http://www.oceanconserve.org/ "Ocean Conserve" is an Ocean Conservation Portal and Internet Search Tool that provides access to reviewed ocean conservation news and information Ocean Conserve a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry) http://www.oceanconserve.org/images/eilogo85.gif http://www.oceanconserve.org/ Press Association: The future of the bluefin tuna could be decided within days, along with two other endangered fish, the spiny dogfish and porbeagle, according to a national conservation charity. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said the northern Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, considered to be one of the most majestic species living in European waters, has been fished for centuries, and the effects have taken their toll. Northern bluefin, which can reach more than 3m in length, is ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/conservation-group-supports-call-for-bluefin-tuna-trade-ban-1919149.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154599 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST bluefin tuna trade ban | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Press Association: none given) Reuters: European Union ambassadors agreed to propose protecting bluefin tuna as an endangered species on Wednesday, the EU presidency said, a move that would effectively ban international trade in the species. A meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will take place from March 13 to consider a number of species, including bluefin tuna, populations of which have been decimated by overfishing. The European Commission proposed last month that ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6293QX20100310?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154632 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tuna bluefin Europe ban | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) BBC: The EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, reports indicate. The bloc is reported to have agreed to push for a ban at next week's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The US has already backed such a move, but Japan - where most bluefin is eaten - may opt out of CITES controls. The EU is likely to back exemptions for traditional fishers, and defer the ban pending scientific ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8560896.stm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154631 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST bluefin tuna Europe ban trade | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: none given) Guardian: Suzanne Goldenberg US environment correspondent The run-up to the Oscars are a heady time for nominees: a whirlwind of screenings, cocktails, celebrity encounters and, for the makers of this year's prize winning eco-documentary, secret meetings in the parking lot of a sushi restaurant with federal investigators. In an action worthy of the eco-commandos of Greenpeace, the makers of The Cove, an Oscar-winning documentary on Japan's dolphin slaughter, helped break up an ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/09/the-cove-whale-smuggling http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154525 09 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST dolphin Cove | East/South-East Asia | Japan info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Suzanne Goldenberg) LiveScience: Four newly identified worm species, including one that sports an unusual green color, have been found wriggling in the sands of the Great Barrier Reef. The layer of sand that covers the floors of the Earth's oceans is actually home to a large diversity of marine organisms. Enterprising animals can take advantage of the water-filled spaces between sand grains. The newfound creepy crawlies are members of the genus Grania, a group of worms found in marine sands throughout the ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100309/sc_livescience/newspeciesofwormfoundingreatbarrierreef http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154531 09 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST coral reefs new species | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (LiveScience: Andrea Thompson) Associated Press: An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday. The tanker pilot's attempts to regain control of the ship by speeding up, pulling an emergency stop and throwing an anchor down at full-speed all ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100309/ap_on_re_us/us_oil_spill http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154518 09 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill marine | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Ramit PLUSHNICK-MASTI) Times (UK): A marine pest could be the key to a biofuel breakthrough, say scientists. Gribble, which resemble pink woodlice, plagued seafarers for centuries by boring through the planks of ships and destroying wooden piers. But now environmental scientists are taking a keen interest in the crustaceans. A team of British researchers has learnt that gribble have a gift for digesting wood not seen in any other animal. Enzymes produced by the tiny creatures are able to break down woody ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article7054684.ece http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154460 09 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST biofuel science | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Times (UK): none given) Reuters: Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest nations still recovering from a 1991-2002 civil war, lawmakers are preparing a bill to join a seven-nation charter to protect the region's mangrove forests. Conservation group Wetlands International says the initiative is essential for West Africa to ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6272K720100308?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154409 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST mangrove protection West Africa | Africa | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Felicity Thompson) Telegraph: Despite hope that nature was fighting back, it appeared that the global wipeout of species was accelerating, they said. Speaking ahead of two next week on the state of British and European wildlife, Simon Stuart, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, admitted that the rate of extinction had not slowed. Previously research has shown that world was currently in the midst of a "sixth great extinction" of species, which was being driven by natural habitat ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7397420/Worlds-nature-becoming-extinct-at-fastest-rate-on-record-conservationists-warn.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154400 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST extinction evolution | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Andrew Hough) National Geographic: With The Cove movie winning the 2010 Oscar for best documentary Sunday night, residents of the fishing village made famous in the movie are voicing their disappointment, calling the film inaccurate and intolerant of other cultures. The Cove's makers and distributors counter that the movie won the Oscar because it was well made and worth seeing, and that the Oscar nod highlights people's concerns about the controversial practice at the heart of the movie--dolphin hunting. Every ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100308-cove-movie-oscars-dolphin-hunts-japan/ http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154340 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST dolphin hunt | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: none given) Independent (UK): The world's biggest rat-hunt is being mounted to rid a South Atlantic island of the rodents eating their way through millions of endangered seabirds. The first phase of the eradication programme will start next February on South Georgia in the hope of returning the island to its previous state as a globally important breeding site for seabirds. Over the centuriers, the rats arrived on South Georgia off whaling ships and sealers. Since then, their population has grown to several ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/ecologists-turn-exterminators-in-the-great-rat-hunt-1917801.