One of the driest springs on record has sparked fears for agriculture and wildlife, while crews ‘work to the point of exhaustion’ to battle forest fires By Matt Chorley and Tom Moseley15 May 2011 Ministers are to hold an emergency drought summit in an attempt to avert a crisis caused by one of the driest […]
Media ContactsCheryl Dybas, NSF (703) 292-7734 cdybas@nsf.govTerry Devitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison (608) 262-8282 trdevitt@wisc.eduApril 28, 2011 Researchers eavesdropping on complex signals from a remote Wisconsin lake have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning–a death knell–of the impending collapse of the lake’s aquatic ecosystem. The finding, reported today in the journal Science by a […]
By Stuart Biggs, Kanoko Matsuyama, and Frederik Balfour 25 April 2011 The wreckage of a 379-metric ton tuna boat blocks the road to the deserted fish market in Kesennuma, once Japan’s largest port for bonito and swordfish. Even after the debris from last month’s tsunami has been cleared away, the industry may never recover. “Thirty […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 21 April 2011 Researchers contacted by the Press-Register expressed almost uniform surprise at the apparent rebound in nearshore environments a year after 200 million gallons of oil began pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. With the caveat that much remains unknown — and problems could still emerge at any time — […]
Contact: Nicki Chadwick, Media Relations Officer, IUCN Office, t +41 22 999 0229, m +41 79 528 3486, nicki.chadwick@iucn.org;19 April 2011 More than 40 species of marine fish currently found in the Mediterranean could disappear in the next few years. According to a study for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ on the status […]
By Times-Picayune Staff Monday, April 18, 2011 One year ago Wednesday the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and starting a months-long spilling of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Here is what other media outlets are saying about it: One Year Later: Assessing the Lasting Impact of the Gulf Spill (Yale Environment […]
By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers14 April 2011 WASHINGTON — In Canada’s Fraser River, a mysterious illness has killed millions of Pacific salmon, and scientists have a new hypothesis about why: The wild salmon are suffering from viral infections similar to those linked to some forms of leukemia and lymphoma. For 60 years before the early […]
By Richard Black 14 April 2011 Just how …….d are the world’s oceans? I’ve put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there’s one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a […]
By Lewis Smith12 April 2011 Data released under freedom of information legislation has uncovered what anglers say are “alarming” and “morally indefensible” levels of sea lice infestations at Scottish salmon farms. Official inspections of Scotland’s salmon farms over a two year period recorded 68 cases where levels of sea lice – which can be fatal […]
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2011 – Concentrated waste plumes from fish farms could travel significant distances to reach coastlines, according to a study to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Environmental Fluid Mechanics, available online now. Roz Naylor, Oliver Fringer and Jeffrey Koseff of the Woods Institute for the Environment at […]
