Stephen Lendman February 19, 2012. Fogcityjournal.com In November 2006, Washington Post writer Juliet Eilperin headlined, ” World’s Fish Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn,” saying International ecologists and economists believe “the world will run out of seafood by 2048″ if current fishing rates continue. A journal Science study “conclude(d) that overfishing, pollution and other environmental […]
Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, in Vancouver 12:01AM GMT 18 Feb 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Critically endangered sea creatures like Pacific turtles face extinction unless conservation zones are shifted to follow their migration paths, experts have warned. Current marine protection areas designed to preserve under-threat species generally cover fixed geographical spots where they feed, mate or rear their […]
NRDC Action Alert A new EPA proposal would consider acceptable beach water pollution that would let 1 in 28 beachgoers get sick. The Environmental Protection Agency had promised to update beach pollution regulations but these are virtually the same standards it issued in 1986. Before the February 21st comment deadline, urge the EPA to protect […]
Reef Relief and the City of Key West, having both adopted Resolution # 12-025, approved by the City Commission of Key West on January 4, 2012, turns over management and maintenance of Key West Marine Park (KWMP) for a period of three years. BACKGROUND Reef Relief founders DeeVon and Craig Quirolo first established the park […]
By Virginia Chamlee | 02.08.12 | 11:53 am A national environmental group has sent state Reps. Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, and Debbie Mayfield, R-Vero Beach, a letter urging them to put a stop to a controversial Florida fertilizer bill. Though the Senate version of the bill died in committee this week, the House version is still […]