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154195 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST invasive animal rats | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): Steve Connor) Independent (UK): Pro-whaling officials have reacted angrily to news that a documentary about a gruesome annual dolphin cull in a remote Japanese fishing town has bagged an Academy Award. The Cove, directed by photographer Louie Psihoyos, won Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars on Sunday after winning acclaim from around the world -- except from Japan. Filmed secretly over several months in the whaling town of Taiji, the documentary used hidden cameras and microphones to depict the annual ... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dolphin-cull-film-lies-says-japan-1918336.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154267 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST dolphin Cove | East/South-East Asia | Japan info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): David McNeil) New Nation: Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim, an eminent scientist of Bangladesh and nature lover notes that about 40 per cent of about 44 thousand species of the world are at stake due to climatic and other disasters. Human-induced climate change tends to reduce the genetic diversity of individual species. Again, successful adaptation to climate change may depend to a greater extent on the ability of species to disperse to new areas but this ability is also increasingly impeded by human-induced landscape change. ... http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/03/08/news0556.htm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154182 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change biodiversity global | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Nation: Muhammad Selim Hossain) Reuters: The mayor of a Japanese town which conducts an annual dolphin hunt protested on Monday against the Academy Award given to "The Cove," a documentary film about the grisly slaughter. The film, which picked up an Oscar for best documentary feature in addition to a series of other awards, follows a group of activists who struggle with Japanese police and fishermen to gain access to a secluded cove in Taiji, southern Japan, where dolphins are hunted. It features shocking footage of ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62720520100308?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154355 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST dolphin hunt | East/South-East Asia | Japan info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) McClatchy Newspapers: Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted. In some spots off Washington state and Oregon, the almost complete absence of oxygen has left piles of Dungeness crab carcasses littering the ocean floor, killed off 25-year-old sea ... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/07/89918/growing-low-oxygen-zones-in-oceans.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154136 07 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean low oxygen | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (McClatchy Newspapers: Les Blumenthal) Sydney Morning Herald: WARMER oceans, balmy evenings and high humidity have led to what meteorologists have described as ''remarkably tropical'' conditions. A two-degree increase in the water temperature off the Sydney coast has been attributed to a stronger east-coast current coming from the Tasman Sea. ''The front that is associated with this current is biologically active, which can be seen from the change in the ocean colour, meaning the chlorophyll concentration is much higher this month,'' Dr ... http://www.smh.com.au/environment/but-were-warming-to-current-idea-20100306-ppnh.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154106 07 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean warming weather | Pacific/Oceania | Australia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Sydney Morning Herald: Sarah Whyte) Inter Press Service: The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-related threats that focus is beginning to shift. Trade in some of these marine species, however, is highly lucrative, and so limiting their commercial trade has made for contentious and high-stakes international ... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50571 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154147 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tuna ban politics | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: Matthew Berger) Telegraph: The fish are considered more rare than the giant panda or tiger but are still served as a delicacy in sushi restaurants. However, following a long-running campaign, it is expected to become illegal to sell Atlantic bluefin tuna between different countries. The ruling will effectively stop a multi-billion pound industry and prevent restaurants serving the delicacy. In the past celebrity restaurants such as Nobu, where Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna dined, served the ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7378994/Bluefin-tuna-trade-could-be-banned.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154115 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST bluefin tuna trade ban | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Telegraph: ven turbines have sparked the most complaints about wind farms in the country. Residents complain of a noise like someone is "mixing cement in the sky" or a "clog is stuck in the tumble dryer" and they are not the only ones. New figures reveal that at least one in six wind farms have had complaints about noise causing a lack of sleep or just been "dreadfully irritating". The statistics show the growing concern around the health impacts of wind turbines as the Government plans ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7377641/Noise-complaints-about-one-in-six-wind-farms.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154116 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wind farms noise | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Independent (UK): European Union countries are still arguing about introducing a ban on the trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna. Conservationists say that such a ban is the only way to save the over-fished species from extinction. The proposal is top of the agenda for the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which begins in Doha at the end of next week. The EU is divided over the issue between countries which have major tuna fisheries themselves, such as France, ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/eu-nations-split-on-whether-to-ban-trade-in-tuna-1917058.