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Sleep With the Fishes		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sleep With the Fishes At least 20,000 chinook salmon and other fish have died in Northern California's Klamath River in the last two weeks, but federal officials are unwilling to attribute the deaths to the Bush administration's decision to divert water away from the river this year and into an irrigation project in southern Oregon. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Wil ...
Topics: agriculture, California, marine life, Oregon, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Old Flame		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Old Flame The chemicals in fire-resistant products help keep your home safe -- but they appear to be endangering species in the Norwegian Arctic. Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are showing up in high concentrations in the region's polar bears, whose cubs have a lower survival rate than elsewhere, as well as in the eggs of local seabirds, which area residents have been advised not to eat. Other affected species in ...
Topics: Arctic, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

For the Birds		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
For the Birds The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals was widened this week to include six types of whales, a rare Asian river dolphin, the great white shark, and a camel capable of living on salty water. The decision to increase protections for these and other animals came at the end of a meeting on the convention held this week in Bonn, Germany. To protect migratory birds from be ...
Topics: marine life, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

The Minnow Would Be Lost		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Minnow Would Be Lost The fate of the silvery minnow remains up in the air after a federal judge postponed a decision yesterday in a controversial water-rights case, saying he wanted to review information about the endangered species' habitat. For those of you who haven't been following the story, a coalition of environmental groups has asked the judge to order the city of Albuquerque to allow water t ...
Topics: marine life, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Quite a Pear		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Quite a Pear There have been wars fought over oil and opium, spices and sugarcane -- and now it seems there is a war brewing in Washington state over pears. The battle was touched off when the Seattle-based Washington Environmental Council sent a letter to an irrigation district in the eastern part of the state threatening legal actions if the district didn't stop diverting so much water to or ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, Northwest, water conflicts (all these topics)

Pigs' Stymie		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Pigs' Stymie The U.S., Saudi Arabia, and other rich nations are deliberately stymieing international efforts to encourage increased clean energy use, according to sources at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, being held this week and next in Johannesburg, South Africa. The WSSD action plan, which will be approved by heads of state at the end of the summit, currently includes a proposal that clean energy account for 15 ...
Topics: marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

On a Different Scale		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
On a Different Scale A pair of bills aimed at regulating genetically altered fish in food and the environment are facing a bitter fight in the California legislature. One of the proposed laws, a consumer right-to-know bill requiring the labeling of unpackaged transgenic fish in retail stores, passed the state Senate on Monday, but it must be approved by the Assembly by Saturday (the last day of the session) if it is to surviv ...
Topics: California, GMOs, marine life (all these topics)

Foster Care		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Foster Care Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster (R) kicked off a campaign to save his state's coastline this week by bagging a $3 million, three-year grant from, of all places, Shell Oil. "America's Wetland: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana" also earned the backing of several major national ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, environmental restoration, erosion, Louisiana, marine life, oceans, wetlands (all these topics)

Fish Out of Water		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fish Out of Water The White House has declined to appeal a U.S. federal court ruling that would provide water to the agriculture industry in California's Central Valley potentially at the expense of Northern California's fish and wildlife -- a move that has provoked anger among environmentalists. In the earlier court case, the Westlands Water District, a 600,000-acre irrigation district in the western Sa ...
Topics: California, marine life, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Fin-ished		22 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: marine life Fin-ished By virtue of its name, the whale shark summons a ferocious mental image, something along the lines of Moby Dick meets Jaws. But in reality, the creature is a gentle, slow-moving fish. Unfortunately for the species, that means whale sharks are easily captured by fishers, who chop off their fins to supply a hungry Asian market for shark-fin soup. The fins are pricey -- in China, a single whale shark fin can fetch more than $10,000 -- but as Asia has become mo ...
Topics: marine life (all these topics)

Outward Boundary		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Outward Boundary In a federal lawsuit over the legality of a new Navy sonar system said to harm marine animals, the Bush administration is challenging the scope of one of the most important pieces of U.S. environmental legislation, the National Environmental Policy Act. The act requires federal agencies to review the environmental implications of their projects, but the Justice Department ...
Topics: Department of Justice, marine life, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Killer! Whale Suits		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Killer! Whale Suits 'Tis the season to sue over whales. Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest announced this week that they plan to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service over its decision to deny protected status to orca whales in Puget Sound. In June, the NMFS found that the local orca population, which has declined 20 percent since 1996, does indeed face p ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest, NRDC, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Beluga Wails		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Beluga Wails Bad news for wealthy gourmets: By the end of this year, beluga caviar, the king of pricey delicacies, could be illegal fare in the United States. Earlier this week, the government proposed protecting the beluga sturgeon under the Endangered Species Act, following legal action against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The sturgeon, which is found in the Caspian and Black Sea ...
Topics: marine life, United States (all these topics)

