The Last Days of the Ocean
News: We're Pushing Our Seas to the Brink. Can They be Saved? A Mother Jones special report.
The Fate of the Ocean
Assaulted by pollution, overfishing, climate change, trash, and noise, our oceans are approaching a point of no return. The health of the world they feed and protect won't be far behind.
P L U S :
Whales hit the beaches
Polar bears face extinction
The Catch
If America's fisheries are regulated, how can they be overfished? Because the regulators and the fishermen are one and the same.
P L U S :
Video: Mike Robbins talks fishery reform on Free Speech TV
The ocean's top enemies
A field guide to failing fish
Net Losses
How a football tycoon took George H. W. Bush's oil company and used it to declare war on the fish that built America.
Navigating the Catch of the Day
Overfishing...mercury...but they taste so good! How to eat fish without fear
Online Exlusives
M O R E S T O R I E S
Mother Jones Radio's Angie Coiro interviews Julia Whitty, author of The Fate of the Ocean, on Link TV.
Filmmaker and conservationist Hardy Jones on reasons for hope in a sea of troubles.
Should this threatened fish be an essential part of your healthy diet?
Two "ocean champions" say the problems of the ocean are fundamentally political--and so are the solutions.
A crustacean's climb from pauper's fare to modern-day delicacy
The editor of Sport Fishing magazine says many recreational fishers are conservationists at heart.
Thought whale hunting was a thing of the past? Think again.
A science journalist evaluates media coverage of the oceans beat.
A Bay Area activist raises awareness about contaminated seafood.
The EPA is supposed to protect our rivers and oceans. However, ...
How to distinguish groups doing good from ones that just sound good.
T H E I S S U E S E X P L A I N E D
- Not Enough Fish in the Sea: The causes and consequences of overfishing
- How to Catch a Fish: Modern methods are more efficient than ever--and more destructive.
- Catch as Catch Can: Millions of marine animals are killed "incidentally" every year.
- Aquaculture: Fish farming offers a solution to overfishing; but is the environmental cost too high?
- Who's In Charge Here? Government and the ocean
- Marine Pollution: How the ocean became a toxic waste dump.
- Development: Are we loving our coasts to death?
- Coral Reefs: There's still time to save some reefs, but just barely.
L E A R N M O R E
A C T N O W
- Sign up for Mother Jones' Ocean Voyager, an exciting online journey to the world's ocean hotspots.
- Resources for getting involved
Illustration By: Yuko Shimizu
Comments:
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Measuring the Interaction Between the Healths of Coral Reef Ecosystems and Coastal Communities
Hatcher Research Associates Corp., 34a Fenwood Road, Halifax, NS B3N 1G8 Canada
Cape Breton University, Bras d'Or Institute P.O. Box 5300, Sydney, NS B1P 6L2 Canada
AGU.org: Coral reefs are the world's most celebrated indicators of ocean health. While the global trajectory of coral reef health is now well documented, and the accompanying loss of economic benefits increasingly demonstrated, the consequences in terms of human health have been largely ignored. Reefs provide a wide array of benefits to humans, contributing most directly to the health of subsistence fishing communities located on adjacent coasts and islands. Interactions between human and marine ecosystem health are complex, bidirectional and nonlinear. Quantitative data on human health outcomes are rarely available in formats or contexts that allow unequivocal linkages to ocean health. We draw on a broad range of data and experience to identify key links in the ecological chain from the coral polyp to the human society. Our conclusions are that humans are components of coral reef ecosystems, few studies of reef health incorporate human health, few data are available to quantify the health services reefs provide to people, and human health security is essential to the preservation of coral reef ecosystems.
NOAA.gov: Coral bleaching is not well understood by scientists. Many different hypotheses exist as to the cause behind coral bleaching:
REF:http://www.coral.noaa.gov/cleo/coral_bleaching.shtml
LL: Please consider this: If scientists/we don't understand how coral polyps communicate with each other, so that coral spawning occurs throughout an entire reef, at the exact same moment in time, at night, without emitting a single sound and with no change in lighting, flawlessly, for millions of years...
... If the coral reef polyps can (and they do) communicate this event, would it be surprising that global industries dumping millions of tons of deadly chemicals into Oceans around the world...for decades... might interfere with such a delicate and miraculous balance.
... How sadly ironic... we do not understand how it works... but we do understand that the toxins industry dumps... are toxins... dumped to improve their bottom line... dumped into the only living Oceans in the entire universe... and there are legal pathways in place to dump more, if they pay a fee to the government.
