A large quantity of nitrogen compounds emitted into the atmosphere by humans through the burning of fossil fuels and the use of nitrogen fertilizers enters the oceans and may lead to the removal of some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, concluded a team of international scientists led by Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Oceanography [...]

Have you noticed anyone doing rooftop camping, rappelling from downtown buildings or commuting to work via canoe? It’s all part of an inner-city campaign to announce The Big Wild.
Protecting our heritage
This new social movement founded by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) wants to advance large-scale wilderness protection in [...]

Peruvian authorities move quickly to contain 1,500 gallons of fuel that spilled from a U.S. tanker in Pisco.
The Peruvian city of Pisco is in the country’s Ica Region. The oil spill happened some 38 kilometers from the region’s Paracas National Reserve, home to a rich concentration of sea and bird life.
Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri reports.

This came from Reuters and if you ask me, I say that the researcher from the University of Exeter in Britain who said this is full of Sh%$#. Oh yes!!! This research was a waste of money. Let’s keep polluting the air so that the forest stay alive. Ya right. The way I see it [...]

OSLO (Reuters) – Global warming could gradually starve parts of the tropical oceans of oxygen, damaging fisheries and coastal economies, a study showed on Thursday.
Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures, according to the scientists [...]

An estimated 150,000 baby turtles are hatched on the shores of the Rishikulya beach in India’s eastern Orissa state.
The stretch of beach is a favourite nesting ground for this particular breed of turtle – the Olive Ridley.
However, hatching is often fraught with danger. Many turtles die from suffocation under the sand or from being eaten [...]

On Friday, April 18 the federal and British Columbia governments announced that they will proceed with a recovery operation of the wreckage that continues to threaten the Robson Bight ecological reserve. The return of the orcas to the area in June makes this salvage operation time sensitive.
Numerous concerned citizens contacted federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister [...]

From Science Blog:
Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers.
Kerry Emanuel, the lead author of the new study, wrote a paper in 2005 reporting an [...]