From Great Lake Echo Toxic chemicals clinging to plastics could cause health problems for fish and other organisms in the Great Lakes. They were discovered in samples from the first-ever Great Lakes plastic survey in Lake Erie, Lake Huron and… Read More ›
Environmental Water Woes
Unilever to End Use of “Plastic Micro Beads”
Editor’s Note: Recently I purchased an aroma therapy product “Sinus Help (TM),” which are inhalation beads that looked like wax. I discovered the wax to be plastic beads that will likely find their way into our waterways. Scrub products, as noted… Read More ›
Impacts of Seismic Survey Blasting on Marine Environment
By Sue Arnold CEO, California Gray Whale Coalition Photos by Charmaine Coimbra One of the most important outcomes of the PG&E HESS – whichever way it goes – is the raising of awareness on the issue of underwater noise… 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 ›
Yangstze Porpoises “face enormous challenges”
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 ›
New Research: Plastics in Ocean “Scarier” Than Expected
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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
A Flick of a Filter Feeds A Fish–Then Poisons It
There’s a myth that cigarette filters biodegrade. Not so much. The plastic (acetate) filter can take years to decompose. They also resemble tasty morsels of food to passing by fish and other marine life.
Neptune 911! 