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154070 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tuna trade ban Europe | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): Michael McCarthy) Times (UK): Two of the world's most iconic endangered species, the bluefin tuna and African elephant, could be protected under a backroom deal being negotiated between Europe and Africa. New rules restricting international trade in endangered species will be debated at a meeting of 175 countries beginning next week in Doha, Qatar. Europe wants to protect dwindling stocks of bluefin tuna and most African states want to prevent the sale of stockpiles of ivory to Japan and China. The ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7051923.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154056 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST species protection | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Times (UK): Ben Webster) Scotsman: A SCOTTISH explorer who was part of the first British team to walk unsupported to the North Pole is to take on a new challenge helping scientists gauge the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the Arctic Ocean. Charlie Paton is no stranger to the icy conditions of the Arctic. However, he admits he is nervous about his latest adventure, which will see him spend about ten weeks there. He will be collecting samples of sea water from beneath the Arctic ice ADVERTISEMENTfor ... http://news.scotsman.com/news/Polar-explorer-to-take-on.6129208.jp http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154088 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST polar climate explore | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Scotsman: Jenny Fyall) Inter Press Service: The frozen cap trapping billions of tonnes of methane under the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean is leaking and venting the powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, new research shows. It is not known if this may be one of the first indicators of a feedback loop accelerating global warming. Researchers estimate that eight million tonnes in annual methane emissions are being released from the shallow East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which is equivalent to all the methane released ... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50565 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154050 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane shelf leaking | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: none given) Agence France-Presse: Methane is leaking into the atmosphere from unstable permafrost in the Arctic Ocean faster than scientists had thought and could worsen global warming, a study said Thursday. From 2003 to 2008, an international research team led by University of Alaska-Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov surveyed the waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which covers more than 772,200 square miles (two million square kilometers) of seafloor in the Arctic Ocean. "This ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/huge-methane-leak-in-arctic-ocean-study-1916947.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154042 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST methane Arctic science | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) ScienceDaily: A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov. The research results, published in the March 5 edition of the journal Science, show that the permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, long thought to be an impermeable ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100304142240.htm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153922 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane release | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) New York Times: Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming. Now researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and elsewhere say this change is under way in a little-studied area under the sea, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, west of the Bering Strait. Natalia Shakhova, a scientist at the university and a leader of ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/science/earth/05methane.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153769 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane undersea release | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: CORNELIA DEAN) United Press International: Evidence of manmade global warming is stronger than the besieged U.N. climate panel claimed, with rainfall changes altering the Earth, British scientists said. "The fingerprint of human influence has been detected in many different aspects of observed climate changes," Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the Hadley Center for Climate Research run by Britain's meteorological office, said in remarks quoted by the Financial Times. "Natural variability, from the sun, volcanic ... http://www.globe-democrat.com/news/2010/mar/05/warming-data-said-stronger-than-ipcc-claim/ http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154096 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST warming data strong | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (United Press International: none given) National Geographic: "Eagle!" The shout goes up as a great shadow sweeps over our boat. The white-tailed eagle makes its descent to one of the 24,000 islands that make up Sweden's pine-covered, rocky Stockholm Archipelago. The tourists on board for this nature tour in August 2009 mostly miss the photo opp. But local wildlife expert Peter Westman, of the conservation group WWF Sweden, assures the group that there will be others. Numbers of this once-threatened predator have soared from 1,000 to more ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100305-baltic-sea-algae-dead-zones-water/ http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154063 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST dead zone suffocating | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: James Owen) Christian Science Monitor: Skepticism about climate change is going mainstream, and that is worrying. One-third of Americans now say global warming doesn't exist – triple the percentage of three years ago. This defiance of science isn't just harmful for the environment. It's also distracting us from growing threats to US national security. Actual – not theoretical – effects of climate change are turning the Arctic into a potential military flash point. Expected melting of summer sea ice in the Arctic ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100302/cm_csm/284276_1 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153951 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic warming security risk | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Christian Science Monitor: none given) Daily Mail: The potent greenhouse gas methane, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic much faster than expected and could stoke global warming. Methane had become trapped in the permafrost over time and now 8million tonnes of it is seeping out due to rising temperatures, researchers said today. 'Subsea permafrost is losing its ability to be an impermeable cap,' Natalia Shakhova, a scientist at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska, said in a statement. She co-led the study published in ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1255652/Climate-change-Methane-escaping-Arctic-faster-expected-stoke-global-warming-warn-scientists.