8/04/05

Antarctic Has Strong Ecosystem, Scientists Discover - Read Story

Microchip Saves Rare Cambodian Turtle - Read Story

Spiegel Grove Opens to Divers Wednesday - Read Story

Wal-Mart Experiments With Environmentally Friendly Store in Texas - Read Story

Research Lab Probes Life Under the Sea - Read Story

Canada Planes to Monitor Arctic For Ship Pollution - Read Story

Study Says Ethanol Not Worth The Energy - Read Story

Ice Shelf Collapse Reveals Undersea World Ecosystem Thrives Despite Near Freezing And Sunless Conditions - Read Story

Minnesota, Mississippi Students Win Solar Car Race - Read Story

Synthetic Fragrances Harmful to Marine Life, Study Says
Synthetic fragrances Commonly Added to Perfumes, Soaps, Shampoos, And Dozens of Other Personal Health Care Products Are Proving Harmful to The Marine Environment And Potentially to Humans as Well, According to Marine Scientists. - Read Story

Tech Divers Going to Great Depths - Read Story

Shark Week More 'Must-Sea' Than Usual - Read Story

Fake Shark Skin Could Make Navy Fleet Faster - Read Story

Wind Farms Could Meet Energy Needs - Read Story

Glacial Cover-Up Won't Stop Global Warming, But It Keeps Skiers Happy - Read Story

Scientists Raise Alarm About Ocean Health - Read Story

Sea birds Fly Pollution to The Arctic Bird Guano Makes For Hotspots of Toxins - Read Story

Officials Probe Young Pelican Deaths - Read Story

Bush Administration Asking Court to Block Dam Spills - Read Story

Humming Fish Solves Noisy Clash Turning Down Ear Sensitivity Could Help Humans Retain Their Hearing - Read Story

Pack Ice Melting Earlier, Imperiling Polar Bear, Panel Says Population Expected to Drop 30 Percent in 35 to 50 Years - Read Story

North Atlantic Ocean Temps Hit Record High - Read Story

Jellyfish Capture Prey With Crimson Bait Unusual Haul Casts Doubt on Theory That Fish Can't See Red - Read Story

Lawmakers Push Larger Ccean Sanctuaries Bills Would Expand Permanent Ban on Oil And Gas Drilling to Waters Off Sonoma Coast
SAN FRANCISCO - Fearing The Prospect of Oil and Gas Drilling Off The Northern California Coast, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer And Rep. Lynn Woolsey Appeared Tuesday in San Francisco With Marine Scientists And Conservationists to Promote Legislation That Would Expand The Boundaries of Two National Marine Sanctuaries. - Read Story

Pollution Experts Head to Grounded Ship - Read Story

The Science of Shark Attacks
What provokes Them, And What You Can Do to Avoid Them - Read Story

Carbon Emissions Threaten Sea Life - Read Story

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7/12/05

Alewives Run Lures Spectators and Hungry Birds - Read Story

Global Warming May Alter Atlantic Currents, Study Says - Read Story

Coal Rush? Power Project Signals Boom, Debate - Read Story

New Study Weighs Promises, Pitfalls of Hydrogen Cars - Read Story

Great White Shark Dies in Captivity - Read Story

How Warming is Changing the Wild Kingdom - Read Story

Pelicans Return to N.D.'s Chase Lake
Bilolgists Puzzled by Influx of Large Birds - Read Story

S.C. Officials Investigate Bird Deaths
Warn Beachgoers to Stay Away From Sick Sea Birds - Read Story

Shark Facts: Attack Stats, Record Swims, More - Read Story

Mucus-Producing Sea Creatures Key to Underwater Food Chain
By analyzing the spooky abandoned "houses" of mucus-weaving sea creatures, Monterey scientists have shed new light on two lingering mysteries -- how creatures in the deep sea get food, and how the ocean absorbs carbon molecules that might otherwise contribute to global warming. Despite its name, the "giant larvacean" is a sea creature that is only about 2 inches long. But it spins gossamer-like nets of mucus -- which in photos resemble glistening parachutes and balloons -- up to a few feet wide, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) at Moss Landing explain in the journal Science. - Read Story

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2/11/05

Muddy Microbes Retrieved From The Abyss: Submarine Mission Finds Life In The Deepest Trench On Earth - Read Story

UM Rosenstiel School Opens New Lab on Highborne Cay, Bahamas - Read Story

Kilauea's Lava Spilling Into Ocean At New Points - Read Story

Lawmakers Float Plan for Underwater Logging - Read Story

Study Uncovers New Threatened Ecological Hotspots - Read Story

China Presses Three Gorges Project To Heed Rules - Read Story

Fish Returns to Aceh, But Disease Risk Still High - Read Story

Groups Eye Davidson Seamount For Different Reasons - Read Story

Pilfering Crab Has Insect's Nose - Read Story

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2/4/05

U.S. Navy Surveying Waters Near Tsunami Epicenter
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- The U.S. Navy is surveying the Malacca Strait and coastal waters off Indonesia for signs that last month's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami altered the sea bed under the world's busiest shipping lane. The USNS John McDonnell, a 208-ft specialist vessel, left Singapore on January 18 and was expected to complete its work by the middle of February in waters off Indonesia's Aceh province near the epicenter of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami, U.S. Navy officials said. - Read Story

