Small step toward shark conservation
World's First International Catch Limit for Sharks Adopted The Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) decided recently to [...]
A Greener Government
Or, if I had my way, bluer. Because we need to keep the ocean blue in a "green" way as much as we need to [...]
Just one reason why you should vote tomorrow
This is from the Center for Biological Diversity's newsletter: Endangered Earth On October 30, 2006, the Washington Post ran a major expose on Julie MacDonald, [...]
Numbers
This is a great numeric illustration of the 2048 article from yesterday's post about the impact of marine species loss: 2048: The estimated date at [...]
Seafood could collapse by 2050
Though I don't read MSN's news page very often, a co-worker brought this article to my attention this morning. Though nothing in the article surprises [...]
Groundbreaking climate report
Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses World reaction to yesterday's U.K. report linking climate change with possible economic ruin has been swift — and [...]
The Future of Marine Animal Populations
While browsing through some of the fascinating work of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), I came across [...]
Talk is cheap
As usual, the US sidesteps its responsibility to the planet: From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News, Monterrey Climate talks between the world's [...]
Sustainable seafood solutions in Europe?
Despite WWF's claim that in 2002 its Stop Overfishing Campaign was successful in "helping to put environmental concerns and long-term resource sustainability at the heart [...]
Impact of a worldwide coastal cleanup ~
Each year in September, hundreds of thousands of volunteers of all ages from every continent band together to form an enormous army of volunteers to clean up [...]
Dear Branson, Gates, Buffet, Turner…
What a wonderful thing Sir Richard Branson has done and how eloquently he's gone about it. Not only is he financing the search for solutions [...]
Go fishing online for eco-friendly seafood
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is a British nonprofit that is helping consumers select ocean-friendly seafood on its website https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/search. Visitors can search fish species [...]
Is the U.S. doing its part?
OK, clearly the Bush administration is not making global warming a priority. But, in terms of protecting the ocean and its resources — there seems [...]
The Evidence is Melting
Well if you still don't believe global warming is real, read this article published today in the San Francisco Chronicle titled "Greenland's ice cap is [...]
Good news for a change!(?)
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has established a large marine protected area (MPA) in Alaska called the Aleutian Islands Habitat Conservation Area covering 279,114 [...]
Thinking outside the net
The Nature Conservancy in partnership with Environmental Defense has developed an innovative way to make sustainable fishing a win-win situation for both conservationists and fishermen. By [...]