News clips- Friday, October 30, 2009

• Colorado State University Professor Contributes to International Climate Change Report- Colorado State University (press release)
• White House panel on oceans visits Great Lakes- Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
• Supreme Court of Hawai`i Reviewing the Turtle Bay Resort ExpansionShare- Surfline.com Surf News
• Seal of disapproval- Honolulu Weekly- Op/Ed by Walter Ritte, activist, about NOAA’s removal of KP2 from Molokai
• Spill response 'world class', oil company says- WA today- about the Timor Sea oil spill off Australia- also have a photo of the spill
• Ghost Fishers Removed: Ocean-going robot cleans seafloor-Monterey County Herald
• Hong Kong's ghostly seas warn of looming tragedy- AFP
• Activists Say Fish Deal Hostage To WTO Deadlock- Planet Ark
• South Africa, Mozambique Create Africa's Largest Marine Protected Area- Environment News Service
• International Trade Bans Proposed for Bluefin Tuna, Polar Bears- Environment News Service
• Congress Approves $3.1M for National Wildlife Refuges in South Jersey- Cape May County Herald
• Student Voices: From King Ferry to Kona corals- Hawaii 24/7 – Interview with Courtney Couch, PhD candidate at Cornell University, about her coral reef research in Hawaii

News clips for Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Op/Eds

• Hitting the target and missing the point- ScienceAlert – Australia- interesting Op/Ed about the difficulty in adhering to conservation targets
• Enforcing environmental laws- BusinessWorld Online- interesting editorial about environmental laws in the Phillippines

Climate Change

• Global Warming Caused Radical North Sea Change - Wired News- Wired
• North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than In Previous 500 Years, Study Finds- ScienceDaily.com

Corals

• Coral Triangle under threat- Daily Express

Hawaii

• Aquarium To Grow Coral From NW Islands- KITV.com- Colony To Anchor New Exhibit Of Marine Monument
• Lead poisoning threatens a vulnerable albatross population- UC Santa Cruz

Marine Debris

• Dining out in an ocean of plastic: How foraging albatrosses put plastic on the menu- sciencecentric.com

Policy

• NOAA and Four States Form South Atlantic Ocean Alliance- Environment News Service
• Marine bill 'should be stronger'- BBC News- Environmental groups have called on all parties in the Scottish Parliament to strengthen the Marine Bill, which will be debated in Holyrood later.
• Annual Congressional appropriation deadline to be pushed to December 18- Examiner.com

Endangered Species

• Remotely Operated Vehicles and Satellite Tags Aid Turtle Studies- PhysOrg.com- This marks the first time an ROV has been used to follow turtles in the wild to learn about their behavior and how they interact with their habitat.

Fisheries

• Science supports bluefin tuna trade ban- SeafoodSource.com

Offshore Drilling

• Oil firm delays new bid to plug Australia leak: officials- AFP

News Clips October 23rd-28th, 2009

National Ocean Policy

• US reps worry ocean policy will block development – Seattle Times
• Lawmakers fear hurdles to offshore drilling- Chron

Marine Spatial Planning

• Casting a net far into the future- BBC News – UK- discusses how Marine Spatial Planning can help sustain fisheries

Marine Reserves

• UK's new marine reserves are threatened by legal loophole- Times Online
• SFU study shows no-take reserves rebuild fish populations over time- Georgia Straight
• MLPA task force delays vote on no-take marine reserves off Southern California- Los Angeles Times

Climate Change

• GOP Senators Object to Including Global Warming in NEPA Regs- New York Times - New York,NY,USA
• Biodiversity can mitigate climate change- Business Mirror- Singapore

Corals

• Nuclear imaging used to study coral killer- United Press International
• Deep freeze 'arks' to save coral reefs- guardian.co.uk
• Marine Lab Team Seeks To Understand Coral Bleaching - Science Daily

Endangered Species

• NOAA Contract Boat Kills Blue Whale Off Fort Bragg- Bay Area Indymedia
• New bird species documented in Dongsha Marine National Park- eTaiwan News
• Polar Bears vs. Development in Alaska- New York Times
• NOAA Seeks Comments on Proposed Authorization for Navy Sonar Operations off the Marianas Islands- Media Newswire (press release)

Marine Debris

• Plastic, plastic everywhere, nor any bite to eat: Pacific albatrosses feast on garbage patch offerings- Scientific American - NYC,New York,USA

Various Issues

• Catch them in the wild- Yale Daily News- about marine aquaculture, fisheries, and mentions Obama’s ocean policy task force.
• United States Scientists Visit Cuba to Discuss Overfishing, Coral Reefs, Ocean Energy and Ocean Issues- Reuters