Published on May 18, 2012 by Thankyouocean BLUEMiND is a look at the Ocean through neuroscience, linking studies of the mind and ocean. Summit founder Wallace J. Nichols talks about BLUEMiND questions: why the Ocean makes us happy, why we are drawn to the ocean, and what’s happening to our brain when we feel a […]
Written by Mat McDermott. TreeHugger. May 16, 2012 While there are plenty of bans on plastic bags at the city level in the US, with the approval of a ban of plastic bags at point of sale in Honolulu county, Hawaii becomes the first state in the nation to have outlawed plastic bags at every […]
by Underwatertimes.com News Service – April 4, 2012 18:57 EST SILVER SPRING, Maryland — Mariners along the U.S. east coast can now download a new iPad and iPhone application that warns them when they enter areas of high risk of collision with critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. The free Whale Alert app provides one […]
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun March 28, 2012 Environmentalists and the groundfish bottom trawl industry on Wednesday announced a landmark agreement on ways to limit the impact of trawl nets on sensitive corals, sponges, and deepsea habitats on the B.C. coast. The agreement sets out total annual bycatch objectives for the entire fleet at 562 […]
Written by Darci Palmquist. CoolGreenScience. The Nature Conservancy Published on March 27th, 2012 The world’s marine habitats are in trouble, and there are only so many dollars we can throw at the problem. But putting just a few toward community education and outreach pays huge dividends, according to a new study by Nature Conservancy scientists […]
By Associated Press, Published: March 21 WASHINGTON — It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by […]
AP. TREENA SHAPIRO 02/17/2012 9:17 am (AP) — A proposal to collect fees from customers who choose disposable paper and plastic shopping bags is gaining support as it works its way through Hawaii’s Legislature. If lawmakers pass the House Bill 2260 this session, Hawaii would become the first state to enact this kind of […]
Aboard Mission Blue, scientist Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of the Pacific — protecting fish, sealife and the island nation itself.