This week in ocean news: Stories from Los Angeles Times, CBC News, Pew Environment Group, Bloomberg Businessweek, LiveScience, and Science Daily.
Coral Reefs
Great Barrier Reef Health “In Danger”
But if current trends continue, the unthinkable could happen: the Great Barrier Reef could die.
Hawaii’s Coral Reefs “In Crisis”
Editor’s note: The following is from a recent SLO Coast Journal Report for May 2013. Another article follows– “Endangered Coral Reefs.” Pollution-threatened Bays Need to be Marine Sanctuaries by Carol Georgi and Karl Kempton, Former Energy Planner for San Luis… Read More ›
Protecting the Coral Triangle
From The Nature Conservancy Between the southern tip of Asia and northern Australia, hundreds of miles of coral reef bind six island nations – Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. From sea turtles… Read More ›
Ocean Acidification Threatens Food Security
“Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Iran, and China are among the top 50 nations whose food security may be threatened by the effects that the rise of manmade carbon-dioxide (CO2) gas emissions are already starting to have on fish and shellfish,… Read More ›
Blame It On Laguna Beach
By Charmaine Coimbra Blame it on my summers in Laguna Beach. From here on out, that’s my answer to, “But there are so many other pressing challenges to tackle other than plastics in the ocean.” Those two weeks away from… Read More ›
World Oceans Day, June 8
A Message From World Oceans Day. org: June 8, 2012 is World Oceans Day, a day when people around the globe come together to celebrate our ocean and take action to protect it. And with good cause! The ocean not… Read More ›
A Cold Case–The Rising Seas
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 ›
Gulf Oil Spill is “A Tangled Web of Impact” 2-Years Later
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
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 ›
Neptune 911! 