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JAKARTA — Two videos of manta rays and other fish swimming through swaths of garbage off the resort island of Bali earlier this year have highlighted once again the plastic…
Two recent videos from a diving site in Bali known for its manta rays have garnered global attention for highlighting the dire state of plastic pollution in Indonesia’s waters.
JBF is pleased to announce the implementation of new sustainable seafood standards, first at the Beard House, and then eventually across all James Beard Foundation events.
The James Beard Foundation is incorporating our ratings into their sustainable seafood standards! They believe chefs and restaurants drive trends around seafood and therefore have a responsibility to promote the best sustainable seafood options available… we agree and are glad they are using us as a resource
The verdict is in. But will our oceanic friends ever get the same legal protections as land animals?
Whether or not fish feel pain has been debated for years. But the balance of evidence says yes. Now the question is, what do we do about it?
It's seriously limiting marine plant productivity.
One new study bears the latest grim news, showing that climate change could cause the collapse of marine food webs by restricting the energy that flows from producers to herbivores to carnivores.
According to a new survey of residents living near two major national parks in Panama, jaguars deserve increased protection. Nature and wildlife are considered national …
The number one cause of jaguar deaths in Panama is retaliation for livestock predation.
JAKARTA — Malaysia’s last remaining female Sumatran rhino appears to have overcome the worst of a serious health condition, less than two weeks after it was announced that her condition…
The worst appears to be over for Iman, Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino, after she suffered massive bleeding from a ruptured tumor in her uterus earlier this month.
Colossal funding in manufacturing plants by fossil fuel companies will increase plastic production by 40%, risking permanent pollution of the earth
Plastic production just got a huge injection of funding in the US. “We are already producing more disposable plastic than we can deal with, more in the last decade than in the entire twentieth century, and millions of tonnes of it are ending up in our oceans.”
“The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity”
Start small, but start now:-
- Bring your own plastic bags/tupperware to the supermarket
- Bring your own water bottle and ask for refills
- Bring your own straw and keep on refusing straws as you order
- Don’t buy things you don’t need. It’s hard to escape plastic packaging but start by not creating demand for the unnecessary.
Experts say the Alaska operation could pollute salmon-rich waterways, putting at risk the raptors—and people—that depend on the fish.
Many worry that the mine could leach heavy metals and sulfuric acid—the same corrosive liquid found in car batteries—into this salmon-rich watershed, profoundly affecting the eagles, bears, and people who depend on it.
A high pressure system continues to push rain away from California.
Melting Arctic sea ice caps are altering the planet’s temperature dynamics, changing the global distribution of rain.
Despite legal protection, North Atlantic right whales keep getting struck accidentally by fishing boats and entangled in gear.
For decades, whaling ships targeted right whales. Now that they’re protected, they are still victims of human activity, and it may be too late to save them. The WWF says that their population shows no sign of recovery.
Building solar and wind farms has started to become a cheaper proposition than running aging coal and nuclear generators in parts of the U.S., according to financial adviser Lazard Ltd.
Nice
Highlight:
Two years ago, “what was interesting to us was the lifetime cost of renewables on an energy basis reached parity with conventional resources in a bunch of geographies in the U.S.,” said Jonathan Mir, head of the North American power group at Lazard. “Now, what we are seeing is that renewable technologies on a fully loaded basis are beating” existing coal and nuclear plants in some regions.
The report [is] by Lazard, whose estimates are widely used in the power sector as benchmarks…
P.s.
slartibartfaast: Meanwhile, it’s killing millions of birds each year...
Don’t know if this is a real user or just a bot meant to stir up controversy. Either way, let’s look at some actual data from the US Fish and Wildlife Service:
Keep reading
Read InsideClimate News’ look at how fossil fuel donors shaped the anti-climate agenda of the House Science Committee.
Join us to fight back, and stand up for science: climatetruth.org
What is coral bleaching and how can you help?
This is Big Momma, one of the largest corals in the world – 41 feet in circumference! It’s located in the Valley of the Giants in National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.
By working together, we can protect corals like Big Momma from a warming ocean.
Coral in National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa before and after a bleaching event in 2014-2015. (Photo: XL Catlin Seaview Survey)
When we burn fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas for electricity to power our homes and for gas for our cars, we produce carbon dioxide and release it into the atmosphere. This carbon dioxide builds up and acts like a heat-trapping blanket, warming Earth. As Earth’s atmosphere warms, so does the ocean.
Unfortunately, warmer ocean temperatures stress corals. Corals depend on colorful photosynthetic algae for food and oxygen – that’s what makes coral reefs in places like Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary so vibrant.
