Monday, October 12, 2009

Change is in the seas

ECO-NEWS, WEEK FOUR

The U.S. Navy plans to conduct sonar training near a Florida calving ground for endangered North Atlantic right whales. (Miami Herald)

The USDA announced plans to fight the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" by reducing agricultural nutrient runoff in the Midwest [good luck]. (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

UN climate talks in Bangkok don't seem to have yielded much. (Grist/Agence France-Presse)

A Native American community was forced to leave their eroding home in coastal Louisiana. (Lafayette Advertiser)

Are overfished sea urchins recovering in Downeast Maine? (Bangor News)

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