by Guest Contributor | Sep 16, 2015 | Animal Welfare, Ecology, Law & Policy, Oceans
By Rhea Suh Marine mammals just won protection from harmful naval sonar. It’s great news — but there’s more work to do. Ed.Note: Rhea Suh is president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Prior to joining NRDC one year ago, Rhea served as the...
by John Cronin | May 17, 2015 | EarthDesk Sunday, Ecology, Oceans
I spent the last hour transfixed by deep sea footage at the YouTube channel of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ship Okeanos Explorer. It is worth a leisurely visit. The first video presented below is from an expedition exploring Puerto...
by Guest Contributor | Mar 24, 2015 | Climate Change, Ecology, Law & Policy, Water
A sweeping ocean conveyor system that ushers warm tropical waters into the North Atlantic appears to have partly recovered from a near-collapse around the time that the Beatles were breaking up.
by John Cronin | Feb 20, 2015 | Ecology, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
Overnight, the fireball of the West Virginia oil train derailment alongside the Kanawha River gave fresh credence to year-old demands by Hudson River environmentalists for greater controls over the “virtual pipeline” of crude oil traveling by freight rail...
by John Cronin | Jan 19, 2015 | Ecology, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Human Sustainability, Pollution, Poverty
James Gustave Speth: If there is a model it is the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. It had a dream. The dream of modern American environmentalism was founded on the dream of the American civil rights movement. You would not know it today. In his April 16, 1963...
by John Cronin | Sep 18, 2014 | Ecology, General, International, Pollution, Sustainability, Water
Despite years of warnings from marine scientists, the Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, may be the first of 26 subspecies of sturgeon worldwide to face extinction. Damming, pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction are the causes. According to the Chinese...