Tipping the Scales		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Tipping the Scales A government-commissioned study has concluded that escapes from fish farms in Scotland pose a "major threat" to the nation's wild fish population. According to Friends of the Earth, about 1 million salmon have escaped from Scottish fish farms in the last five years. If just 1 percent of the farmed population escapes each year, the government report says, wild stocks will suffer severe losses in g ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, Scotland (all these topics)

Fish Styx		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fish Styx In Ohio, what you don't know can hurt you: The state has just cut a program that warned the public about consuming pollution-tainted fish. In the past, the state EPA and Department of Natural Resources collected fish samples and tested them for pesticides, mercury, and other toxic chemicals; the resulting information was then assessed by the state Health Department for its effects on humans and Ohioans wer ...
Topics: Great Lakes, marine life, Ohio, toxics (all these topics)

Great Burial Reef		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Great Burial Reef It's not a great time to be the Great Barrier Reef. When sea temperatures around the famed Australian landmark hit record highs early this year, 60 percent of the coral on the reef suffered from heat-related bleaching, according to marine scientists. Warm water temperatures caused the algae that live on the reef to leave, disrupting the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae and sometimes ...
Topics: Australia, climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Unsettling		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Unsettling The Bush administration is asking a federal judge to put the kibosh on a settlement that it reached 19 months ago with environmental groups to protect endangered manatees off the coast of Florida. The feds last year agreed to tighten procedures for issuing permits for waterfront development plans that might affect manatee habitat; they also said they would create manatee refuges where boating would b ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, placemaking, politics (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)

Prawn-ography		18 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Sound Science		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Science In a triumph of the military over the environment, the U.S. Navy yesterday won approval to deploy two ships that use low-frequency sonar to detect distant submarines, despite ongoing fears that the system could injure whales and other marine mammals. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration granted the Navy an exemption from federal rules protecti ...
Topics: marine life, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Cod Is Dead		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Cod Is Dead In a development that scientists have predicted for years, cod have virtually vanished from the North Sea due to overfishing, according to a report by the U.K.-based Wildlife Trusts. The species is now commercially extinct, meaning it no longer makes economic sense to try to catch it. The report also chronicles the decline of other species, ranging from the horse mussel to the sunset coral. Especially at risk is the ...
Topics: marine life, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Darwin's Flinches		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Darwin's Flinches Just weeks after scientists found that an apparently harmless oil spill in the Galapagos Islands in January 2001 in fact led to a massive iguana die-off, another spill has tainted the pristine archipelago. Late last week, a small barge spilled close to 2,000 gallons of diesel near the island of Puerto Villamil, home to turtles, iguanas, and sea lions. The spill was small ...
Topics: Ecuador, energy, Galapagos Islands, marine life, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Song Doesn't Remain the Same		20 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Song Doesn't Remain the Same Whales are the largest animals on Earth, not to mention among the most famous crooners -- but scientists fear that whale songs will soon become as obscure as 12th century lute music. According to new research, whale sounds might be no match for ambient underwater noise from commercial shipping, military sonar, and seismic surveys. That ever-increasing artificial din could reduce the distance over which w ...
Topics: marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Coral-ations	Christian Layke	18 Jun 2002	Counter Culture
To learn more about the world's coral reefs, click here. 98,572 -- square miles of coral reef in the world 1 97,100 -- square miles of the state of Wyoming 2 58 -- percentage of the world's reefs that are potentially threatened by human activities 1 34 -- percentage of the world's reefs that are off the shores of Southeast Asia 3 88 -- percentage of those reefs that are threatened 3 8 -- percentage of those reefs that are protected 3 19,643 -- square m ...
Topics: marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Who's the Unfairest of Them All		05 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Who's the Unfairest of Them All A major gas field development in the Arctic Circle's Barents Sea has won official approval from the European Free Trade Area, much to the dismay of environmentalists. Norway's state-owned energy group Statoil is running the $5.8 billion project, which will be the first commercial exploration of fossil fuel in the region and Europe's fi ...
Topics: Arctic, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, mining and drilling, Norway (all these topics)

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