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Nuclear Plant in Japan Leaks Toxic Water
TOKYO — Tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from a large underground storage pool at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, and thousands more gallons could seep out before the faulty pool can be emptied, the plant’...
Rising up to prepare for sea level rise
Situated among the trees and mountains along the scenic Hudson River, Kingston, New York seems far away from the salty blue waves of the Atlantic. Yet, just 100 miles inland from the World Trade Center, at the southern tip of Manhattan where New York ...
Why US Aquatic Life Isn’t Doing So Well These Days
According to an Environmental Protection Agency report released Tuesday, 55 percent of the 1.2 million miles of river and stream lengths in the US are in poor biological condition for aquatic life. In addition, only 21 percent of waterways were given a rating of "good," down from 27 percent in 2004.
Plastic Pollution: An Ocean Emergency
Even dolphin statues are not safe from the dangers of entanglement in ocean litter like this plastic 6-pack ring In an apparent guerilla stunt, a wildlife sculpture in downtown Vancouver has been "caught" in a giant plastic 6-pack ring. The sculpture...
Women of Fukushima
In the thirty-minute documentary film, Women of Fukushima, three unseen filmmakers tell the story of the ongoing nuclear resistance through six women. The women are of varied ages and tell different stories of what happened after “three-eleven” (as it’s referred to throughout the film) when a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a historic tsunami and nuclear meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear plant in the Fukushima prefecture (state). Ocean water had flooded rooms housing back-up generators in the plant, causing the coolants to fail, allowing reactors to overheat and melt down, releasing radiation. In October the journal, Science said sea life off the coast of Fukushima could remain radioactive...
Chile Becomes First Country in World to Protect All Seamounts from Devastating Bottom Trawling!
Seamounts are underwater mountain ranges that are home to an unbelievable array of sea creatures fed by the nutrient-rich water from the deep upwells.
BP Settlement Over Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Approved by Federal Judge
Company estimates it will pay $7.8bn to 100,000 people and business who lost money because of April 2010 well blowout A man lays oil absorbent boom in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, to collect oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Photograph: ...
Chefs Stand 500 Strong to Stop Seafood Fraud
What's on your plate? Source: wikimedia commons Spurred by Oceana’s seafood fraud report for New York City released last week, Sunday’s New York Times took a broader look at the widespread practice of food mislabeling. Oceana’s initial report, ...
Whalers Win Injunction Against Sea Shepherd
Japan's whalers have won an injunction in a United States court against Sea Shepherd, restraining the anti-whaling group from attacking their ships in the Southern Ocean. The decision by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was described as "some...
