Ocean Dead Zone Off Oregon DissipatingOctober 31, 2006By Jeff Barnard, Associated PressGRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An ocean dead zone off Oregon that killed fish,crabs and sea worms in an area bigger than Rhode Island last summerlasted nearly three times longer than any of its predecessors beforedissipating with autumn's change in the weather, scientists said Monday.This [...]
U.N.: Number of Ocean 'Dead Zones' RiseOctober 19, 2006U.N.: Number of Ocean 'Dead Zones' RiseBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFiled at 1:50 p.m. ETWASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of oxygen-starved ''dead zones'' in theworld's seas and oceans has risen more than a third in the past twoyears because of fertilizer, sewage, animal waste and fossil-fuelburning, United Nations [...]
Further Rise in Number of Marine Dead Zones By Global Programme Action Global (GPA) for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Sources-2nd Intergovernmental Review19 October 2006 Further Rise in Number of Marine ‘Dead Zones’ Global Programme Action Global (GPA) for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Sources-2nd Intergovernmental Review Beijing/Nairobi, [...]
SeaSpan Newsletter October 2006SeaSpan--Marine Conservation News from the Pew Institute for OceanScienceOctober - A 2006, volume 12-17******************************************CONTENTS:*SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Pew Institute Seeks Director for Operations andStrategic Planning DevelopmentA) FEATURE1) U.N. to Consider Deep Sea Trawling BanB) NEWS AND VIEWS2) U.S. President Bush Calls for Halt of Bottom Trawling3) Popular Soup Imperils Sharks4) Mercury Contamination Moves Beyond [...]
Star Tribune (Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota) Ongoing Series: Water in MindAugust 2006http://www.startribune.com/10089/index.html
LUMCON Executive Director Testifies for the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans March 24, 2006 LUMCON Executive Director, Dr. Nancy N. Rabalais, presented testimony to a congressional field hearing on March 21, 2006, in Gretna, Louisiana. The hearing for the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans was chaired by Honorable Wayne Gilchrest, R-MD. The purpose [...]
Gulf dead zone triple forecasted sizeJuly 2005, Houma Daily Courier By KIMBERLY SOLET Senior Staff Writer, Houma Courier (Heather Gorman/The Courier) Zoom COCODRIE -- Local scientists on a cruise to the Gulf of Mexico last week discovered the dead zone is triple the size their federal colleagues predicted earlier this summer.Last [...]
It's the nitrogen, stupidAugust 04, 2005Times-Picayune, editorial page The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer is smaller than last year, but the credit goes to weather conditions, not human efforts to reduce nutrient pollution, so it's hardly cause for celebration. Marine scientist Nancy Rabalais, who measures the area every year, found that [...]
ANOTHER "DEAD ZONE" MAY LOOM OFF OREGON COAST August 04, 2005; Oregon State University News and Communication Services http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2005/Aug05/change.htmBy David Stauth, 541-737-0787 SOURCE: Jane Lubchenco, 541-737-5337Ronald Neilson, 541-750-7303 CORVALLIS - The Pacific Ocean off of Oregon has experienced a die-off of birds, declining fisheries and wildly fluctuating conditions in the past few months, and has [...]
Storm-stirred waters help shrink Gulf's low-oxygen dead zoneAugust 02, 2005; The Times-PicayuneBut it's still too big, marine scientists sayBy Mark Schleifstein Staff writer The dead zone, large patches of water along Louisiana's coast containing very low levels of oxygen, was smaller than last year's but, at 4,564 square miles, still more than double the goal [...]