Tag: Preservation - Page 5
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Kristina Gjerde Explains How We Make Laws for Un-Owned Oceans (Interview)
Photo Credit: John@lastocean.com Penguins/Killer Whales of the Ross Sea Kristina Gjerde is an expert on regulating the high seas. Or rather, as much an expert as anyone can be on a topic that is constantly questioned and changing. Regulating the open
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TEEB Little Things by Lawrence Chen (Video)
This morning on the Spanish blog Resseny I came across this simple yet beautiful video called "Little Things" by Lawrence Chen. I like the way it gets the message across gracefully, using little resources to make the movie. It is poetic and makes you
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100-1000 And Restore Coastal Alabama Partnership's Inaugural Massive Oyster Reef Restoration
Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots
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Peter Tyack on Marine Mammals' Struggle with Human Noise Pollution
Photo by mikebaird via Flickr Creative Commons Peter Tyack is dedicated to studying how sound impacts marine mammals. As we know, whales and dolphins rely on vocalization to find food and one another. Many species are able to hear each other over vast
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Edith Widder on Mimicking the Glow of Deep Sea Fish to Discover New Species
Ever since her fascinating TED Talk during the Mission Blue Voyage, we've been in awe of scientist Edith Widder's work. She's come up with
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How Smart Science Makes or Breaks Marine Protected Areas
Marine protected areas, MPAs, are needed badly across the planet to help ocean ecosystems recover from decades of abuse. And as a global society, we're making progress in creating them.
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ePlant Gives Biologists a Cool Open-Source 3D View of Plant Life
The biology of plants is complex, with scientists needing to study different types of information at different levels simultaneously to get a complete picture. That is why a group of researchers have created ePlant, a brilliant
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How Sylvia Earle Dreams Up "Hope Spots" for Marine Life (Interview)
"Hope spots" is a term I learned as Sylvia Earle gave the TED talk that helped her earn the creation of Mission Blue, a movement to raise awareness about ocean conservation. The work she's done this last year
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Moss in a Pot! Small is Beautiful; Gardens by The Clorofilas (Photos)
Would you like a cup of moss? It's lush green, fluffy, and alive! Barcelona-based Jeanette Ramirez has been experimenting with moss for quite a while. She started by collecting moss around the city, reproducing it using
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Will Barcoding DNA Save Species on the Brink?
We've heard of barcoding trees to prevent deforestation, and tagging animals to track them for scientific purposes is an everyday practice. But what about barcoding the DNA of
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Caroline Fraser on Rewilding the World (Podcast)
"Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over." Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how
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Europe's North Sea Fisheries Throw Away Half Their Catch? Outrage Spreads
North Sea fishermen throw away almost a million dead and dying fish every year. Most are tossed back because they are too small or the wrong kind or will make the fishing boats over their quota.
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Permit for Coal Mine Expansion Revoked on Navajo Land
Two environmental groups have at least a temporary victory to celebrate after a federal judge voided a permit, granted in 2005, for the expansion of a coal mine on Navajo land in New Mexico.
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Thames Beats Out Amazon and Yellow River for Prize
The mighty Thames River, a mess in the 1950's, is back. It was declared biologically dead then and now it has won the esteemed International Thiess River Prize for good river management.
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Tiger Cam Captures the Destruction of a Forest (Video)
Sometimes it takes a heartbreaking video to fully grasp the scale to which some human activities are jeopardizing habitats of crucial species around the world. When the World Wildlife Fund installed a camera on the
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Chile's Sala y Gómez Island Turned Into Huge Marine Preserve
Marine preserves are one of the most significant ways a government can help keep its coasts and marine species safe from the negative impacts of overfishing, pollution and other problems. Still, only a minute fraction
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Ocean May Hold 750,000 Species Not Yet Discovered
Sure, you've heard there are plenty of fish in the sea -- but according to biologists there may be even more than you ever imagined, many more. After ten years mapping the ocean's
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Researchers Cut 600,000 Names From Global Plant List
Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list -- but
