News clips for Wednesday, November 25, 2009

• Southern Ocean protected area to shield marine region more diverse than Galapagos- sciencecentric.com
• Rising sea levels: A tale of two cities- BBC World Service- Comparison of Rotterdam, The Netherlands to Maputo, Mozambique
• Sea level rise could cost port cities $28 trillion- CNN
• Wildlife concern over oil tankers- BBC News- UK
• New Endangered Species Listings Wait as Obama Admin Charts New Course- New York Times
• United States and India Embark on a Green Partnership- Environmental News Service- President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today reaffirmed the global strategic relationship between the United States and India. Recognizing that energy security, food security and climate change are linked, and that eliminating poverty and ensuring sustainable development and a clean energy future are global objectives, the two leaders agreed to forge a "Green Partnership" to address these issues.
• Azeri Fishermen Lament Vanished Shrimps - Environmental News Service- The fishermen perched on the beached boats on the Azerbaijan coast watched Faiq Balayev as he threw out his net, drew it in and trudged back to the shore. They need not have bothered, since he had once again failed to catch any shrimps. From Pirallahi, oil platforms are visible, and ecologists blame oil industry pollution for the shrimp population collapse.
• Rocket Science Leads to New Whale Discovery- World-Wire- Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal – or if they hear it at all. The same type of large industrial sized x-ray scanners that NASA uses to detect flaws in the space shuttle's behemoth solid fuel rockets is now allowing scientists to peek inside the giant head of a whale.