What do you think of when you hear a report of the clearest water on earth? For most the idea that comes to mind is…
Will The Largest Mine Waste Disaster In History In Canada Destroy The Largest Salmon Run In History A study in Ecological Applications reveals incredibly small…
Crisis of high and rising mercury in the oceans is growing worse Amount of toxic mercury to double by 2050 Nature’s cure is at hand…
It’s Begun, Dueling Boffin Banjos. Global News in Canada has rounded up a university boffin to profess on whether the 19 million cubic meter, 5…
The Fraser River that pours into the sea near Vancouver is the most productive salmon river in the world. Just now as the salmon have…
Our ability to observe and measure dust around the world is best served by the satellite fleet. Those observations show a great decline in vital…
Winter storms a few months ago brought reports of thousands of sea birds dead on the beaches of Europe. We reported the dire state of…
We can spare blue whales from being run down by ships if we provide them with alternative restored ocean pastures. Even though commercial whaling was…
Catching Wild Seafoods Consumes A Lot Of Diesel Fuel Robert Parker, a young fisheries scientist at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, in Australia, and Peter…
But this year neither his beak nor belly hold anything. California brown pelicans’ breeding numbers are in drastic decline this year, according to an annual…
Ocean eddies are growing “The ocean temperatures east of Tasmania are some of the fastest rising in the world,” said Iain Suthers, a professor at…
Societies react to dangers and crisis’ in predictable ways that are frequently exploited by financial political monsters. In 1961, President and General Dwight D. (Ike)…
Subsidies paid to fishing fleets by their government often pays for 60% of the fuel cost. Without these privateers’ subsidies the world’s catch would be…
High CO2 results in declining dust in the wind, in ancient times less dust meant less iron reached oceans to sustain plant life. A new…
Report predicts that loss of ocean net primary productivity over the next 200 years will be at least 50%. The present value of the oceans…
About 56 million years ago, a pulse of carbon dioxide (source unknown) that surged into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, that…
This year’s 2014 wild Alaska salmon season will be stunningly smaller than last year if the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s predictions are correct. The…
For the past several years, the Pacific Northwest oyster industry has struggled with significant losses due to ocean acidification as oyster larvae encountered mortality rates…
A new paper reports on the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean pastures over the past 40 years. As the ocean fish pastures collapse mother fish…
Starving Ocean – with Debbie MacKenzie and Farley Mowat In 2004, 20 years after a “deathly silent” response to Farley Mowat’s “Sea of Slaughter” (http://www.youtube.com/watc… ),…