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Category Archives: oceans
Degradable plastic bags – the solution?
For those of you interested in economics, you might like to know that ‘one use’ plastic bags are called a ‘market failure’. This is due to the fact that their pricing does not account for external factors such as the … Continue reading
Posted in economics, environment, oceans, waste
Tagged biodegradable plastic bags, economics, market failure, one use plastic bags, www.csrplus.co.uk
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A total ban on single-use bags in California?
Jeremy Irons has become the latest celebrity to joint the anti single-use bag brigade with this film (see below). It’s certainly worth a watch; showing the real threat a simple everyday object holds towards the environment, migrating via wind, land … Continue reading
Posted in environment, litter, oceans
Tagged ban plastic bags, great pacific garbage patch, reuse, single use plastic bags
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Sustainability certification fails to protect environment: report
So much for guilt-free seafood. An international program run by the Marine Stewardship Council purports to certify only sustainably harvested fish, but is “failing” to protect the environment and needs radical reform, says a highly critical report released Wednesday. Many … Continue reading
How can we have fish tomorrow? Ask the past
Dismissed initially as a good storyteller but nothing more, environmental historian Poul Holm has mapped the history of marine animals in such detail that it is having profound impacts on our current understanding of the oceans. http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/natural_world/
Posted in oceans, overfishing
Tagged marine animals, oceans, overfishing, the ecologist, www.csrplus.co.uk
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Tuna ban ‘justified’ by science
Banning trade in Atlantic Bluefin tuna is justified by the extent of their decline, an analysis by scientists advising fisheries regulators suggests. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas’ (ICCAT) advisers said stocks are probably less than 15% … Continue reading
Posted in conservation, food, oceans, overfishing
Tagged banning trade, Bluefin tuna, conservation, fish stocks, ICCAT, over-fishing, www.csrplus.co.uk
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Last chance to change our behaviour
There is growing awareness of the damage we are doing to the planet and the natural resources on which we depend, says David Hillyard. Yet, he argues in this week’s BBC Green Room, we still carry on along the same … Continue reading
Posted in Deforestation, biodiversity, business, climate change, communications, conservation, consumerism, economics, education, environment, future, global warming, happiness, health, leadership, lifestyle, oceans, overfishing, quality of life, social responsibility, water shortage
Tagged attitude and habits, behavioural change, climate change, ecosystems and business, environmental destruction, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8242410.stm, human life, quality of life, species loss, www.csrplus.co.uk
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Huge oil slick from Russian ship heads for British coastline
Coastguards in Britain and Ireland were on red alert today after a Russian aircraft carrier spilt an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil off the southern Irish coast. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5753603.ece
Message in a bottle – Adventurer’s bottle boat to sail into plastic sea
David de Rothschild, a British millionaire adventurer and founder of Adventure Ecology is to sail a 60ft raft made from empty mineral water bottles to the centre of the Earth’s plastic sea. He will set out from San Francisco in April … Continue reading
Posted in oceans, pollution, waste
Tagged adventure ecology, David de Rothschild, Kon-Tiki expedition, ocean pollution
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George W Bush turns green to save marine treasures
President Bush is to create the world’s largest marine protection area in the Pacific Ocean. The creation of the protection zones will be seen by many as an attempt by President Bush to secure an environmental legacy. His Administration has … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, oceans
Tagged environmental legacy, Mariana Trench, oceans, President Bush
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Melting ice may slow global warming
Collapsing antarctic ice sheets, which have become potent symbols of global warming, may actually turn out to help in the battle against climate change and soaring carbon emissions. Professor Rob Raiswell, a geologist at the University of Leeds, says that … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctic survey, climate change, ice sheets, plankton
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Faroe islanders told to stop eating ‘toxic’ whales
Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic – as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves. The remote Atlantic islands, situated between Scotland … Continue reading
Tuna decision a ‘disgrace’ says WWF
WWF has branded the commission tasked with preventing a collapse of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery a “disgrace” after it voted today to allow unsustainable fishing to continue. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), meeting in … Continue reading
Oceans are still less well-known than the surface of the moon
More than 90 percent of the oceans’ top predators — large sharks, tunas, swordfish, cod and others — are now gone. A thousand points of light are being shone into the dark ocean depths as scientists from 82 countries work … Continue reading