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Reporter, journalist and author who has owned and operated a bookstore, a pool and spa full service business, an apple farm, and is now committed to environmental issues. She has written four books: The Gathering Basket, Connection with 48 Natural Contemplations, Seek Beauty, Find Joy: a Companion Journal to Natural Contemplations; and children's book, Isu Learns to Swim.

• A Cold Case–The Rising Seas

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  From Climate Central By Michael D. Lemonick The crime under investigation happened more than 14,000 years ago — a cold case in more ways than one. It was a time when the great Laurentide ice sheets that covered vast stretches of… Read More ›

• 615 Dead Dolphins Reported on Peru Beach

  By Charmaine Coimbra on March 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Editor’s note…this post was updated 4/6/12.  Scroll down for update UPDATED:  4/19/12:  From BlueVoice.org:   One of, perhaps the worst, die-offs of dolphins ever is occurring in Peru right now. BlueVoice Executive Director Hardy Jones joined Peruvian marine mammal specialist… Read More ›

• Stockholm Science Study Puts A Value On Oceans

  By Charmaine Coimbra on March 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From Planet Ark 3/23/12 The cost of damage to the world’s oceans from climate change could reach $2 trillion a year by 2100 if measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions are not stepped up, a study by marine experts said… Read More ›

• Gulf Oil Spill is “A Tangled Web of Impact” 2-Years Later

  By Charmaine Coimbra on March 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Editor’s Note:  Recent Updates on After Effects of BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  Five articles follow. From Huffington Post: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After months of laboratory work, scientists say they can definitively finger oil from BP’s… Read More ›

• A New Analysis of Ocean Acidification

  By Charmaine Coimbra on March 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  From New York Times, by Justin Gillis   A new scientific paper suggests that the ocean is acidifying at a rate that is many times faster than at any time in the last 300 million years. The change is occurring… Read More ›

• The Diary of Whale Entanglement

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From Whales Bermuda “On the afternoon of February 12, 2012 operators on the Silver Bank worked together in an attempt to help a badly entangled humpback whale that was discovered during the first afternoon of their scheduled tours. Jeff Pantukhoff… Read More ›

• Sea Otters Under Attack

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Editor’s Note:  Two stories featured the endangered California Sea Otter in today’s news: Unexplained great white shark attacks on sea otters, and a bill, HR4043, ending protection of otters on a military weapons test site.  Both are posted here.  … Read More ›

• New Weapons of Sperm Whale Slaughter: Plastics, Plastic Bags, Carcinogens

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 10, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  We have a new blog for the young children in your life:  Neptune 911 For Kids. This fun blog features stories about ocean-hero kids, marine mammals, ways to save the ocean, and pages about the unique and weird creatures one… Read More ›

• Sea Cucumber Poo as Coral Reef Savior?

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Sea cucumbers could hold the key to saving the Great Barrier Reef, University of Sydney scientists say. Scientists at One Tree Island, the University of Sydney’s research station on the Great Barrier Reef, say sea cucumbers reduce the impact of… Read More ›

• Seaborn Rubbish Trashes Once Pristine Beaches and Sea

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From the Los Angeles Times   By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 27, 2012, 4:45 p.m.   Reporting from Mahahual, Mexico— Just off a rutted dirt road, a beach as white as flour pops into view from behind a wall… Read More ›