Category: Environment
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Fishy labels for seafood
Living on earth covers this important topic in marine conservation. Excerpts from the online transcript are below. Listen to the program here. Also see more of our coverage of this topic here and read about a recent publication that found evidence of mislabeled fish with the MSC label here. Today we launch a new series: Go…
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We are approaching climate change denial season!
from Brian McFadden
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Ignoramus Nation
All of us here at SeaMonster are scientists of one stripe or another. Science is largely responsible for revealing the world of wonders we celebrate, illuminating the weighty issues we debate, heck even for designing the surfboards we ride. But science — which is nothing more or less than applied, rationale thinking — is under…
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Ocean Sour: The new millenium’s acid rain
Remember acid rain? In the 1970s, observations of dying lakes and great swaths of browning northern forest successfully spurred action to clean up emissions from power plants that were primarily responsible. Now CO2 from human fossil fuel combustion is dissolving into the ocean on a global scale, making them more acidic. A new paper synthesizes…
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Mangrove loss on the Diane Rehm show
Yesterday, the popular NPR program The Diane Rehm Show covered mangrove loss by interviewing biologist Kennedy Warne about his new book Let them eat shrimp: the tragic disappearance of the rainforests of the sea. Listen here
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Bluefin boycott
Join 25,000 other people that have pledged to stop eating endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna. We are hunting this incredible fish to extinction, regional management is not working, the industry is corrupt and market forces are against us. So why not just reduce demand? Go here to take the pledge and to see who else has…
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Save a shark, vote for WhySharksMatter
WhySharksMatter, AKA U Miami PhD student David Shiffman, is competing for a scholarship to help support his research on the ecological importance of sharks to coral reefs. David is still a student but is one of the most prolific and talented bloggers in the ocean blogs universe. He is one of the trio of super-talented bloggers…
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Good day for giant manta rays
Giant manta rays hit the ocean headlines today with the news that they are to gain their first ever global protection from the many problems they face. Giant mantas (Manta birostris) are to be added to the Convention on Migratory Species (or CMS), an intergovernmental treaty set up to help get nations working together to…
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Layer Cake
When the glacier’s face calves, we get a new look at the inside. To give you an idea of scale here, the cliff face is several hundred feet tall. Twenty-foot ice javelins? Yes please! (I was almost a quarter mile away when I took this photograph, and you’d be an idiot to get much closer.)…
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Beluga whales 1, Sarah Palin 0
From the Center for Biological Diversity – my new favorite NGO: There’s huge news today out of Alaska: A federal judge just rejected the state’s attempts to deny Endangered Species Act protection for Cook Inlet beluga whales. Today’s ruling is a major victory in our decade-long battle to protect the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale,…