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• Is Leaking Methane From Arctic Sea More Than A Warning?

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  We have a new blog for the young children in your life:  Neptune 911 For Kids. This fun blog features stories about ocean-hero kids, marine mammals, ways to save the ocean, and pages about the unique and weird creatures one… Read More ›

• “Acoustic Impact” Indicated in Peru Dolphin Die-Off

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  From Mother Jones By JuliaWhitty Environmental CorrespondentJulia Whitty is the environmental correspondent for Mother Jones. Her latest book is Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. For more of her stories, click here. RSS | Twitter  … Read More ›

• Entangled Gray Whale Rescued by Fishermen

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Neptune 911 LOVES GOOD NEWS.  From Associated Press     By JASON DEAREN and MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO May 5, 2012 (AP)   Crab fisherman Mark Anello noticed something odd near his boat off the Northern California coast:… Read More ›

• Yangstze Porpoises “face enormous challenges”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Six years after the Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), or baiji, was declared “functionally extinct” by scientists, another marine mammal appears on the edge of extinction in China’s hugely degraded Yangtze River. In less than two months, 32 Yangtze finless… Read More ›

• Dead & Entangled Gray Whale Stories: 2012

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Whale found dead in Wash. had swallowed golf ball Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/25/2042347/whale-found-dead-in-wash-had-swallowed.html#storylink=cpy Dead gray whale washes ashore near San Simeon Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/23/2040436/dead-gray-whale-washes-ashore.html#storylink=cpy Lost whale spotted, rescuers wait for opportunity Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/24/2041883/lost-whale-spotted-rescuers-wait.html#storylink=cpy California Gray Whale Entangled:… Read More ›

• New Research: Plastics in Ocean “Scarier” Than Expected

  By Charmaine Coimbra on May 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From California Watch The cause célèbre of plastic litter in the ocean is the Texas-sized, swirling island of plastic debris thousands of miles off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean. But researchers from the Universities of Washington and… Read More ›

• Hardy Jones Reports On Peru Dolphin Die-Off

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

   From BlueVoice.org   Hardy Jones, April 26, 2012 An apocalyptic die-off of dolphins is occurring along the coastline of northern Peru. The reasons for the die-off are as yet unknown, though several culprits have emerged. During February of this year… Read More ›

• Seismic Testing Proposed for California’s Central Coast

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Editor’s Note:  Seismic Testing is known to harm marine mammals.  Is it another trashing of the ocean’s or an essential tool to learn more about earthquake faulting and oil exploration?  What is Seismic Testing? Following the news story by David… Read More ›

• Artic Marine Mammals Suffer “Mystery Disease”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From Planet Ark Symptoms of a mysterious disease that has killed scores of seals off Alaska and infected walruses are now showing up in polar bears, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Friday. Nine polar bears from the Beaufort… Read More ›

• Ohio River Most Polluted Waterway in U.S.

  By Charmaine Coimbra on April 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  From Mother Jones If you are a fly-fisher, a rafter, or heck, just a person who drinks water, here is some troubling news: Our waterways are in rough shape. An eye-opening new report (PDF) from Environment America Research and Policy… Read More ›

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