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Lawsuit Seeks Plan to Save Florida's Corals

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 15 March 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to develop a recovery plan for two species of coral, elkhorn and staghorn, that live off the coast of Florida and in the Caribbean. Although these corals have been prote...

FBI Investigate Fracking Protestors, instead of Frackers

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 11 March 2012 in Environmental Heroes

In today’s Washington Post, it was revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been investigating peaceful climate and anti-fracking activists as a threat. In response to anonymous complaints Rising Tide North Texas, a part of the Rising Tide North America ...

BP could reach settlement for Gulf oil spill this week

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 20 February 2012 in Oil Spill

BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well that caused the United States’ worst oil spill, may reach a settlement for the disaster this week after a partner agreed on fines, an Oppenheimer & Co. analyst said. Mitsui & Co.’s MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC will pay $90 million to the U.S. and five ...

WB launches wildlife conservation project

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 13 February 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

World Bank launched a $36 million project on Sunday for conservation of endangered wildlife which has become extinct due to their illegal trade and unplanned development activities. Evden Eve NakliyatKayseri Evden Eve Nakliyatdizi izle “This will be a milestone in regional cooperation for wildlife ...

Emissions link to ocean acid levels

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 09 February 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Man-made carbon emissions since the industrial revolution have acidified the oceans far beyond natural levels, research suggests. Ocean acidity makes it harder for organisms such as molluscs and coral to construct the shells they need to survive. In some regions, acidity rose faster in t...

Environmental Education Tackled

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

This week more than 500 educators will convene in Ocean City for the largest state environmental education conference in the nation. They will stay in local hotels, eat and drink at local establishments, enjoy local nature and discuss the challenges, complexities and successes of environme...

Happy World Wetlands Day

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Feb. 2 is World Wetlands Day, a holiday that has promoted global appreciation and protection of wetlands for 41 years. It commemorates an international treaty signed in 1971, the Ramsar Convention, that aims to conserve swamps, marshes and bogs around the world, from Albania to Mexico to Zambia. &n...

Wolves no longer on protected list

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 30 January 2012 in Agriculture

It became official on Friday — gray wolves are no longer protected under the Endangered Species Act and returned to management of the Great Lakes states. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced Friday morning that gray wolf populations in the Great Lakes region have recovered an...

Coral Disease Hits the Reefs of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 07 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

In March 2010 an outbreak of a disease called acute Montipora White Syndrome (MWS) was discovered affecting coral reefs in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Follow-up surveys found that the disease left trails of rubble in its wake. It was estimated that over 100 colonies of rice coral (Montipora capitata) died du...

Thailand Bans Diving

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 07 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Thailand officials have now officially made it illegal for tourists to dive in its many marine parks. These parks have been available to the public and to tourists for years, but this ban is an active attempt by the government to try and limit access to these marine parks in an effort to save the co...

Gulf Drilling Expected To Surpass Pre-Oil Spill Levels

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 01 January 2012 in Oil Spill

By early next year, there will be more deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico than there were in the days leading up to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. On April 20, 2010, and explosion onboard the BP-leased Deepwater Hori...

Amazon Rainforest Loss in Brazil Drops

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 in Forestry

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to the lowest level on record between August 2010 and July 2011 according to preliminary data from Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE).Forest clearing during the period amounted to 6,238 square kilometers (2,408 square miles), down ...

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Alaska Fish

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 18 December 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

West Coast shellfish growers have learned to work around upwellings of corrosive waters and save the lives of their bivalve stocks. Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are changing the chemistry of the oceans, making it more acid. The CO2 surge stems mostly from coal and to a...

South Florida Reefs Coral Bleaching

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 18 December 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

An ashy pallor has spread across South Florida's coral reefs over the past few months, as stressed corals expelled the algae that gives them color. The worst case of coral bleaching since surveys began in 2005 struck reefs from the Florida Keys through Martin County, harming the base of the region'...

Animal Rights Folks Go to Bat for an Orca

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 01 December 2011 in Animals

SEATTLE (CN) - Animal-rights activists claim an orca is being held in an "inadequate tank" in the Miami Seaquarium. They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act. The Animal Legal Defense...

Heat wave Hits UN Climate Summit

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 in Climate Change

Despite non-record temperatures this year, the Earth's surface is continuing to get warmer, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In its annual briefing to the UN climate summit, the agency says 2011 is so far the 10th warmest year on record. But continued warming was masked by...

How Texas Wind Power Inspires Art

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 19 November 2011 in Wind

The stories of Texas’ wind farms are commonly told in terms of acres and megawatts. Artists Laura Zak and Kim Cypert, however, want to dig deeper into the cultural and social impacts of the state’s booming wind industry. Zak and Cypert are working on a performance art show incorporating insights fro...

U.S. postpones Keystone XL pipeline decision

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 11 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The U.S. government on Thursday delayed approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline until after the 2012 U.S. election, bowing to pressure from environmentalists and sparing President Barack Obama a damaging split with liberal voters he may need to win reelection. The decision to explore a n...

From Lowlands of the Congo to the Local Zoo

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 09 November 2011 in Animals

A 600-square-metre bachelor pad at Werribee Open Range Zoo is now home to three male western lowland gorillas: silverback Motaba and two of his sons, Yakini and Ganyeka. The trio were relocated from Melbourne Zoo to one of the largest gorilla homes in the world and, in the coming ...

World's last Vietnam Rhino killed for its horn

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 28 October 2011 in Agriculture

A rhinoceros killed for its horn last year in Vietnam is now considered to have been the last of its subspecies. Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund reported Monday (Oct. 25) that they and their partners have analyzed the DNA from 22 dung samples collected in Vietnam since April 2010, when the ...