Posted May 15, 2012 by Taryn Kiekow in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Cook Inlet beluga whales – they’re beautiful. Melodious. Highly intelligent. And critically endangered. There are only 284 of them left on the planet. Yet the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently issued a permit that authorizes Apache Alaska Corporation to...continued→
Posted May 14, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
It is easy to feel depressed about the state of the Rio+20 preparations after the recent two weeks of “informal informal” negotiations at the United Nations in New York. The governments managed to reach agreement on less than two dozen...continued→
Posted May 11, 2012 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Whales and dolphins will be harmed more than 14 million times in Southern California and Hawaii waters by proposed Navy training and testing activitiesreleased this week. According to the Navy's draft environmental impact statement for its Hawaii and Southern California activities,...continued→
Posted May 10, 2012 by David Newman in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) rescinded vital protections today for two severely depleted deepwater fish species in the South Atlantic, speckled hind and warsaw grouper. These fish are “extremely vulnerable to overfishing,” according to NMFS, as they grow...continued→
Posted May 8, 2012 by Taryn Kiekow in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Endangered fin whales may once again be spared from Iceland’s harpoons. According to media reports, Iceland will suspend its fin whale hunt in 2012. Fin whales are the world’s second largest animal and are listed as an endangered species. This...continued→
Posted May 7, 2012 by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
As kids start to trade in their backpacks for beach towels, they’re not the only ones with their eyes toward the ocean. In a backdoor attack on our ocean health, some Republicans in Congress are trying to attach amendments that...continued→
Posted May 7, 2012 by David Newman in Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Reviving the World's Oceans
Whole Foods recently became the first major North American retailer to stop selling unsustainable, or red-listed, seafood. The red listing, as determined by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute, indicates that the fish species is being overfished...continued→
Posted May 3, 2012 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
News in the world of whales this week (or close to it). Pacific gray whales may be in the middle of a baby boom. Volunteer spotters have counted a significant number of calves passing California on their journey from...continued→
Posted April 27, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Reviving the World's Oceans, Solving Global Warming
Just recently Rio+20 has started to get some attention in wider circles in Washington, DC with the focus on whether President Obama will attend the Summit. It began with Todd Stern, the US chief climate change negotiator, indicating on a press...continued→
Posted April 25, 2012 by Nick Magrisso in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
Springfield, Illinois – thousands of miles away from any ocean coast, and void of any charismatic ocean predators, like sharks, Illinois is moving swiftly to pass legislation that would help save our oceans by protecting declining shark populations around the...continued→
