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Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest - Thursday, November 19, 2009

Miami would become an island city – and Miami Beach an underwater reef – if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea levels by century’s end hold true. Clean Air-Cool Planet presented new climate change models to Senate staffers Nov. 19. The projections are predicated on a one-meter rise in sea level caused by accelerated melting of the ice caps and Greenland glaciers.

Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests - Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows, mangroves and salt marshes have a much greater capacity to trap carbon than land carbon sinks such as forests, according to a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization believes ocean ecosystems are essential to combating global warming.

Tuna: A Love Story - The Book - Thursday, October 01, 2009

A MUST READ BOOK: Tuna has captured the imagination of fisherman since ancient Phoenicia. Today, it is still beloved by Americans who consume more than one billion pounds of canned tuna per year. Richard Ellis has written an exhaustive study of the ways of the tuna, man's attempt to catch them, and what that is doing to the oceans (and one of our most important food sources.) Ellis fears not only for the impact of rising mercury levels on tuna, the state of the seas and human health, but also the fate of tuna, which he has come to truly admire and love. Read this book to learn how to prevent tuna-one of the world's biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals, from becoming the next extinct species.

Using Sustainable Fish was Integral From the Start - Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Red Fish, Blue Fish began with the intention of being a sustainable business, focusing on selling only sustainable seafood and creating as little waste as possible. The Canadian fish-and-chips stand is made from an old cargo container and topped with plants and soil on the roof.

Tuna Town in Japan Sees Falloff - Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Fishermen here call it “black gold,” referring to the dark red flesh of the Pacific bluefin tuna that is so prized in this sashimi-loving nation that just one of these sleek fish, which can weigh a half-ton, can earn tens of thousands of dollars.

EU Split Over Protecting Bluefin Tuna - Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Mediterranean countries have rejected a call by the European Union's executive and northern EU states to ban fishing for Atlantic bluefin tuna until the over-exploited population has recovered. Atlantic bluefin is prized by sushi lovers and commands huge prices in Asia, particularly in Japan where a single fish can fetch up to $100,000.

New report card rates cruise lines' environmental record - Sunday, September 20, 2009

Cruise passengers can now judge cruise lines on their environmental record with the release Wednesday of the first report card on the industry from Friends of the Earth.....

Scientists Weigh Impact of Ocean Acid Levels on Shellfish - Sunday, September 20, 2009

The danger from increasing levels of acid in the ocean, which could devastate California's shellfish industry, is under investigation by Bodega Bay scientists. It is painstaking work that requires the team to wade through knee-deep mud at Tomales Bay to collect native Olympic oysters and then raise their young in salt-water tanks under conditions that mimic climate change.

The Great North Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch - Friday, September 11, 2009

It is a problem of massive plastic proportions -- a giant floating debris field, composed mostly of bits and pieces of plastic, in the northwest Pacific Ocean, about a thousand miles off the coast of California. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it covers a vast area of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of miles of open ocean.