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  • Jan 20: Japan fights bluefin tuna export ban

    Japan fights bluefin tuna export ban.   TOKYO - Seafood-loving Japan - having faced years of international pressure to stop whaling - finds itself with a potentially bigger fight over a highly prized type of tuna that conservation groups say i...

  • Ocean Energy Could Reach up to 200 Gigawatts of Power Generation Capacity by 2025

    Ocean Energy Could Reach up to 200 Gigawatts of Power Generation Capacity by 2025 BOULDER, Colo. - (Business Wire) The world’s oceans represent a vast untapped resource for renewable energy generation, and a host of technology companies are emergin...

  • New 'strawberry crab" species

    Source: jconline.com TAIPEI, Taiwan : A marine biologist says he has discovered a new crab species off the coast of southern Taiwan that looks like a strawberry with small white bumps on its red shell.National Taiwan Ocean University professor Ho Ping-...

  • Dolphins: 'non-human' persons?

    Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons Source: Times Online Author: Jonathan Leake Dolphins have been declared the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans, with scientists suggesting they are so bright that t...

  • New study: Substantial irreversible damage to ocean ecosystems

    By 2050, ocean acidity could increase by 150 percent. This increase is 100 times faster than any change in acidity experienced in the marine environment over the last 20 million years. Author: Nanet Poulsen Source: Cop15.dk December 14,2009 - The sec...

  • Crunch Time in Copenhagen: Will Week 2 Make a Difference?

      Crunch Time in Copenhagen: Will Week 2 Make a Difference? December 12, 2009 - The first week of the annual U.N. climate-change summit is usually a relatively sedate affair. Sub-ministerial-level diplomats (or sherpas, so called because they do mo...

  • Glacial Rebound: 10,000-Year Study of Strata Compaction and Sea-Level Rise on English Coast

    Glacial Rebound: 10,000-Year Study of Strata Compaction and Sea-Level Rise on English Coast ScienceDaily December 13, 2009 -  Environmental scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Durham University have employed a novel combination of geolog...

  • COP15:Gordon Brown: Go for a 30 percent cut

    Gordon Brown: Go for a 30 percent cut. British Prime Minister urges EU to lay the cards on the table. Author: Rie Jerichow Photo: Scanpix/AFP Copenhagen, December 8, 2009: Although Swedish Minister for Environment Andreas Carlgren, who currently hol...

  • September 2: Ban Ki-moon calls for urgent action on climate change

    Svalbard (Polar Ice Rim), 2 September 2009 - Standing on rapidly melting polar ice, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the world for urgent measures to be taken to combat climate change to protect the planet for future generations. "I feel ...

  • August 28: Scientists Find "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch"

    BioMarine, August 28, 2009 SEAPLEX researchers spotted a large net tangled with plastic in the "garbage patch."Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "...

  • August 6: Shipwrecks Wrecking Coral Reefs?

    BioMarine — August 6, 2009 — For the first time, researchers have definitively shown that shipwrecks and other man-made structures increase the potential for large invasions of unwanted species into coral reefs, even comparatively pristine ones. The...

  • August 6: Shedding Light On Freak Wave Hot Spots

    ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2009) — Stories of ships mysteriously sent to watery graves by sudden, giant waves have long puzzled scientists and sailors. New research by San Francisco State professor Tim Janssen suggests that changes in water depth and curre...

  • August 25: Saving Seafood: Can We Grow Fish in Giant Robotic Cages?

    DISCOVER, by Boonsri Dickinson, August 25, 2009 We recently covered a study in which every single fish tested from U.S. streams was tainted with mercury. But that may be the least of our worries: The demand for fish will increase by 40 percent in th...

  • August 18: New findings show increased ocean acidification in Alaska waters

    The pteropod (also known as a sea butterfly or swimming sea snail) may be one of the first marine organisms affected by ocean acidification. Pteropods make up nearly half of the pink salmon diet. This particular pteropod is the Limacina helicina hel...

  • August 18: Methane seeps from Arctic sea bed

    By Judith Burns,  Published August 18, 2009 Science and environment reporter Scientists say they have evidence that the powerful greenhouse gas methane is escaping from the Arctic sea bed. Resea...

  • August 13: NOAA Report Finds Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Among the Healthiest Coral Reefs in Gulf of Mexico

    BioMarine, August 13, 2009 Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary is among the healthiest coral reef ecosystems in the tropical Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to a new NOAA report. The report, A Biogeographic Characterization of F...

  • August 11: SLAC Researchers Reveal the Dance of Water

    Menlo Park, Calif.—August 11, 2009 enlarge This artist's depiction shows two distinct structures of water: in the foreground, tetrahedral low-density water and in the background, distorted high-density water. (Credit: Image courtesy of Hiro...

  • August 7: Glaciers a canary in the coal mine of global warming

    By Shelby Lin Erdman (CNN) -- August 7, 2009 U.S. scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington State and Alaska reported this week that a major meltdown is under way. A 50-year government study found that the world's glaciers are melting a...

  • August 6, 2009: Venomous Sea Snakes Play Heads Or Tails With Their Predators

    ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2009) — In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published August 5 in Marine Ecology. The discovery, m...

  • July 26, 2009: Underwater Detection Of Harmful Algae, Toxins

    Scientists Report First Remote, Underwater Detection Of Harmful Algae, Toxins — BioMarine — July 26, 2009 Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have successful...