Surfing from / March, 2016
Japan Kills 200 Pregnant Minke Whales
Flouting an international ruling, Japan resumed minke whaling for ‘scientific purposes’ during breeding season.
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Capt. Sam’s Spit road gets court go-ahead; conservation groups plan to appeal, SC
A wall to protect a road to a controversial development on Capt. Sam’s Spit can be built, a state Administrative Law Court judge has ruled, despite an earlier state Supreme Court ruling that stopped the road along a piece of the disappearing natural coast.
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Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries
The basic claim of the paper, released by a European science journal, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, is that by burning fossil fuels at a prodigious pace and pouring heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, humanity is about to provoke an abrupt climate shift.
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Archaeologists Reveal the Vasco da Gama Shipwreck, Video
Take a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to locate and excavate the earliest known shipwreck from Europe’s Golden Age of Exploration – the Vasco da Gama’s ships lost at sea in 1503 off the coast of present-day Oman.
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Ecuador creates Galápagos marine sanctuary to protect sharks
Ecuador has created a new marine sanctuary in the Galápagos Islands that will offer protection to the world’s greatest concentration of sharks. Some 15,000 square miles (38,000 sq km) of the waters around Darwin and Wolf – the most northern islands – will be made off limits to all fishing.
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Ocean acidification takes a toll on California’s coastline at nighttime
Conducted along California’s rocky coastline, a new study, based on the most-extensive set of measurements ever made in tide pools, suggests that ocean acidification will increasingly put many marine organisms at risk by exacerbating normal changes in ocean chemistry that occur overnight.
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Breaking: Coastal Commission brings down the hammer on Cemex, CA
The California Coastal Commission informed Cemex that it must shut down its sand mining operation in Marina, or face formal cease and desist and restoration order proceedings as well as administrative penalties.
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Climate change redistributes global water resources
Rising temperatures worldwide are changing not only weather systems, but — just as importantly — the distribution of water around the globe, according to a study published in the journal, Scientific Reports.
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Addressing Climate Change On Several Fronts In The Caribbean, Video
Climate change is already affecting the Caribbean. But there is concern that a gap still exists between what the region’s leaders are saying about the issue and what residents believe.
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