Scientists sound red tide warning in New England
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The New England shellfish industry faces the threat of widespread red
tide outbreaks this spring and summer that could force hundreds of
miles of clam flats to be closed and lead to clam shortages.
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Researchers, fishermen tag monkfish; probe north/south mixing rates
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It takes a bit of skill to do surgery on a monkfish, especially at sea in the bitter cold.
But several researchers have mastered the art, making delicate
incisions in the tail of each fish to surgically implant bullet-shaped
data storage tags. They did it 150 times in 2009 aboard commercial
fishing vessels and, as the new year opened, were prepping to head out
to sea to do it again.
The teams soon fell into a rhythm. Industry partners handled the net,
providing researchers with fish as needed, and researchers did the tag
implantations.
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Experts Try to Clear Confusion about Extreme Weather and Climate Change
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Some proponents of climate science are on a public relations drive to
restore public confidence in the consensus that Earth is heating up,
after critics seized on blizzards in the American Northeast, claiming
they were evidence of global cooling.
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Lubchenco on snowstorms: ‘Weather is not climate’
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A top Obama administration scientist on Monday struck back at climate skeptics who claim that record snowstorms this winter have undercut evidence of global warming.
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Carbon Emissions Increasing Acidity of Ocean, Threatening Marine Life
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Industrial nations that attended the Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen this past December have until the end of this month to
submit their plans for reducing carbon emissions to the secretariat of
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC)-although the UNFCCC head, Yvo de Boer, stated in a webcast on
January 20 that the targets are not legally binding and the deadline is
flexible.
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