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Tank You Very Much		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tank You Very Much A technique invented to reduce corrosion of steel components on ships could also prevent exotic species from stowing away in the ballast water of cargo ships. The technique, which was designed by Mario Tamburri of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in collaboration with Japanese scientists, involves pumping nitrogen gas into ballast tanks, thereby virtually e ...
Topics: climate, Japan, marine life, placemaking, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Go Fish!		08 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Go Fish! Maine's wild Atlantic salmon remain genetically distinct despite more than a century of fish-stocking, aquaculture escapes, and other threats to the species, according to an independent report prepared by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The report undermines the claim by Maine Gov. Angus King (I) and others that Maine salmon were genetically diluted and therefore did not merit protection ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, fishing, GMOs, Maine, marine life (all these topics)

Running a Groundfish		04 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Running a Groundfish The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service is breaking the law by failing to sufficiently protect groundfish in New England, a federal judge ruled last Friday. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said she would issue an order with specific directions for how the agency should stop overfishing, because the NMFS can't be trusted to enforce the ...
Topics: environmental justice, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, New England, politics (all these topics)

Pulling Back the Rains		03 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Pulling Back the Rains A single rainstorm can whisk 10,000 tons of dirt and grit and millions of pounds of toxics and nutrient pollution into the Chesapeake Bay. Officials from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the District of Columbia are unveiling plans today to rein in rain-related pollution problems, in the first major restoration effort they've announced since pledging well over a y ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Right Turnabout		29 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Right Turnabout The outlook is grim for the Northern right whale, one of the most endangered animals in the world, but simple measures could bring the species back from the brink of extinction, according to a report released today. The authors of the report, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, concluded that if just two female right whales escaped needless death per year, the s ...
Topics: marine life, Mexico, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us Which is the lesser of two evils -- malaria or DDT? The former kills a million people per year in Africa, many of them infants and children; the latter is the most effective weapon against the virulent disease, but is lethal to fish and wildlife, and thought to be hazardous to humans as well. Two years ago, South Africa opted to fight malaria with DDT -- a decision one government official c ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Flying Fish		04 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flying Fish A proposal to create marine parks off the coast of California has led to shouting matches between environmentalists and scientists on the one side and the fishing industry and recreational anglers on the other. The proposal would prevent fishing and other human activities in as much as 20 percent of state waters -- a 100-fold increase over the current 0.2 percent protected by state law. Oppo ...
Topics: California, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Slammin' Salmon		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Slammin' Salmon Tens of thousands of Atlantic salmon have escaped from British Columbia fish farms into 77 of the province's waterways, according to a new report by the Canadian Parliament's Senate Committee on Fisheries. The aquaculture industry had dismissed concerns that farm-raised Atlantic salmon would ever escape and be able to survive in the wild, posing a threat to native Pacific salmon. But the new report says the esc ...
Topics: Canada, fishing, marine life (all these topics)

This Rocks, Fish!		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
This Rocks, Fish! Enviros scored a victory yesterday when a federal judge ordered the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to do more to protect two species of rockfish, bocaccio and lingcod. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Larson of San Francisco said that the agency had failed to track the number of rockfish that die after they are inadvertently caught and tossed back -- and that current fishing limits for the ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service (all these topics)

Not in a While, Crocodile		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Not in a While, Crocodile Enviros say more than 10,000 endangered crocodiles in Paraguay are dying because a major river that irrigated their swamplands is now being diverted to provide water for agriculture in Argentina. The crocodiles, known as Yacares, are starving to death or being encased in mud as the swamps dry up. Their numbers had been climbing before the Pilcomayo Ri ...
Topics: Argentina, food and agriculture, marine life, Paraguay, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Don't Touch That Fish With a 10-foot Pole		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Touch That Fish With a 10-foot Pole Mercury was discovered in Columbia River fish in Washington state more than a decade ago, but the state hasn't yet posted signs to warn anglers about the dangers of eating mercury-tainted fish. One Health Department official said the major reason for not posting signs was that they would cost too much. Meanwhile, a state government website urges folks visiting Lake ...
Topics: Columbia River, marine life, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Gulp of Mexico		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Gulp of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, where nutrient pollution from farms in the Midwest has chocked off fish life, is bigger this year than ever before, according to university researchers. Stretching from the Mississippi River delta to Texas waters, the 8,000-square-mile, low-oxygen area is forcing crabs and other bottom feeders to the surface. Enviro ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Back Flipper		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Back Flipper A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. government's bid to loosen the standard for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The U.S. wanted to open its dolphin-safe market to Mexican and Latin American fishers who catch tuna in large purse-seines and promise to set fre ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, Earth Island Institute, environmental justice, globalization, marine life, Mexico, politics, South America, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Great Brain Robbery		19 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Great Brain Robbery Eating fish tainted with PCBs may cause memory loss and brain damage in adults, according to a study of Michigan residents. The study by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the first to suggest that PCBs in fish may have health implications for all adults; state fish advisories until now have focused on protecting pregnant women, fetuses, and young children. Michigan ships ...
Topics: health, marine life, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

You Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes		19 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
You Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes At least 35 sea lions were found dead and mutilated in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands on Sunday. Acting on an anonymous tip, officials of the Galapagos National Park discovered the bodies washed up on the beach, with their teeth and genitalia removed. Authorities suspect that the sea lions were killed to sell the body parts as aphrodisiacs in Asia. Sea lions have no natural predators and g ...
Topics: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, marine life (all these topics)

Succor Fish		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Succor Fish The U.S. Interior Department has rejected a request to convene the cabinet-level Endangered Species Committee -- known as the "God Squad" -- to consider whether allocating water to farmers in the Klamath River Basin on the Oregon-California border should rank above saving several species of fish. Farmers in the region have protested a move by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to al ...
Topics: California, marine life, Oregon, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Mississippi Delta Blues Pollution is flushing marine life down the drain	David Helvarg	24 May 2001	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas. Predictable but unreported impacts from this spring's flooding on the Mississippi River will be an expanded dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, more southern beach closures, and more dying coral in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. A pesticide begins its journey to the sea. Every day, some 32 billion gallons of ag ...
Topics: marine life, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

The Customer is Always Right	Suzy Becker	19 Mar 2001	Ha.

Topics: marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Tread-milling About Why do we compete even though we know it hurts us?	Donella H. Meadows	11 Sep 2000	Global Citizen
Not beary funny. Photo: Art Wolfe, Inc. I've heard the joke about the bear before, and so, probably, have you. Two guys are sitting outside their tent in a forest campsite when they see a huge angry bear charging toward them. One starts lacing up his running shoes. The other says, "Are you crazy? You'll never outrun that bear!" The first says, "I don't have to outrun the bear. ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, logging, marine life (all these topics)

Finders, Keepers This Georgia riverkeeper has a red neck and a green heart	Gail Krueger	27 Jul 2000	Main Dish
James Holland was a crabber for more than 30 years. Now he's the president and full-time field director of the Altamaha Riverkeeper, an activist group he founded to clean up Georgia's biggest river basin. James Holland -- he doesn't wear fleece. The rough-hewn Holland -- with his missing front teeth, ninth-grade education, and fierce determination -- embodies the new environmental movement in t ...
Topics: Georgia, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

What Would Costas Christ Do? Preaching the gospel of ecotourism	Lisa Jones	03 Mar 2000	Main Dish
Costas Christ has a knack for handling sticky situations. I got a glimpse of this as I was making my way home from an ecotourism conference in Senegal in the early 1990s. Along with a number of other conference participants, I was stuck in the airport in the capital city of Dakar. For some unknown reason, the ticket agents had stalled us, so we were doing what American ecotourists often do when the Third Wo ...
Topics: Africa, education, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, travel, Uganda, wildlife (all these topics)

In an Octopus's Garden	Suzy Becker	07 Feb 2000	Ha.

Topics: climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Another Reason for Lobster Die-Offs	Suzy Becker	17 Jan 2000	Ha.

Topics: marine life (all these topics)

Forty	Josh Sevin	12 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ...
Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

Killing Dolphins for Free Trade	David R. Brower, David Phillips, William Snape	06 Dec 1999	Soapbox
By David R. Brower, David Phillips and William Snape 06 Dec 1999 Grist readers deserve better than the poorly informed coverage of the tuna/dolphin issue in a recent article by Rick Gaffney, which makes false and misleading claims about "dolphin safe" tuna fishing methods. A dolphin in the deep. Earth Island Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, the Humane Society of the United States, and dozens of other organizations have worked on the tuna/dolphin issue f ...
Topics: marine life, Mexico, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

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