I've written off and on about research revealing that
ocean resources today are a pale shadow of the extraordinary abundance of just a few generations ago, and I touch on this theme again in a Science Times feature this week on new maps of human impacts on the sea.
Not exact matches
Travel Market Report
today released the second edition of its
Ocean Cruise Report Card for Travel Agents, the third in a series of supplier policy report cards designed as a useful
resource for travel professionals.
The information section is also interesting with biographies of anthropologists; information on the
oceans, solar system, and world populations; a
resource room where teachers can find lesson plans and links to other useful information on the Web; a tutorial for using the Internet; and a visit to Our World
Today through Web cams.
Backing off on the humpback hunt
today is a small part of a larger effort to push to the limit on using
ocean resources.
Sarah Chasis, Director for
Oceans at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, said, «
Today's important action by Governor Cuomo sends a message that New York is unwilling to accept the risks that come with offshore drilling.
«She maintains a balanced approach to managing
ocean resources to ensure that Hawaii can enjoy and benefit from healthy
oceans both
today and in the future.»
«Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats of azolla - a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much of the Arctic
Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago - decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist
today as «vast hydrocarbon
resources» trapped in layers of rock below the polar ice cap.»