Nitrate monitoring in real time along the Mississippi River basin helps determine the size of the annual dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico as well as how well efforts to reduce the dead zone are …
The Week in Water: Feb 18-24, 2012
The Week in Water brings you the latest news in blue living from around the web. The Atlantic has a short piece about the rise and fall of the American whaling industry in the nineteenth …
Oil Spill News: BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles
Environmental groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network along with local shrimp boat captains have filed a lawsuit and temporary restraining order …
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Key West Ocean's Day Rally Turns to BP Protest
June 8, 2010 was World Oceans Day. Declared officially by the United Nations last year, this day celebrates how our oceans: Generates most of the oxygen we breathe Helps feed us Regulates our …
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How Much Should BP Pay for the Gulf Oil Spill?
Money will not fix the problems facing the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the massive oil spill, but clean up is certainly expensive. As the magnitude of the oil spill is still being discovered and …
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Schwarzenegger Removes Support for Offshore Drilling in Wake of Gulf Spill
If you have followed California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, you will find he has flip flopped on the issue of offshore drilling several times. In 2008, Schwarzenegger refused to join the …
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