Dead, dying coral found near BP spill called ‘smoking gun’ — ‘We have never seen anything like this’

msnbc.com staff and news service reportsupdated 11/5/2010 5:07:41 PM ET Scientists returning from an expedition off the Gulf Coast said Friday they found dead and dying deepwater coral near the BP oil spill site that was covered in a brown substance. “The compelling evidence that we collected constitutes a smoking gun” that the substance is […]

Video: Madagascar’s president linked to illegal logging

www.wildmadagascar.org November 05, 2010 Video released by Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency reveals Chinese rosewood traders have direct links to Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina, who seized power during a March 2009 military coup. The undercover investigation found several instances of dealers in China who claim direct dealings with the highest levels of Madagascar’s […]

Scientists find dead and dying coral covered with a brown substance 7 miles from BP oil spill site

By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune Thursday, November 04, 2010, 10:00 PM A brown substance is killing coral organisms in colonies located 4,600 feet deep about seven miles southwest of the failed BP Macondo oil well, according to scientists who returned Thursday from a three-week cruise studying coral reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The […]

Groundwater threat to rivers worse than suspected

Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 03, 2010 – Excessive groundwater development represents a greater threat to nearby rivers and streams during dry periods (low flows) than previously thought, according to research released by CSIRO. In an address to the Groundwater 2010 Conference in Canberra, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship scientist, Dr David Rassam, said […]

Graph of the Day: Weight of Pacific Herring, 1970-2008

Estimates of weight-at-age (g) for 3-6 year old herring from 1970 to 2008. There has been a significant change in the size of Pacific herring, a key forage species. Similar to that of the West Coast of Vancouver Island ecozone, a decline in the weight-at-age of Pacific herring occurred from 1970–2008. This decline is currently […]

We’ve been conned: The deal to save the natural world never happened

The so-called summit in Japan won’t stop anyone trashing the planet. Only economic risks seem to make governments act. By George Monbiot, www.guardian.co.uk Monday, 1 November 2010 21.00 GMT ‘Countries join forces to save life on Earth”, the front page of the Independent told us. “Historic”, “a landmark”, a “much-needed morale booster”, the other papers […]

Illegal logging rampant in Vietnam

www.mongabay.com November 01, 2010    Illegal logging is rampant in Vietnam, according to a new report from the the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s General Forestry Department. As reported by Viet Nam News, there have been 2,463 illegal logging cases across Vietnam so far this year. Action to address logging has resulted in 44 forest […]

Pacific fisheries face collapse by 2035: study

Wellington (AFP) Oct 27, 2010 – Pacific island fisheries face collapse in the next 25 years as overfishing, population growth and climate change threaten one of the region’s main economic resources, a study warned Wednesday. The report, [pdf] published by the Noumea-based Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), said the two billion US dollar a […]

The decline of the eel in Britain

By Jon Henley, The GuardianWednesday 27 October 2010 There are six of them, writhing lazily at the bottom of Darryl Clifton-Dey’s plastic tank. “Weird” doesn’t, frankly, do them justice: small, beady eyes; big ugly snout. Sinuous, slimy; even on a sunny morning on the banks of the Thames, faintly sinister. Beasts of legend and bad […]

China’s soaring demand for luxury wood fuels destruction of Madagascar’s forests

By Staff WritersNagoya, Japan (UPI) Oct 26, 2010 China’s soaring demand for luxury wood furniture is fueling the destruction of Madagascar’s forests, says a new report launched Tuesday at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan. The report from Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency shows that about 98 percent of […]

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