Neptune 911 will be on holiday through early 2016. We would like to leave this year with the good news and the news that asks us to work harder for our seas, put together by David Helvarg who heads the… Read More ›
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Another “Unusual Mortality Event” of Marine Mammals
NOAA is declaring the recent deaths of 30 large whales in the western Gulf of Alaska an “unusual mortality event,” triggering a focused, expert investigation into the cause. An unusual mortality event is a stranding event that is unexpected, involves… Read More ›
Drones Enable Whale Research
A crowdfunding project called Snotbot, which aims to fund quadcopter-enabled research of whales by collecting their projectile exhalations, has been getting a lot of attention. … Since 2013, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the National… Read More ›
Video Shows Plankton Consuming Plastic Beads
Neptune 911 has reported on scientific concerns about plastics in the seafood that we consume. This video shows how plankton easily consume plastic beads. Yes, the following is editorializing, something Neptune 911 uses only when facts out-weigh the hyperbole. There… Read More ›
The Bristlemouth and Climate Change Research
The tiny fish known as the bristlemouth is part of a detective story that bears on everything from feeding the planet and monitoring ocean health to learning how to better predict climate change. The case centers on the ocean’s twilight… Read More ›
Marine Sanctuary Expanded: Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
June 9, 2015 The expansion of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries off northern California takes effect today, following a 45-day period of Congressional review. The expansion will help protect the region’s marine and coastal… Read More ›
Two Tales of Acidification–The Old and the New
If you thought the worst extinction event on Earth was the one that killed the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, think again. A far worse event, the Permo-Triassic Boundary mass extinction event, happened some 252 million years ago, which over the course of about 60,000 years is thought to have wiped out more than two-thirds of land species and more than 90% of marine species on the planet.
A Short Winter for the Arctic
(Reuters) – Arctic sea ice this year is the smallest in winter since satellite records began in 1979, in a new sign of long-term climate change, U.S. data showed on Thursday. The ice floating on the Arctic Ocean around the… Read More ›
Virginia Considers Banning Balloon Releases
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Balloons are killing animals on land and in water, according to researchers at the Virginia Aquarium. And now a lawmaker from Virginia Beach is hoping to ban the release of helium balloons into the air…. Read More ›
Marine Experts “Baffled” By Cuvier’s Beaked Whale Deaths
A SPATE of deaths of the world’s deepest-diving mammal around the west coast of Scotland has left marine experts baffled. Scientists at the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) and Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) say an unusually large… Read More ›
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