But when the water becomes too warm, stressed corals evict their algae partners. Without the algae, corals become bleached and can die.
Bleached coral (right) in National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. (Photo: Wendy Cover/NOAA)
Reef ecosystems around the world depend on healthy corals. Without them, the entire reef ecosystem suffers, and can collapse entirely. This directly affects the people and cultures that depend on coral reefs for food, protection, and their livelihoods.
Bleaching can transform a reef over the course of just a few months. In recent years scientists have witnessed widespread bleaching events:
We all have a role to play in protecting coral reefs. In California, for example, entire communities are signing up for green energy through their local utility companies. Community choices like this can help us reduce carbon dioxide emissions that thicken the heat-trapping blanket and warm the ocean.
By working together, we can slow ocean warming and help protect vibrant places like coral reefs for the future.
How will you work with your community to protect coral reefs from bleaching?
Thank you to XL Catlin Seaview Survey for time-lapse video of National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.
Reblogging in honor of Corals Week!
More good news from this nightmare in which we are living…
Trump Poised to Shrink Two National Monuments
Trump is expected to eliminate nearly 85 percent of Bear Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, cutting more than 1 million acres from its current boundaries. He’s also set to halve the nearly 1.9-million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (E&E News PM, Nov. 30).
The move is being praised by Republicans who have long argued that the Antiquities Act—the 1906 law that allows presidents to set aside public land—is being used unlawfully to lock up tracts of federal land. On the other side, Democratic allies have vowed to take any monument reductions to court.
Scientists who have studied the region, especially Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, say redrawing its boundaries could be detrimental to scientific research and discoveries.
“The monument has been demonstrably a very, very important scientific laboratory to learning and understanding on many realms,” said Mike Scott, a retired U.S. Geological Survey researcher.
Scott and his colleagues have spent time in Grand Staircase-Escalante studying how different management policies and activities on rangelands—there are many different kinds across the ecologically diverse monument—affect the health of those ecosystems. Rangeland activities include anything from how grazing affects soil quality to the health of different soil types.
As climate change brings warmer, drier conditions, understanding how to keep soils and grassland ecosystems healthy in arid landscapes is crucial to avoid desertification, Scott said. Grand Staircase-Escalante has been “a really critical living laboratory,” he said.
Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life…in the Arctic. Well there was a time – and not too long ago – when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far)
Blue Planet 2 producers say final episode lays bare shocking damage humanity is wreaking in the seas, from climate change to plastic pollution to noise
Technology could be used to wipe out malaria carrying mosquitos or other pests but UN experts say fears over possible military uses and unintended consequences strengthen case for a ban
They’re investing in Gene Drives.
(For a really good intro to gene drives and the opportunities and threats they pose: x) As the headline states, it can be used as an “extinction technology”. (It basically quickly forces genes to spread through a population.)
The article pretty much nails it when they point out that everyone is nervous about a branch of the military investing in this. Cause really, anyone looking into this should have the greatest amount of oversight possible. This technology can be used for a lot of good, but also a lot of bad. And most importantly, even the best intentions could have disastrous effects with this technology.
DARPA - the gov’t’s fringe science division - basically argues that a big part of the rationale is to be ready for others who might use it in a negative way. Which does seem important, to be fair. I guess the question becomes, ‘who watches the watchmen?’
Highlights:
A US military agency is investing $100m in genetic extinction technologies that could wipe out malarial mosquitoes, invasive rodents or other species…
The use of genetic extinction technologies in bioweapons is the stuff of nightmares, but known research is focused entirely on pest control and eradication…
Some UN experts, though, worry about unintended consequences. One told the Guardian: “You may be able to remove viruses or the entire mosquito population, but that may also have downstream ecological effects on species that depend on them.”
“My main worry,” he added, “is that we do something irreversible to the environment, despite our good intentions, before we fully appreciate the way that this technology will work.”…
“Darpa is not and should not be the only funder of gene-editing research but it is critical for the Department of Defense to defend its personnel and preserve military readiness,” he said.
Darpa believes that a steep fall in the costs of gene-editing toolkits has created a greater opportunity for hostile or rogue actors to experiment with the technology.
“This convergence of low cost and high availability means that applications for gene editing – both positive and negative – could arise from people or states operating outside of the traditional scientific community and international norms,” the official said. “It is incumbent on Darpa to perform this research and develop technologies that can protect against accidental and intentional misuse.”
P.s. Related story on how Britain wants to genetically alter rats to help reduce their overall numbers. (x)