REF: Link to article (AGU.org)
Your comments are welcome,
Larry (at)
OpenDoorWorld.com
Posted by:LarryJune 26, 2007 9:50:24 PMRespond ^
Measuring the Interaction Between the Healths of Coral Reef Ecosystems and Coastal Communities
Hatcher Research Associates Corp., 34a Fenwood Road, Halifax, NS B3N 1G8 Canada, Cape Breton University, Bras d'Or Institute P.O. Box 5300, Sydney, NS B1P 6L2 Canada
AGU.org: Coral reefs are the world's most celebrated indicators of ocean health. While the global trajectory of coral reef health is now well documented, and the accompanying loss of economic benefits increasingly demonstrated, the consequences in terms of human health have been largely ignored. Reefs provide a wide array of benefits to humans, contributing most directly to the health of subsistence fishing communities located on adjacent coasts and islands. Interactions between human and marine ecosystem health are complex, bidirectional and nonlinear. Quantitative data on human health outcomes are rarely available in formats or contexts that allow unequivocal linkages to ocean health. We draw on a broad range of data and experience to identify key links in the ecological chain from the coral polyp to the human society. Our conclusions are that humans are components of coral reef ecosystems, few studies of reef health incorporate human health, few data are available to quantify the health services reefs provide to people, and human health security is essential to the preservation of coral reef ecosystems.
NOAA.gov: Coral bleaching is not well understood by scientists. Many different hypotheses exist as to the cause behind coral bleaching:
REF:http://www.coral.noaa.gov/cleo/coral_bleaching.shtml
LL: Please consider this: If scientists/we don't understand how the coral reef polyps can communicate with each other... so that coral spawning occurs throughout an entire reef, at the exact same moment in time, at night, without emitting a single sound and with no change in lighting, flawlessly, for millions of years...
... If the coral reef polyps can (and they do) communicate this event, would it not be surprising that industries dumping millions of tons of toxic chemicals into Oceans around the world... for decades... just might interfere with such a delicate and miraculous balance.
... How sadly ironic... we do not understand how it works... but we do understand that the toxins industry dumps... are toxins... dumped to improve their bottom line... dumped into the only living Oceans in the entire universe... and there are legal pathways in place to dump more, if they pay a fee to the government.
REF: Link to article (AGU.org)
Please share this "conversation" in order to stop a common generalization... "dilution is the solution"... that has enabled millions of the tons of toxic chemicals to be dumped into the "The Silent World".
As we awaken to the collapse of our oceans, we see the consequences of giving a "green light" to industry to dump millions of tons of known deadly toxins into the only known living Oceans in the entire universe.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, must be looking down at the Oceans, with their dying Coral Reefs, with tears in his eyes.
Now that the damage has been done... and the profits have been made... by industry... and spent... do you think it is fair to ask the citizens to pick up the tab for industry's cleanup of PCB's and PBDE's, when they already got the massive profits... and dumped their damaged goods into the only living Oceans in the entire universe.
citation célèbre [ famous quote ]: It is difficult for most people to understand something, while their pay check depends on their not understanding it ...
Your comments are welcome,
Larry (at)
http://OpenDoorWorld.com
Posted by:OpenDoorWorld.comJuly 3, 2007 11:53:13 PMRespond ^
Have you seen this. Herein lies the real cause. We must stop allowing the powers to divert us via talking about effects.
Despite dates mentioned I first read of it in our papers in the late 60s & how scientists feared the practice way back then.
Cheers
http://www.guba.com/watch/2000 915475?category_id=525&duratio; n_step=0&fil;%20lter_tiny=0&pp;=40&sb;=5&set;=5&sf;=0&size;_step=0 &o;=17&s;%20sample=1181546641:75 f761e7edefe279f6989f32ce499fed4be2bc87
Posted by:JudithJuly 14, 2007 2:09:07 AMRespond ^
There is SOOO much talk, so many articles and photos and films and books about the destruction of the planet by those with deep pockets and political muscle.. is it possible that SOMETHING is being done to stop all this horror? I feel totally overwhelmed by the ongoing greed, ignorance, and indifference of those who have the power and resources to turn things around. I so often wish I could win a large lottery, so I could at least do one small thing to save an inch or two of land or sea.. is there no good news to report?
Posted by:corneliaAugust 14, 2007 4:44:37 AMRespond ^
His Holiness, Dalai Lama XIV , Tenzin Gyatso (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. As such, he is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, without any qualifiers.
The fifth of sixteen children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and most important political ruler, while Tibet faced occupation by the forces of the People's Republic of China.[1]
After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso fled to India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan government in exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.[2]
A charismatic figure and noted public speaker, Tenzin Gyatso is the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[3]
Contents [hide]
1 Early life and background
2 Life as the Dalai Lama
2.1 Exile in India
2.2 Teaching activity
2.3 Foreign relations
3 Social and political stances
3.1 Tibetan independence movement
3.2 Social stances
3.3 Criticism
4 International influence
5 Retirement
6 Writings of the Dalai Lama
7 Awards and honors given to the Dalai Lama
7.1 Nobel Peace Prize
8 Films about the Dalai Lama
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Posted by:jesusAugust 29, 2007 11:37:48 PMRespond ^
I met a LLama once and it didnt even talk..let alone knoe anything about politics or religion...not sure what all the fuss is about myself....
Posted by:JohnNovember 4, 2007 9:01:29 PMRespond ^