Overfishing and pollution putting fish, sharks and whales in extreme danger – with extinction ‘inevitable’, study finds Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent. guardian.co.uk,Monday 20 June 2011 19.21 BST Fish, sharks, whales and other marine species are in imminent danger of an “unprecedented” and catastrophic extinction event at the hands of humankind, and are disappearing at a […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 29, 2011 (ENS) – Polluted stormwater runoff and sewage overflows carrying oil, and human and animal waste fouled beaches around the country in 2010, causing the second-highest number of closing and advisory days in more than two decades, finds the Natural Resources Defense Council in its annual beachwater quality report issued today. […]
Photo: Reef Relief Urgent Action Needed! Our Nation’s first National Ocean Policy was established by President Obama last year. This momentous action will help the US to protect, maintain, and restore our ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes natural resources in to the future. Now, some members of Congress are attempting to stop implementation of the National […]
By Edward O. Wilson. National Geographic Photograph by David Liittschwager When you thrust a shovel into the soil or tear off a piece of coral, you are, godlike, cutting through an entire world. You have crossed a hidden frontier known to very few. Immediately close at hand, around and beneath our feet, lies the […]
Coral Reef Fact: The pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) has a mutualistic relationship with sharks, rays and sea turtles. These fish follow the larger creature feeding off of and removing their parasites and eating scrapes from their feeding. Fact source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_fish#cite_note-2 Join Reef Relief today and help protect our marine world. www.reefrelief.org/act/donate
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent. 6:45AM BST 26 Jun 2011 Warming ocean waters are causing the largest movement of marine species seen on Earth in more than two million years, according to scientists. In the Arctic, melting sea ice during recent summers has allowed a passage to open up from the Pacific ocean into the […]
by Blythe Copeland, Great Neck, New York Sometimes it takes the simple clarity of a child to change the world as we know it. Among all the social change, political maneuvering, and serious issues facing the environment today, there are plenty of savvy kids taking matters into their own hands: Coming up with plans to […]
by Underwatertimes.com News Service – June 28, 2011 21:59 EST GAINSVILLE, Florida — University of Florida researchers received a rare 25-foot-long, deep-water giant squid Monday, the only one of its kind in the collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Recovered by recreational fishermen who found the creature floating on the surface about 12 […]
Coral Reef Fact: Caribbean Reef Squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) are 1 of 6 species of “flying squid”. These squid “fly” by expanding their mantle which fills with water. They quickly contract their muscles to expel the water to propel themselves in any direction & sometimes times out of the water if they are startled or fleeing […]
Circle of Blue. The Federal Water Tap 6/27/11 Taking the EPA’s Authority Away A House committee approved a bill that would gut much of the EPA’s power to enforce clean water standards. The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act, approved by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, would transfer regulatory power over water, wetlands and mountaintop mining […]