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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

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)

To Russia, With Empty Tanks		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Russia, With Empty Tanks As President Bush weighs the pros and cons of waging war on Iraq, the issue of U.S. oil energy security looms large. And although no one would have believed it 50 years ago, the U.S. is increasingly contemplating Russia as a stable and desirable alternative source of oil. The strategic partnership between the Cold War-era e ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Middle East, oceans, politics, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Cruise Control		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cruise Control Norwegian Cruise Line, the fourth-largest cruise company in the world, will pay a $1.5 million fine for illegally dumping oil and untreated wastewater into the ocean, and subsequently lying about its actions. The company kept a false logbook and for three years lied to the Coast Guard about unlawful discharges off the coast ...
Topics: Alaska, business, Florida, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (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)

Beached Wails		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Beached Wails You might want to think twice before you head out with your sunscreen and towel this weekend. The number of sewage-tainted beaches is on the rise, jumping 19 percent between 2000 to 2001, according to a report released yesterday by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group said that 13,410 beach closings and water advisories were issued by government agencies in 2001, ...
Topics: NRDC, oceans, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (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 But Not Forgotten On the Mexican coast, little shrimp are causing big trouble	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Jul 2002	Main Dish
Just above the high-tide mark on the coast of northern Mexico, elegant fingers of pitaya cacti rise far above the surrounding mesquite trees. Roseate spoonbills and frigatebirds sail silently overhead, a dolphin skirts the tangle of mangroves near the shore, and a fishing boat sputters out to the Sea of Cortez. On this muggy, almost unbearably hot slice of Sonoran coastline, sunset ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, Mexico, oceans (all these topics)

Around the Underworld in ...		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Around the Underworld in ... If Don Delillo and Jules Verne had ever collaborated on a novel, they might have written the story that's currently reaching its denouement in Pennsylvania: "Around the World with 14,855 Tons of Trash." That's how much garbage left Pennsylvania 16 years ago, destined to earn a reputation as the best-traveled and least-wan ...
Topics: Bahamas, Haiti, oceans, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (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)

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)

Whale Killers		04 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Whale Killers The killer whale population has declined 20 percent since 1995, and scientists think they've found one of the reasons why: whale watchers. The motorized boats that serve whale-watchers disrupt the orcas' sonar, reducing its efficiency by as much as 99 percent. That means whales have to swim harder and longer to find food; in so doing, their bodies consume more blubber, which is a storehouse of tox ...
Topics: oceans, toxics, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Great White-meat Whale		20 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: oceans Great White-meat Whale The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission began today in Japan, with the host nation calling for an end to a 16-year ban on commercial whaling. Japanese Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe urged IWC member nations to regard whales "in the same light as other living marine resources"-- that is, edible. Japan argues that whale populations have grown substantially since the ban was imposed, making its continued ...
Topics: oceans (all these topics)

Whalie Meatie -- What a Treaty!		20 May 2002	Daily Grist
Whalie Meatie -- What a Treaty! In other whale news, the Makah nation in northwestern Washington won another affirmation of its treaty rights late last week, when a U.S. district judge rejected efforts by animal rights activists to suspend Makah whaling until a lawsuit on the issue is resolved. The Makah are the only native people in the Lower 48 to retain the right to hunt whales through a treaty with the U.S. government. The tribe s ...
Topics: oceans, United States (all these topics)

Smokin' Reefer		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Smokin' Reefer Move over, Great Barrier Reef: Coral researchers recently discovered what they think is the most valuable reef cluster in the world. Known collectively as Raja Ampat, the reefs are located in a remote archipelago off the coast of Indonesia. In the course of a two-and-a-half week expedition there, a survey team recorded 972 species -- 283 of them in a single dive. Gerald Allen, the team's lead researcher, descr ...
Topics: Indonesia, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Watch 'Em Blow, See 'Em Glow!	Suzy Becker	13 May 2002	Ha.

Topics: nuclear power, oceans (all these topics)

Grim Reefer		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Reefer Coral reefs are usually associated with the balmy blue waters of the tropics, but the amazing underwater kingdoms exist in cooler climes, too -- at least for now. A new study by French, British, and Norwegian scientists found that 4,500-year-old reefs in the northeastern Atlanti ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Mickey Mao's		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Mickey Mao's It might be the Magic Kingdom, but sometimes it has to face reality: That's the message of an environmental study released today on a future Disney theme park in Hong Kong. Environmentalists have attacked the $1.8 billion project as an ecological nightmare, and now the report seconds the opinion. The park is slated to be built in Penny's B ...
Topics: Asia, business, food and agriculture, Hong Kong, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, wildlife (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)

Shore: Enough		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shore: Enough An innovative if controversial bill could protect offshore waters in California from oil drilling by allowing oil companies to swap drilling claims in California for others in the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, introduced yesterday by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and John Breaux (D-La.), would convert 40 offshore tra ...
Topics: California, Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, oceans, wilderness (all these topics)

Bang Dugong		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bang Dugong The animal that inspired seafarers to tell tales of mermaids is disappearing from the planet, according to a report released this week. The dugong, a large sea mammal that is a cousin to the famous manatee of Florida and the Caribbean, was thought by ancient sailors to be half-woman, half-fish, perhaps because of its habit of holding its young with one f ...
Topics: Caribbean, Florida, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Duck, Duck, Gross		24 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Duck, Duck, Gross More than a dozen years after an Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil, nearly 10,000 gallons of the oil remain buried under the shoreline. The lingering oil was documented during a three-month field study last summer; the study's results were presented this week during t ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Deep Sea Diving		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Deep Sea Diving As if all the political strife weren't enough, here's more grim news from the Middle East: The Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth, is getting even lower. In the last decade, the sea, which already lies more than 1,300 feet below sea level, has fallen an additional 20 feet. Scientists attribute the change to a drop in the water table around the Dead Sea, wh ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, Middle East, oceans, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oil the Way		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Oil the Way California Gov. Gray Davis (D) reiterated his opposition to offshore oil drilling in his state yesterday and vowed he would fight the Bush administration all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary to stop development of 36 drilling leases granted by the federal government. Because of a moratorium imposed by the first President Bush, most new oil ...
Topics: air pollution, California, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

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