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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.

• Gulf of Mexico Possible “Largest Dead Zone Ever”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 19, 2011 • ( 1 )

  From PBS News Hour A dead zone — already the size of the state of New Jersey — is growing in the Gulf of Mexico, fueled by nutrient runoff from the swollen Mississippi River. This year, with floodwaters from the… Read More ›

• What Would You Say To A Northern Elephant Seal?

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  GOOGLE EARTH   By Bette Bardeen   According to Google Earth, an elephant seal lives down the street from me A photo link shows sand and waves and his enormous nose But the sand and waves are actually a few… Read More ›

• Global Warming? Ask Antarctic Penguins

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  What’s getting to be a familiar story, the warming ocean waters continue  “unraveling” sea life. In a recent “Science News” story, Adelie and chinstrap penguins are another species undergoing a forced weight-loss program—less available krill for meals in the West… Read More ›

• Our Trash Chokes A Northern Elephant Seal

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 9, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  It’s ironic that the northern elephant seal’s worst nightmare was the human mammal–not its natural predators the great white shark and orca. In the 1800s oil hunters slaughtered nearly the entire northern elephant seal population…

• Meat, Farms, The Sea and Me

  By Charmaine Coimbra on March 22, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  The treatment of factory farm animals is nightmarish enough, but their wastes grow into an environmental catastrophe that directly affects our seas

• “…Corals the Most Endangered Animal on the Planet”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Visit “Students Take a Vacation Saving Coral” on Neptune 911 for Kids From NPR February 23, 2011 A major new survey of the world’s coral reefs finds that they are in trouble. Big trouble. Overfishing and local pollution continue to… Read More ›

• Japan Suspends Whale Hunt

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

    From Planet Ark Februay 17, 2011 Photo: Reuters/Simon Ager/Sea Shepherd/Handout   Japanese whaling fleet vessel Yushin Maru No. 3 (C) sprays water cannons at Sea Shepherd vessel ”Gojira” during their clash in the Southern Ocean February 4, 2011.  … Read More ›

• Runaway Elephant Seal Pup Rescued

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Sure enough, before January 25, 2011, a young pup separated from its mother, managed to survive in the water, and washed up several miles south of the rookery–assuming this is where the pup was born.

• Warming Arctic Waters Endanger Pacific Walrus

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  From:  The New York Times February 8, 2011, 10:22 pm <!– — Updated: 12:07 am –>Walrus on Endangered Species Waiting List By ANDREW C. REVKIN Feb. 9, 12:10 a.m. | Updated The Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the… Read More ›

• Sea Otter Death Toll Rises in 2010

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 24, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  From The San Francisco Chronicle Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, January 23, 2011 A record number of sea otter bodies were found on California coastlines last year, a trend that leaves scientists and conservationists concerned for the future of… Read More ›