EPA Proposes Standards to Protect Floridas Waters: Action would decrease amount of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution By Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov, 202-564-7873, 202-564-435501/15/2010 Nutrient pollution can damage drinking water sources; increase exposure to harmful algal blooms, which are made of toxic microbes that can cause damage to the nervous system or even death; and form byproducts [...]

Copenhagen: Look to the Sea? By David BielloDecember 10, 2009, Scientific AmericanThe oceans control climate change. Not only do the world's waters absorb the bulk of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, they also absorb the bulk of the extra carbon dioxide. And that means one thing: a more acid ocean.  [...]

Theory for dead zone off Oregon Coast By Keely ChalmersDecember 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, kwg.com, news channel, Portland, OregonThe Oregon State University scientists said they now have evidence that the dead zones were directly related to a warming climate. The dead zone started appearing off the Oregon coast in 2002. It’s an area of [...]

Aggresive federal efforts could test bay group By David A. Fahrenthold December 18, 2009 , The Washington Post ANNAPOLIS --At the podium, a political science professor was ripping into the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the well-funded granddaddy of bay area environmentalism. The Chesapeake's biggest fight in a generation is starting, he was saying. And the foundation [...]

OSU scientists believe global warming contributing to growing dead zone off Oregon coast By Shelby BatesonDecember 20, 2:53 PM, Green Technology ExaminerSouth Africa Oceanic Dead Zones http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/6822/SouthAfrica.A2004338.0835.250m.jpg There is a dead zone off the Oregon coastline which has been growing since 2002.  A group of scientists at Oregon State  University (OSU), working in conjunction with [...]

A voice for Chesapeake Bay has a grim message By Rex Springston December 28, 2009 , Richmond Times-Dispatch People have a basic human right to clean water, according to Ernst. "I think you can really make a case that this is the civil-rights issue of our generation," said Ernst, an associate professor of political science [...]

Can we save the Gulf of Mexico? By Dr. Larry McKinney December 24, 2009 at midnight , Corpus Christi Caller-Times The president charged the heads of executive departments and federal agencies to develop a national policy recommendation to ensure the protection, maintenance and restoration of oceans, our coasts and the Great Lakes.    The task [...]

Farmers fear fallout from film, activists By PHILIP BRASHER and DAN PILLER, pbrasher@dmreg.com January 6, 2010, DES MOINES REGISTERActivists and artists are drawing attention to agricultural practices they say harm animals and the environment. Farmers worry that the notoriety will lead to new regulations and costs.    Two examples this week illustrated the conflict:    [...]

Bay 'dead zone' still bad in '09, But scientists have new knowledge of how it works By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer11/27/09, The Capital, Annapolis, MDCourtesy photo  Unusual weather conditions - dry weather in Pennsylvania and New York and a wet summer in Maryland and Virginia - threw off scientists' predictions, but gave them new understanding [...]

Watersheds Included in Iniative By Greg Hilburn, The News Star, Monroe, LouisianaDecember 3, 2009Three Louisiana watersheds, including two in northeastern Louisiana, are included in an $80 million, 12-state initiative to improve water quality in the Mississippi River Basin by managing fertilizer runoff from agricultural land.    Bayou Macon and Boeuf River watersheds in northeastern Louisiana, [...]