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Thar and Thar and Thar She Blows Southern Right Whales Rebounding in South African Waters		21 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Thar and Thar and Thar She Blows Southern Right Whales Rebounding in South African Waters In a rare bit of good news about the marine environment, southern right whales are making an impressive comeback in the waters of South Africa. The mammals were pushed to the brink of extinction by whaling until protections were put in place in 1935; in recent years, annual counts off the South African coast have found steadily increasi ...
Topics: business, oceans, South Africa (all these topics)

Calf-kaesque Melting of South American Glaciers Leads to Sea-Level Rise		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Calf-kaesque Melting of South American Glaciers Leads to Sea-Level Rise Glaciers in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina and Chile are melting so fast that they are leading to a tiny but notable rise in sea level, U.S. scientists report in the latest issue of the journal Science. The glaciers are melting twice as quickly as they were in 1975, an increase that the researchers attribute to global warming. Between 199 ...
Topics: Argentina, Chile, climate, oceans (all these topics)

Navy Gravy U.S. Navy Agrees to Reduce Use of Sonar System Linked to Whale Deaths		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Navy Gravy U.S. Navy Agrees to Reduce Use of Sonar System Linked to Whale Deaths In a sweet but possibly temporary victory for environmentalists, the U.S. Navy has agreed to dramatically decrease its use of a low-frequency sonar system that has been associated with the deaths of whales and other marine mammals. A court agreement announced yesterday limits the Navy to using the sonar system in less than 1 perce ...
Topics: oceans, US Navy, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Bubble Trouble Navy Sonar Is Causing the Bends in Marine Mammals, Report Says		09 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Bubble Trouble Navy Sonar Is Causing the Bends in Marine Mammals, Report Says Sonar from navy ships appears to be giving whales and other marine mammals the bends, that infamous bane of scuba divers and other deep-sea adventurers, according to a report published in the latest edition of the journal Nature. Researchers from England and Spain found air bubbles in tissues and blood vessels of whales that died in the Canary Islands shortly afte ...
Topics: oceans, US Navy (all these topics)

Minding Nemo Tropical Fish Trade Threatens Coral Reef Ecosystems		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Minding Nemo Tropical Fish Trade Threatens Coral Reef Ecosystems More than 20 million tropical fish and up to 10 million other marine critters are caught each year for the aquarium trade, according to a new report from the U.N. Environment Programme. One of the most destructive harvesting methods involves stunning tropical fish with a near-lethal dose of sodium cyanide, which can harm not only fish but c ...
Topics: Asia, marine life, oceans, toxics, United Nations (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)

Moon Lighting Moon-Driven Tidal Power Delivers Electricity to Norwegian Homes		22 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Moon Lighting Moon-Driven Tidal Power Delivers Electricity to Norwegian Homes Turns out the sun isn't the only celestial body that can provide eco-friendly power; the moon is now getting into the game. This weekend, a number of homes in the far north of Norway started getting energy from a sub-sea power station driven by the rise and fall of the tides, which are determined by the gravitational pull of the moon. The power sy ...
Topics: Norway, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska The Bush administration is moving aggressively to open Alaska's coastal waters to oil exploration -- a campaign that is not getting nearly as much public scrutiny as efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The administration plans to offer eight oil and gas lea ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Not Just a Day in the Park More than 11 percent of Earth is Protected, But Species Still Suffer		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Not Just a Day in the Park More than 11 percent of Earth is Protected, But Species Still Suffer There's good news and bad news from the fifth World Parks Congress, being held this week in Durban, South Africa. The good news: There are now more than 100, 000 protected natural areas on the planet, including large stretches of the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra. The bad news: More than 700 endangered animal species risk extinction ...
Topics: oceans, wilderness (all these topics)

Sand Witches Artificial and Restored Beaches Threaten Marine Ecosystems		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Sand Witches Artificial and Restored Beaches Threaten Marine Ecosystems Beautiful sand beaches are one of Ma Nature's most splendid creations -- except sometimes they're actually the handiwork of humans. Every year, millions of dollars go to creating sand beaches on previously rocky coasts and rebuilding beaches at key tourist destinations that have been eroded by storms, changing currents, and risi ...
Topics: environmental restoration, erosion, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Re-sounding Victory Judge Orders Navy to Curtail Use of Sonar to Protect Marine Life		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Re-sounding Victory Judge Orders Navy to Curtail Use of Sonar to Protect Marine Life In a victory for ocean advocates, a federal judge in California ruled yesterday that the U.S. Navy can't globally deploy a new submarine-hunting sonar system because the military neglected to follow federal laws when determining whether the sonar could harm whales and other marine animals. At the same time, Judge Elizabeth Laporte r ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, politics, US Navy (all these topics)

Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc Conservationists are warning that plans to build the world's largest energy project -- a massive pipeline and three oil-drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan -- could mean environmental disaster. T ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, oceans, Russia, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Thar It Blows First Minke Whale Killed in 14 Years		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Thar It Blows First Minke Whale Killed in 14 Years A team of Icelandic hunters who resumed whaling recently despite international protests killed a minke whale yesterday, the first in 14 years. The team, from Iceland's Marine Research Institute, plans to kill 37 more in the next six weeks. The hunt is part of a research program, and thus technically legal under the International Whaling Convention, and the hunters say minke whales have beco ...
Topics: Iceland, oceans (all these topics)

Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says The leak from the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain last year probably caused more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, according to a new report by a private Spanish economic institute. Some 78,000 metric tons of fuel have been cleansed from beaches since the November sinking, and the Prestige continues ...
Topics: business, oceans, Spain, water pollution (all these topics)

Logbook Rolling		25 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Logbook Rolling Prior to commercial whaling, far more whales thrived in the North Atlantic than previously thought, according to a study published in today's issue of Science. Earlier studies estimated historical whale populations by combing through logbooks from old whaling ships; the current study was the first to look instead at telltale genetic variations that increase as the population of a species grows. Based on that tool, the ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, oceans (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)

Cod Is Dead Richard Ellis's The Empty Ocean delves into the world of marine destruction	Elizabeth Grossman	24 Jul 2003	Arts and Minds
"It's a fire alarm," says Richard Ellis about his new book, The Empty Ocean, which joins a chorus of recent publications documenting the precipitous decline of world fisheries and the dire state of the marine environment. That alarm should make you think long and hard about your lunchtime tuna sandwich or the sashimi you order at your favorite Japanese restaurant. T ...
Topics: marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Tangled Up in Deep Blue		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tangled Up in Deep Blue Each day, nearly 1,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises are sent to an untimely death after they get tangled up in nets and other fishing equipment, according to a new study conducted by American and Scottish scientists and released by the World Wildlife Fund. These accidental captures may be the biggest threat to the sea mammals' survival, more deadly than pollution and collisions with ships ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

You Cruise, You Lose A review of Cruise Ship Blues	Hal Clifford	12 Jun 2003	Arts and Minds
Quick -- what's the third-largest city in Alaska? For all intents and purposes, during the summer, it is the 45,000 people found on the dozens of cruise ships that ply that state's southeastern coastal waters. And the effects of that "city" on the natural environment are indeed urban, in the worst imaginable ways. Cruise Ship Blues By Ross A. Klein New Society, 200 pages, 2002 The average cruise passen ...
Topics: oceans, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Don't Fear the Reefer		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Fear the Reefer The Australian government today announced plans to put nearly one-third of the Great Barrier Reef off limits to fishing and trawling. "This will provide the largest network of protected marine areas in the world," said Minister for the Environment David Kemp. Environmental advocates praised the move but pointed out that the government needs to do more, including protect a ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? A Peruvian activist takes on the fishmeal industry	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2003	Main Dish
Maria Elena Foronda Farro was born to be an activist. Her father, a union lawyer in Chimbote, Peru, taught her -- through words and by example -- about the importance of social justice. Foronda, who grew up in Chimbote and earned a master's degree in sociology in Mexico, is now applying her father's lessons to her hometown. Maria Elena Foronda Farro. Photo: Richard Goldgewich ...
Topics: air pollution, business, fishing, health, interview, Mexico, oceans, Peru (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, oceans, Peru, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Research and Destroy		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Research and Destroy It's been a bad news week for whales. First, Iceland announced that it would begin hunting minke, fin, and sei whales again after a 13-year hiatus. The nation says the whaling will be strictly for research purposes, but environmentalists say the plan is a smokescreen for commercial hunts. The World Conservation Union's Red List ranks fin and sei whales as endangered, while North Atlantic minkes are near-threaten ...
Topics: Iceland, Japan, oceans (all these topics)

Dyna-shore		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Dyna-shore In a triumph for Golden State environmentalists, the Bush administration decided yesterday against asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two lower court decisions upholding California's right to review proposed offshore drilling projects along its coast. Gov. Gray Davis (D) hailed the decision, noting, "The future of California beaches is now where it should be -- in ...
Topics: California, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition Hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens hit the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest the national government's poor handling of the Prestige oil tanker spill, which has been labeled the worst environmental disaster in the country's history. Hundreds of chartered buses brought in protesters from Ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, placemaking, Spain (all these topics)

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