Pataki, Schwarzenegger Urge Congress Not To Weaken States' Environmental Powers
WASHINGTON — New York Gov. George Pataki and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are pressing Congress to protect key parts of the Clean Air Act as lawmakers and the Bush administration seek to change the law. The two moderate Republicans on Tuesday urged senators considering updating the act not to reduce the powers states have now to enforce environmental regulations or create tougher state regulations. The governors, who both place great emphasis on their environmental initiatives, wrote to members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which will hold a hearing Wednesday to consider changes to the Clean Air Act. - Read Story

San Francisco: 17-Cent Fee On Bags OKd By Environmental Panel
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment unanimously approved a proposal Tuesday evening asking the city to charge grocery shoppers 17 cents for every paper or plastic bag they take home. Blumenfeld said the fee was determined by dividing the total cost in cleanup, disposal and lost recycling revenue because of plastic shopping bags -- about $8.7 million -- by the number of bags dispersed in the city by large grocery stores each year, which is about 50 million. - Read Story

Alaskan Urges Gas Research Funding - Read Story

Study Encourages Everglades Land Purchases - Read Story

Dredger Pays for Violations By Building Up Artificial Reef - Read Story

Antarctica, Warming, Looks Ever More Vulnerable - Read Story

Countdown to Global Catastrophe - Read Story

Asian Tsunami Inflicts Multi-Million Dollar Damage on Indonesia's Environment
KOBE/NAIROBI — Beyond the horrific loss of human life, the earthquake and resulting tsunami of 26 December 2004 had enormous impacts on Indonesia's coastal environment, causing damage and loss to natural habitats and important ecosystem functions. - Read Story

WWF-US President To Step Down - Read Story

Marine Experts Lay Course of Action for Saving Rare Sea Turtle - Read Story

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1/26/05

Antarctic Iceberg Appears Grounded - Read Story

California Beach Inundated With Big, Dead Squid - Read Story

UK Scientists Find Natural Human Mosquito Repellent - Read Story

Global Warming May Have Caused Extinction – Study - Read Story

US Forests Cost-Effective against Global Warming, Study Concludes - Read Story

Cuttlefish Wimps 'Dress As Girls' - Read Story

Arctic Rivers Discharge More Freshwater Into Ocean, Reflecting Changes To Hydrologic Cycle - Read Story

Common Skate a Symptom of UK Marine Crisis - Read Story

Midway's Albatross Population Stable - Read Story

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1/21/05

Tracking Reveals Albatross Habits - Read Story

Apple's Popular Products Pile Up in Landfills, Protesters Say - Read Story

Giant Ice Slabs Set For Collision - Read Story

Effort Under Way to Weaken US Endangered Species Law - Read Story

Swordfish Heat Their Eyes For The Hunt - Read Story

Nave To Break Eggs, Move Adult Albatrosses
MANA, Kaua'i — Federal officials this year once again plan to break the eggs of Laysan albatrosses nesting near the runway at the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands, and to move adult birds to another location. The action is designed to prevent crashes between the large sea birds and aircraft, and to prod adult albatrosses to select different nesting places. Officials try to prevent eggs from hatching at the site, because albatrosses return to their hatching sites as adults to nest. - Read Story

Weak El Nino to Affect Weather for Next 3 Months - Read Story

Pollution-Eating Bacteria Gives Up Genetic Secrets - Read Story

China Population to Officially Hit 1.3 Billion - Read Story

World Population Grew By 76 Million People in 2004: 3 Million Added in the Industrial World and 73 Million in the Developing World - Read Story

Scientists Unravel How Geckos Keep Their Sticky Feet Clean - Read Story

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1/14/05

Island Extinction Woes Stark Warning for Land Dwellers
PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa - The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents. According to the World Conservation Union, a total of 784 species have become extinct since AD 1500, when accurate historical and scientific records began. - Read Story

Quake May Have Made Earth - Read Story

Farm Uses Waste Cooking Oil To Heat Its Greenhouse - Read Story

US Scientists Say Quake Movement Shifted Islands
LOS ANGELES - The massive earthquake that devastated parts of Asia permanently moved the tectonic plates beneath the Indian Ocean as much as 98 feet (30 meters), slightly shifting islands near Sumatra an unknown distance, US scientists said on Tuesday. - Read Story

Palo Alto, Calif., To Buy 'Green' Power Created by Gas Of Decomposing Garbage - Read Story

Earth's Permafrost Starts To Squelch - Read Story

Saudi Government Approves Kyoto Climate Protocol - Read Story

The 'Hole' Pulls Back, But 'Red Days' And Danger Linger On - Read Story

White House Creates Cabinet-Level Ocean Policy Panel - Read Story

Winds, Ice Motion Root Cause Of Decline In Sea Ice, Not Warmer Temperatures - Read Story

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