Illegal Dredging Causes Major Problems, Vietnam
Unchecked and illegal sand dredging have been attributed to severe landslide that washed away houses into the Dong Nai River, in the South Central Coastal region of Vietnam.
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, IPCC
Climate change is amplifying risks from drought, floods, storms and rising seas, threatening all countries, and nations should prepare, an international panel of climate scientists warned in a report issued Wednesday. The report pointed in particular at coastal megacities.
BP Oil Spill’s Sticky Remnants Wash Up Sporadically On Gulf Beaches
As they walk the sands of Orange Beach, Alabama, two scientists have no difficulty finding traces of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, in fact, the Auburn University researchers have a harder time making sure those traces don’t stick to their feet.
North Sea Exclusion Zone
A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total’s abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French firm warned it may take six months to halt the flow.
Large Marine Protected Areas Work for Dolphins
Ecologists in New Zealand have shown for the first time that Marine Protected Areas, long advocated as a way of protecting threatened marine mammals, actually work.
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup : 2011 Report
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup has become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Nearly nine million volunteers from 152 countries and locations have cleaned 145 million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean on just one day each year.
A decade of weather extremes
The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in- and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming.
Some Gulf Dolphins Severely Ill After Gulf Oil Spill
Bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, are showing signs of severe ill health, according to NOAA marine mammal biologists and their local, state, federal and other research partners.
Gulf Oil Spill Culprit for Heavy Toll on Coral
After months of laboratory work, scientists say they can definitively finger oil from BP’s blown-out well as the culprit for the slow death of a once brightly colored deep-sea coral community in the Gulf of Mexico that is now brown and dull.