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153879 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST methane Arctic | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Mail: none given) Reuters: Japan will not comply if a total ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna is imposed, a government official was quoted as saying on Thursday, as support grows for the unprecedented trade halt. Bluefin tuna is a highly valued fish worth up to $200-$300 per kg but stocks have depleted rapidly. It is particularly sought-after in Japan, where a single fish can fetch as much a $100,000. "If worse comes to worst, Japan will have no choice but to lodge its reservations," ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62329620100304?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153795 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST bluefin tuna ban | East/South-East Asia | Japan info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) Reuters: Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said. It was unclear, however, if the Arctic emissions of methane gas were new or had been going on unnoticed for centuries -- since before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century led to wide use of fossil fuels that are blamed for climate change. The study said about 8 million tonnes of ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6233ZU20100304?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153770 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane sea bubbles | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Alister Doyle) New Scientist: A wide expanse of Arctic Ocean seabed is bubbling methane into the atmosphere. This is the first time that the ocean has been found to be releasing this powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere on this scale. The discovery will rekindle fears that global warming might be on the verge of unlocking billions of tonnes of methane from beneath the oceans, which could trigger runaway climate change. The trouble is, nobody knows if the Arctic emissions are new, or indeed anything to do ... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18614-methane-bubbling-out-of-arctic-ocean--but-is-it-new.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154178 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane new | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Scientist: Fred Pearce) ScienceNews: With a boot for scale, this photo shows methane-rich bubbles accumulating beneath the sea ice of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf -- a shallow, Greenland-sized swath of the Arctic Ocean that scientists recently discovered is leaking large amounts of planet-warming methane.Igor Semiletov Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting ... http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56937/title/Arctic_seafloor_a_big_source_of_methane http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154174 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane seafloor | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceNews: Sid Perkins) Telegraph: However, sceptics insisted the new report did little to back up the case for spending billions of pounds on tackling global warming. The recent 'climategate' scandal around stolen emails from the University of East Anglia has cast doubt on the science around climate change. Sceptics claim that the emails show scientists were willing to manipulate the data to show that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. The UN body in charge of climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7369339/New-evidence-for-man-made-global-warming.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153924 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST man made global warming evidence | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) BBC: There is a recent and rather macabre addition to the marine biologist's toolkit. Scientists in Canada are using the bodies of dead pigs, diverted from the butcher's shop, in their undersea laboratory. By ending up in ocean experiments (rather than on the dinner table), the pigs have provided scientists with some intriguing new data. "The dead pigs were not my idea," says Dr Verena Tunnicliffe, professor of marine biology at the University of Victoria in Canada. She ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8545155.stm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153928 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean dead zone science | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Victoria Gill) Associated Press: No, not The Blob, but something perhaps far more sinister: methane, a potent greenhouse gas 30 times better than carbon dioxide at trapping atmospheric heat. Research released Thursday finds that underground methane appears to be seeping through the Arctic Ocean floor and into the Earth's atmosphere, thanks to a weakening of the protective layer of permafrost at the bottom of the ocean. Once released into the atmosphere, methane could wreak havoc with the world's ... http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2010-03-05-methane05_ST_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153764 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane havoc climate | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Doyle Rice) National Geographic: Arctic seabeds are belching massive quantities of methane, according to a new study that says ocean permafrost is a huge and largely overlooked source of the powerful greenhouse gas, which has been linked to global warming. Previous research had found methane bubbling out of melting permafrost--frozen soil--in Arctic wetlands and lakes. But the permafrost lining the deep, cold seas was thought to be staying frozen solid, holding in untold amounts of trapped ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100304-methane-global-warming-permafrost-oceans/ http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153754 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic methane sea | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: none given) National Geographic: Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean--a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. "Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. "But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic." The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/ http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153667 03 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ocean plastic toxic | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: Richard A. Lovett) BBC: A 18m (60 feet) long boat made mostly from trash is patiently waiting for fair weather so it can take to the high seas to drive home the environmental message of recycling, reusing and rethinking the way we deal with plastic. The appropriately named Plastiki, which is made from over 12,500 plastic bottles, will set sail from San Francisco and head to Sydney with eco-warrior and banking heir David De Rothschild at the helm. He was inspired to set up the expedition after reading ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8540299.stm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153644 03 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST recycle plastic | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Maggie Shiels) Daily Star: Climate