By Sandy Bauers, Inquirer Staff Writer20 April 2012 The scientists were a little tired and burned out. For two weeks, they had been aboard a research ship in the Gulf of Mexico, trying to find and analyze deep-sea communities of coral on the dark bottom, nearly a mile below. A robot submersible was down there […]
By Dahr Jamail 19 April 2012 NEW ORLEANS (IPS/Al Jazeera) – “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.” Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of […]
By JUDY FAHYS, The Salt Lake Tribune 14 April 2012 What Bruce Tremper saw when he ventured into the Wasatch backcountry this spring surprised him. Bare patches littered the winter landscape where he was used to seeing snow — even on high-elevation ridge tops. In one of his last forecasts of the season for the […]
By JOHN M. BRODER17 April 2012 WASHINGTON – Members of the presidential panel that investigated the 2010 BP oil rig explosion and spill sharply criticized Congress on Tuesday for refusing to act on any of its recommendations and gave the Obama administration and the oil industry mixed marks. Their report [pdf] said that federal regulators […]
By Kevin Pieper, USA TODAY18 April 2012 A much-used herbicide, which for years has helped farmers throughout the United States increase profits, is losing its effectiveness and forcing producers to spend more and use more chemicals to control the weeds that threaten yields. “I’ve gone from budgeting $45 an acre just two years ago to […]
CONTACT: Center for Biological DiversityMiyoko Sakashita, miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org, (415) 632-5308April 11, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO – April 11 – A new study confirms the link between massive oyster die-offs in the Pacific Northwest and ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions. Since 2006, there have been widespread failures of natural and farmed oysters in Washington and Oregon. […]
21 March 2012 (Houston Business Journal) – The Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill could have long-term effects on the Gulf of Mexico’s aquatic food chain, a new study says [Macondo-1 well oil-derived polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mesozooplankton from the northern Gulf of Mexico]. BP Plc’s (NYSE: BP) Macondo well at the site leaked […]
Corvallis, Oregon, 10 April 2012 (SPX) – A task force that conducted one of the most comprehensive analyses of global “forage fish” populations issued its report this week, which strongly recommends implementing more conservative catch limits for these crucial prey species. The Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force [summary pdf, full pdf] calls for the harvest […]
9 April 2012 (NAU) – Global warming may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, according to new research conducted at Northern Arizona University. The study, published this week in Nature Climate Change, shows that plants may thrive in the early stages of a warming environment but begin to deteriorate quickly. “We were […]
By Lewis Smith4 April 2012 An organisation has been set up to ensure the growing demand for tuna caught by pole and line can be met without damaging fish numbers. Pole and line caught tuna is increasingly in demand by consumers – chiefly in the UK, Northern Europe Australasia, Japan and North America – because […]
