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• $1Million Prize For Best Plan to Combat Dead Zones

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  edOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online In response to President Obama’s call for institutions and philanthropists to help find solutions to the world’s most pressing issues, Tulane University announced Monday that it would offer a $1 million… Read More ›

• Penobscot River Mercury Pollution Closes Lobster & Crab Harvest

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Mercury contamination in Penobscot River lobsters was known for 8 years   But consumers didn’t learn about the ‘hazardous’ levels until a state agency closed the fishing area.   By Scott Dolan and Tom Bell , Portland Press Herald, Feb…. Read More ›

• New Zealanders Point to Seismic Oil Exploration For Stranded Orcas

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  From Seattle PI.com New Zealanders are reacting with concern and outrage to  the recent tragic death of nine orcas who stranded on their shoreline this week (International Dolphin and Whale Stranding Network), but also with touching compassion. A Southland woman… Read More ›

• Seastar Wasting Disease Now in San Luis Obispo County

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    Editor’s note:  Visit http://www.seastarwasting.org for more information Starfish dying from disease in SLO County tide pools By David Sneed dsneed@thetribunenews.comFebruary 18, 2014 Updated 9 hours ago Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/02/18/2932233/starfish-disease-tide-pools-death.html#storylink=cpy Starfish in San Luis Obispo County are suffering from a… Read More ›

• Fishing Gear–Deadly For 8 Large Atlantic Whale Species

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Death by fishing gear entanglement is the most commonly diagnosed cause of death among eight large whale species on the eastern North American Continental shelf.

• Research Links Trace Metals in Seabirds to Plastic Ingestion

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 6, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Plastic linked to metals in seabirds The University of Tasmania Monday, 03 February 2014 New research by the University of Tasmania has examined the toxic effects of seabirds ingesting marine plastic pollution and population decline. UTAS’ Institute for Marine and… Read More ›

• $53-Million Earmarked to Combat Overfishing

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  By Charmaine Coimbra Financial Times reports that “The former New York City mayor is about to go a step further, however, with a $53m grant from his Bloomberg Philanthropies foundation to combat the chronic overfishing some experts say is threatening… Read More ›

• “No Fukushima radionuclides detected yet”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  From Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution media@whoi.edu January 28, 2014 With concern among the public over the plume of radioactive ocean water from Fukushima arriving on the West Coast of North America and no U.S. government or international plan to monitor… Read More ›

• Chinese Factory Processes About 600 Whale Sharks

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  From:  https://www.thedodo.com/endangered-whale-shark-slaught-405327773.html WildLifeRisk, a Hong Kong-based conservation group, has discovered a factory that processes approximately 600 endangered whale sharks each year, following a four-year-long undercover investigation of the plant. According to the group, the south China factory is the world’s… Read More ›

• Shark Culling Begins in Western Australia

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  updated 10:38 AM EST, Mon January 27, 2014   Shark cull aims to end attacks STORY HIGHLIGHTS Western Australian government kills first shark as part of a controversial culling program Shooting of a three-meter tiger shark draws an angry response… Read More ›

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