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Feb. 6, 2008 - Global warming is "unequivocal," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in November 2007. Human actions - particularly the burning of fossil fuels - have dramatically raised carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading our planet toward "abrupt or irreversible climate changes and impacts,"’ the IPCC said. New, stronger scientific evidence indicates that these impacts may be larger than projected and come soon... [More]

Too Few Fish: A Regional Assessment of the World's Fisheries

A new report concludes that more than 80 percent of the world's fisheries cannot withstand increased fishing activity and only 17 percent of the world's fisheries should be considered capable of any growth in catch at all.

Toward A Sea Ethic

by Dr. Carl Safina, The American Prospect Oceans and Coasts special report, November 2008

Toxic Burden: PCBs in Marine Life

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), including PCBs, are highly toxic, persist in the environment, and accumulate at rising concentrations up the links of the marine food chain.

Toxic Legacy: Long-term Effects of Offshore Oil on Wildlife and Public Health

Nearly twenty years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, President George W. Bush and Congress reversed the moratoria on offshore drilling in the outercontinental shelf, raising the risk of another oil spill catastrophe. Toxic Legacy thoroughly documents the consequences of our addiction to oil, from drilling to transportation and final use. The report calls for a reinstatement of the moratoria in order to better protect our oceans.

Transparent Animal May Play Overlooked Role in the Ocean

Jun. 30, 2006 - Swarming by the billions, gelatinous salps transport tons of carbon to the depths

Treated as trash

Sharks are accidentally caught in many and very different gillnet, purse seine, longline and trawl fisheries, and from small artisanal boats to giant industrial vessels. This report focuses on a few examples to show the dimension of the problem.

Trouble for Turtles: Trawl Fishing in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

Trouble for Turtles shows that an estimated 770 sea turtles are caught annually in Mid-Atlantic trawl fisheries alone.

Troubled Waters: A Call for Action

Norse, Elliott A. (chief author) and 1,604 other scientists (1998), Released at the US Capitol, January 6, 1998

Tuna Wishing

by Dr. Carl Safina, Edible East End, High Summer 2008

"The next time you eat sushi, consider this."

Turtles and Whales (WWF)

The project will build on earlier conservation work to protect marine turtles and humpback whales in Colombia.

It will continue to create new protected areas and reduce key threats, but will also address new and additional pressures such as infrastructure proposals and problems associated with bycatch.

UNEP's Global Marine Litter Information Gateway

A co-operative effort of the UNEP GPA Coordination Office, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and the UN International Maritime Organization. The objective is to provide a clearing-house, a gateway, for supply and exchange of information on the global, regional and local problem of marine litter.

UNESCO’s Ecosystem-based Marine Spatial Management Initiative

Throughout the world, marine spatial management is gaining considerable importance as a constructive first step to make an ecosystem approach to ocean management a reality. Ongoing economic development such as aquaculture, fisheries, maritime transport, oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, has increased the pressures on the marine environment. This wide range of human activities, mostly uncoordinated among economic sectors, has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss of the di... [More]

Unique Opportunity to Restore Oceans

Prominent leaders and experts lay out clear path to fix bad regulations and revitalize America's fisheries
Posted: 12-Nov-2008; Updated: 13-Jan-2009

Will jellyfish replace our favorite kinds of seafood? That appears to be the way we're headed — but a new report Oceans of Abundance [PDF], from leading U.S. policy makers and fisheries experts, says this does not have to be.

President-elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have a unique opportunity to restore Amer... [More]

West African Marine Ecoregion protected areas (WWF)

Supporting and creating marine protected areas

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are powerful biodiversity management tools. They provide essential safe havens for marine species and their habitats, and function as insurance against the unexpected. From an economic perspective, MPAs have been shown to maintain vital fisheries resources and to attract valuable tourism.

Whales Before Whaling in the North Atlantic

Roman, J., and S.R. Palumbi (2003), Science 301: 508-510

Whaling

Valued for their oil, blubber, meat and baleen, many species of whales were hunted nearly to extinction by the 20th century. Even with laws enacted by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), most species haven't recovered. Some countries, like Japan and Norway, still ignore conservation plans, threatening the survival of these awesome animals.

What Are the Possible Side Effects?

Jan. 8, 2008 - The uncertainties and unintended consequences of manipulating ecosystems

What Brings the Food that Brings the Whales?

Mar. 22, 2006 - Scientists investigate delicately balanced ecosystem off Alaska (bowhead whales)

What Does It Take To Break a Whale?

Jun. 20, 2007 - Stress tests on whale bones aim to help endangered species

What's on the Hook?

Because recreational anglers are concerned about mercury, Oceana analyzed fish caught at a fishing rodeo for mercury and looked at what anglers are actually eating.

While Oil Gently Seeps from the Seafloor

May. 14, 2009 - Oil naturally leaking into the ocean offers a 'laboratory' to study accidential spills

Whither the North Atlantic Right Whale?

Nov. 3, 2004 - Scientists explore many facets of whales' lives to help species on the edge of extinction

Why the world needs a time-out on high seas bottom trawling

Morgan, L.E., E.A. Norse, A.D. Rogers, R.L. Haedrich, S.M. Maxwell (2005), Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

WIDECAST - Sea Turtle Care and Medicine

WIDECAST has published this "first response" manual which addresses the issue of euthanasia and also provides a list of sea turtle vets in the Caribbean.

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