Dr. Michael Mann on Dying Oceans & Intense Fires

Fossil Fuel Billionaires Kill Children

Incredible Infographic Shows How We Have Ruined Our Oceans — and Ourselves as a Result @alternet

Incredible Infographic Shows How We Have Ruined Our Oceans — and Ourselves as a Result @alternet:

"From plastic trash and discarded fishing gear to oil spills and pesticide runoff, human beings have treated the oceans as a vast dumping ground."

Harnessing Energy from Ocean Waves

Rising tide a national security threat

Our Rising Oceans: VICE on HBO Season 3 (Episode 1)

Greenland 2014: Follow the Water

When the Ocean's Carbon Cycle Goes Out of Balance...

Heading to the Beach? Know Which are the Cleanest and Which Are the Dirtiest

www.alternet.org/environment/check-water-quality-your-beach-swimming
"10% of U.S. beach waters fail to meet EPA’s safety standards, and some are downright filthy."

Five Things Huge Corporations Don't Want You To Know About Food - Truthloader

Fukishima: No End in Sight for Nuclear Meltdown | Interview with Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear

‘Our oceans are sick’

Report: World's Oceans on Brink of Collapse | Common Dreams

Report: World's Oceans on Brink of Collapse | Common Dreams

"Neglecting the health of the oceans could have devastating effects on the world's food supply, clean air, and climate stability, among other factors."

Ocean Acidification, Wildfires Are Taking Their Toll On The Pacific Northwest

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/09/3436080/national-climate-assessment-northwest/
"ocean waters in the bay have become so acidic that the company can’t grow oyster larvae off the coast of Washington anymore."

Great Barrier Reef Facing 'Unprecedented' Threat from Coal Expansion | Common Dreams

Great Barrier Reef Facing 'Unprecedented' Threat from Coal Expansion | Common Dreams

"The Great Barrier Reef is facing "unprecedented industrial development," and the damage wrought by seabed dredging as a result coal industry expansion has been significantly downplayed by the state government and mining industry, a conservation watchdog charged in a new report issued Wednesday."

Ocean Acidification Dissolving Shells of Key Marine Creature | Common Dreams

Ocean Acidification Dissolving Shells of Key Marine Creature | Common Dreams

"Scientists have documented how ocean acidification, sometimes referred to as climate change's "evil twin," is already taking a toll on an essential part of the marine food chain in an area off the U.S. northwest coast, and with runaway greenhouse gas emissions continuing, it looks like the problem is only set to worsen."

The U.S. Navy Just Announced The End Of Big Oil And No One Noticed

www.addictinginfo.org/2014/04/12/navy-ends-big-oil/
"Curiously, this doesn’t seem to be making much of a splash (no pun intended) on the evening news. Let’s repeat this: The United States Navy has figured out how to turn seawater into fuel and it will cost about the same as gasoline."

'Unprecedented' Ocean Temperatures on Track to Bring Death to Coral Ecosystems | Common Dreams

'Unprecedented' Ocean Temperatures on Track to Bring Death to Coral Ecosystems | Common Dreams

"An effect of this warming is an event known as coral bleaching, which often leads to the death of coral ecosystems."

Soon The Ocean Will Be Generating Power Near Seattle

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/24/3418381/puget-sound-ocean-tidal-power/
"At the end of last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave the go-ahead for a 10-year project testing our ability to generate electricity from the movement of the ocean.
The license permits Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County to install two underwater turbines in the Admiralty Inlet near Seattle, Washington."

Japanese Government Squelching Efforts To Measure Fukushima Meltdown

Japanese Government Squelching Efforts To Measure Fukushima Meltdown

"Tokyo - In the chaotic, fearful weeks after the Fukushima nuclear crisis began, in March 2011, researchers struggled to measure the radioactive fallout unleashed on the public. Aoyama Michio’s initial findings were more startling than most. As a senior scientist at the Japanese government’s Meteorological Research Institute, he said levels of radioactive cesium 137 in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean could be 10,000 times as high as contamination after Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear accident."