From Science News In June, scientists predicted that the Gulf of Mexico’s annual dead zone — a subsea region where the water contains too little oxygen to support life — might develop into the biggest ever. In fact, that… Read More ›
Condition of Oceans
Journalists Investigage Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunmai Contamination
Two journalists recently uncovered and discussed the short and long term environmental damage from the March tsunami in Japan. Beside the fact that much of the toxic wastes will/has flowed into the ocean, they discovered that the existing toxic sludge… Read More ›
Will Oceans Succumb To Manmade Stress? Experts Worry.
Editor’s Note: The oceans seem so big that they appear immune to change. But the fact that the oceans comprise 71% of Planet Earth, perhaps it is time for educating ourselves about the oceans and how they regulate our weather,… Read More ›
Marine Mammal Entanglement Up Close & Personal
By Charmaine Coimbra This year I’ve been up close and personal with marine entanglement. A near-handful of northern elephant seals that hauled out to molt at Piedras Blancas, where I volunteer as a docent, arrived with strapping bands around their necks. If the straps… Read More ›
Plastics: “Most pervasive pollution problems facing the world’s oceans…”
Editor’s Note: Before reading another dismal report on the conditions our ocean’s face, some communities are trying to stop one use plastics within their communites, such as this report from Surfrider Foundation: Supermarkets, pharmacies and certain retail stores in Long… Read More ›
Gulf of Mexico Possible “Largest Dead Zone Ever”
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 ›
Our Trash Chokes A Northern Elephant Seal
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
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”
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 ›
Medical Waste Foul Beaches, Cruise Ships Foul Waters
When a friend returned from her Hawaiian holiday she called me in near tears. “We didn’t stay in a resort this time, where the beaches are always clean, so when I took a beachside walk and found mounds of… Read More ›
Neptune 911! 