Editor’s Note: The debate about the safety of seismic airgun blasts for research purposes along America’s coastlines, has moved from Central California to the Atlantic coast, ranging from Delaware to Florida. The following assesment is from Oceana: Overview The U.S…. Read More ›
From the New York Times By WILLIAM J. BROAD When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms, or 150… Read More ›
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 ›
Editor’s Note: Carol Georgi is the California Central Coast marine Sanctuary Alliance Coordinator. She is active in halting the proposed PG&E Seismic Testing proposal along the Central Coast. Her concern, as shown in this letter to the US Fish and… Read More ›
By Charmaine Coimbra Citizens along the Central Coast of California have joined forces to halt the proposed seismic testing in the ocean waters that lap up against the Diablo Nuclear Plant, as reported in a recent Neptune 911 post. The… Read More ›
For more news about the Great Barrier Reef, read today’s report: Half of Great Barrier Reef Lost In Past 3 Decades by: GRAHAM LLOYD, ENVIRONMENT EDITOR From: The Australian October 01, 2012 12:00AM WHEN shipping was stopped in Canada’s Bay… Read More ›
September 20 2012 Planned Testing Will Be Catastrophic To Marine Life and Poses Risk to Divers, Swimmers and Surfers The Surfrider Foundation vowed today to stop seismic testing slated to begin off the coast of Central California this November. Pacific… Read More ›
Opinion by Charmaine Coimbra Neptune 911’s mission is to bring information about the oceans to the everyday-person—persons like me. It’s goal is to help us understand how what we do affect the ocean’s well being and that an unhealthy ocean… Read More ›
From BlueVoice.org by Hardy Jones Friday, June 1, 2012 BlueVoice has learned from a highly reliable source that in 2008 there was a mass mortality event (MME) of melon-headed whales (a species of dolphin) on the coast of Madagascar. This… Read More ›
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 ›
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