Giant fish sculpture rising from beach made from recycled plastic bottles
Last week’s Rio+20 event for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development an enormous beach installation was created uses discarded plastic bottles to remind people to reduce the amount of plastic bottles they use and to properly dispose of them when done. There are millions of tons of plastic in our oceans, most of which doesn’t biodegrade Read More
Get an underwater view of the ocean floor, even if you don’t live on a yellow submarine
Ever wanted to go play submariner and get a drive-by view of the ocean floor? Well thanks to the ever-evolving team at Google Earth you can get a new beneath the sea version of Google Earth with an up close and personal view of the sea floor. Scientists may have only mapped 10% of the Read More
Clownfish, staghorn coral among species on climate change “flagship” list
Clownfish and staghorn coral are among 10 species identified as those hardest hit from climate change due to increased CO2 emissions and ocean acidification by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Monday. The full report, Species and Climate Change, lists the Read More
Ocean Climate Forum launched on Oceans Day in Copenhagen
The Ocean Climate Forum is a new website debuting today tackling some of the issues linked to climate change in the ocean and ocean acidification. The Ocean Climate Forum website is proposing a litany of options for responding to these impacts as well as providing a special section for decision-makers. The new site also coincides Read More
Petition targets 83 coral species for U.S. endangered species list protection
The Center for Biological Diversity recently prepared and filed a scientific petition to have 83 coral species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petition, filed on October 20, 2009, looks to use the powers of the Endangered Species Act to protect these corals identified as most the most vulnerable in Read More
Sylvia Earle makes a TED wish to save the oceans
To say that Sylvia Earle is the American analogue of Jacque Cousteau would be an understatement. “Her Deepness” has been a marine scientist since about 1953 when she first learned to dive with SCUBA and she has since held the highest marine environment offices in the land. She was the chief scientist at NOAA from Read More
Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas from National Geographic
If you were one of the poor fools (myself included) that was suckered into watching Planet Earth and drooling repeatedly then you might want to take a look at the Illustrated Atlas to Oceans. Your nose will be glued to the pages as you’ll be able to browse through over 250 different maps, photographs and Read More
Poor Nemo won’t be able to find his home if someone doesnt add buffer to the oceans
We’re not sure what’s up with ocean and reef research lately but there seems to be quite a plethora of gloomy ecology papers being published, each decrying a new way that the ocean is down the creek withouth a paddle. The alram bell this time involves a study which looked at the capacity of juvenile Read More
Hurricane Gustav approaches Land, Oceans, members
As Hurricane Gustav makes landfall this morning we just wanted to tell everyone that has been afficted by the giant evacuating efforts that RB is thinking about you. If you happen to live in the path of the hurricane drop us a line in comments to let us know how it is going. You can Read More