Grist | Topics | 20 Results

RESULTS		Results 1 – 20 of 20
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Anyone Got an Extra PFD? Earth nearing warmest point in a million years, may see rougher El Niños		26 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Anyone Got an Extra PFD? Earth nearing warmest point in a million years, may see rougher El Niños The earth is the warmest it has been in the last 12,000 years and is within 1.8 degrees of its highest average temperature in the past million years, scientists report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The global surface temperature has increased 0.36 degrees each of the last three decades, mor ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, Pacific Ocean (all these topics)

Rhymes With 'Kulongoski' West Coast governors band together to defend Pacific Ocean		19 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Rhymes With "Kulongoski" West Coast governors band together to defend Pacific Ocean Governors of the three West Coast states announced yesterday that by their powers combined, they will strive to improve the health of the Pacific Ocean. "We know that isolated local efforts cannot adequately address the breadth of degradation to our oceans," said Washington Gov. Christin ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, news, Pacific Ocean, politics, West Coast (all these topics)

They Should Eat Their Spinach Iron-deficient phytoplankton don't absorb as much CO2, study finds		31 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
They Should Eat Their Spinach Iron-deficient phytoplankton don't absorb as much CO2, study finds Phytoplankton's ability to absorb carbon dioxide is hindered by a lack of iron in their diet, according to a study in Nature. Climate models have estimated that phytoplankton in the world's oceans have absorbed about 55 billion tons of carbon dioxide, but the new research suggests that anemic Pacific Ocean phytoplankton have seques ...
Topics: climate, news, Pacific Ocean (all these topics)

In Clemente Conditions Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium leaks into California groundwater		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
In Clemente Conditions Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium leaks into California groundwater Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that can cause cancer, miscarriages, and birth defects, has leaked from a nuclear power plant near San Clemente, Calif. Groundwater tested at up to 330,000 picocuries of tritium per liter; we don't know what a picocurie is, but California's public- ...
Topics: California, news, nuclear power, Pacific Ocean, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Who Can Plame Them? U.S. leaks IPCC report confirming climate change is happening		04 May 2006	Daily Grist
Who Can Plame Them? U.S. leaks IPCC report confirming climate change is happening A confidential draft of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been posted on the internet by U.S. officials, months before its scheduled publish date. The posting of the draft, which expresses increased confidence that global warming is human-caused and likely to have devastating consequences, is ...
Topics: climate, news, Pacific Ocean, United States (all these topics)

Think of It as Saran Wrap, to Keep the Ocean Fresh An enormous patch of plastic trash swirls in the Pacific Ocean		25 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Think of It as Saran Wrap, to Keep the Ocean Fresh An enormous patch of plastic trash swirls in the Pacific Ocean When it was a kid, the Pacific Ocean always wanted a Garbage Patch of its very own. Now it's got one: a patch of trash, at least twice the size of Texas (!), floating midway between Hawaii and San Francisco. Held together by swirling ocean currents, the refuse clump used to be mostly driftwood and rando ...
Topics: news, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast		14 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast Freaky environmental anomalies along the Pacific Coast from central California to British Columbia may devastate the region's wildlife, scientists say. Ocean temperatures in the area are 2 to 5 degrees higher than usual this summer; no one's sure why, but scientists suspect a lack of north ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, Pacific Ocean, West Coast (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles Yesterday we wrote about longline fishing wiping out large numbers of albatrosses; today, there's news that the fishing technique is messing with another charismatic critter -- the sea turtle. "In the year 2000, longline fishermen from 40 nations set at least 1.4 billion hooks on longlines that average about 40 miles long ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Food Chain Reaction Mid-Century Whaling Caused Marine Ecosystem Collapse, Scientists Say		25 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Food Chain Reaction Mid-Century Whaling Caused Marine Ecosystem Collapse, Scientists Say For years, marine biologists in the North Pacific have been puzzled by the seemingly inexplicable decline of Alaskan seals, sea lions, and otters in the region. The problem wasn't lack of food; in fact, these animals' prey populations, such as sea urchins, are booming. Now, a group of researchers think they have the answer: a collaps ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean (all these topics)

Rubber Ducky, You're the $100		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Rubber Ducky, You're the $100 Thanks to "Sesame Street," everybody over the age of two knows that rubber duckies make bath time lots of fun -- but who knew the little yellow guys could make oceanography a bit more fun, too? Eleven years ago, a shipping container carrying 29,000 rubber bath toys (frogs, turtles, and beavers, as well as the familiar duckies) fell overboard in a ...
Topics: Africa, Alaska, Atlantic Ocean, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking (all these topics)

Deep Thoughts		24 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Deep Thoughts Japanese ingenuity may soon bring both potable water and clean energy to a number of periodically parched Pacific island nations, thanks to a new desalination technology that exploits the temperature difference between the ocean's surface and its depths. The Republic of Palau in the western Pacific has teamed up with Japan's Saga University to build a plant off the nation's coast that will produce enough drinkin ...
Topics: Pacific Ocean, water pollution (all these topics)

Who Ya Gonna Call? Coast Busters!		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Who Ya Gonna Call? Coast Busters! The California legislature has passed a bill to alter the structure of the California Coastal Commission, thereby enabling the powerful board to continue regulating development along the state's coast. Seven weeks ago, a state appeals court ruled that allowing the legislature to remove commissioners at will violated the state constitution's mandate to mainta ...
Topics: California, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, state politics (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Coast Is Murky		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast Is Murky The California Coastal Commission has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court, a decision that could result in a significant power shake-up at the entity in charge of managing one of the world's most popular and politically charged coastlines. At issue is the balance of power on the commission: A maj ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, mining and drilling, oceans, Pacific Ocean, politics, state politics, water pollution (all these topics)

In Deep Du Du		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
In Deep Du Du The U.S. Navy regularly tests one of its weapons by firing radioactive ammunition into prime fishing waters off the coast of Washington state, a practice that fishers, scientists, and activists say could be harmful to human and environmental health. The weapon, known as the Phalanx or the Close In Weapons System, fires up to 4,500 rounds per minute of ...
Topics: marine life, Northwest, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy, Washington (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

The Bycatcher in the Rye		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Bycatcher in the Rye "Save the whales!" "Save the dolphins!" Those were rallying cries of the environmental movement in the 1980s and '90s, and they culminated in a successful campaign for "dolphin-safe" tuna -- that is, tuna-fishing practices in the Pacific Ocean that wouldn't harm marine mammals. Unfortunately, scientists now say that commercial f ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Little Drummer Buoy		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Little Drummer Buoy For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don't have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; ...
Topics: California, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Tijuana Ass		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tijuana Ass For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana has flowed into the Tijuana River, north through the United States, and into the Pacific Ocean, violating U.S. clean water standards. Efforts to clean up the waste have bogged down in the double-bureaucracy that plagues cross-border negotiations, with fully one dozen Mexican and U.S. mun ...
Topics: health, Mexico, outdoor recreation, Pacific Ocean, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Stories About: Pacific Ocean