change is already a reality for Bangladesh, but the initiatives taken by the World Bank and other development partners to tackle its impacts are inadequate, said State Minister for Environment and Forest Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday. Hasan Mahmud was the chief guest at the consultation meeting of the World Bank environment strategy held at a city hotel. The World Bank organised the consultation meeting as part of the process of updating its global environment strategy for ... http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=128478 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153715 03 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change policy inadequate | South Asia | Bangladesh info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Star: Says Hasan Mahmud) Daily Mirror: Global warming has triggered the sixth mass extinction of life on earth and this time human life is being threatened along with that of animals and plants due to man-made causes, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka said, addressing the Chamber of Pharmaceutical Industries on Monday. Delivering his presentation on global warming, the Minister explained that there had been five major extinctions in the history of life on earth, with the last one dating ... http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/business/127-local/5011.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153698 03 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST extinction sixth | South Asia | Sri Lanka info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Mirror: Cheranka Mendis) Mongabay: Mass extinction, ocean acidification, deforestation, pollution, desertification, and climate change: the environmental issues facing the world are numerous and increasingly global in nature. To respond more effectively, the United Nations is considering forming a World Environmental Organization or WEO, similar to the World Trade Organization. The idea was first seriously considered at Copenhagen in December, but has taken a step forward at an annual meeting of the United Nation ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0302-hance_weo.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153619 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST global environment organization | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Jeremy Hance) BBC: Commercial and political interests are abusing historical whaling rights of indigenous people, says Chris Butler-Stroud. In this week's Green Room, he says that ambiguities in international regulations are creating a "dangerous and uncertain" future for whales. When the authors of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling negotiated their first draft in 1946 and created the International Whaling Commission (IWC), they accepted that there were people, especially in the ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8545073.stm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153570 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST whaling indigenous rights | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Chris Butler-Stroud) ScienceDaily: Fossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today's human activity. Reef ecosystems were able to persist through massive environmental changes imposed by sharply falling sea levels during previous ice ages, an international scientific team has found. This provides new hope for their capacity to endure the increasing human impacts forecast for the 21st century. In the ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301182106.htm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153551 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST coral reefs anciet | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) Telegraph: The pair became stranded after climbing onto the chunk of ice during a expedition to hunt seals. Soon the ice floe shrank down to just a few yards and rapidly drifted down the Olga Strait of Svalbard in Norway. But although the bears look frightened, huddled together in the centre of the iceberg, experts predicted that the agile swimmers will be able to get safely back to shore. Images of polar bears stranded out at sea are often used to highlight the affect of global warming ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7078673/Will-polar-bears-make-it-back-to-shore.html http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153572 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST polar bear ice melt | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) ScienceDaily: A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation wrought by climate change. A paper published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at Penn State University, the University at Buffalo, the University of Oslo, and other institutions is filling in key ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301141848.htm http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153556 01 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST polar bear climate evolution | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) Scientific American: Climactic changes might currently be threatening the survival of polar bears (Ursus maritimus), but similar shifts appear to have played an important part in bringing the species into existence in the not too distant past. Researchers announced today that they have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of an ancient polar bear. The genetic traces they found in the bear's 110,000- to 130,000-year-old jawbone reveal that the species likely split from brown bears (U. arctos) just 150,000 ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=polar-bear-genome-climate http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153513 01 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate polar bear evolve | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Scientific American: Katherine Harmon) National Public Radio: There may be no polar bears at the South Pole, but there sure is a lot of ice. In fact, more than 90 percent of the Earth's glacial ice is in Antarctica. Now, new research shows the continent's ice is melting in more places than previously known. Host Guy Raz speaks to scientist Jane Ferrigno of the U.S. Geological Survey about the Antarctic Peninsula's ice retreat. GUY RAZ, host: In Antarctica, you'll find 90 percent of the world's glacial ice, but new research from the ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124178690 http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153479 01 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Antarctic melting ice | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Public Radio: none given) Associated Press: China is starting to prepare for the commercial and strategic opportunities arising as global warming melts the polar ice cover in the Arctic, an international peace research group said Monday. Researchers expect the North Pole to be ice free during summer months in a matter of decades, opening up new shipping lanes and potential resource exploration in an area believed to contain as much as a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas. Competing sovereignty claims in the ... http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-china-arctic,0,6349420.story http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=153476 01 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic ice free | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Louise Nordstrom)