Emily Tripp Senior Writer An economist and two marine scientists have suggested that we could save whales by creating tradable harvest quotas. Every year, anti-whaling nonprofit organizations spend nearly $25 million on efforts to end commercial whaling. Unfortunately, every year, commercial whaling still continues to grow. The number of whales harvested annually has doubled since [...]
It is widely accepted that the oceans became oxygen-rich to the point they are today about 600 million years ago, in the Late Eriacaran Period. Biochemists at the University of California, Riverside have recently found evidence that the ocean went back to being anxic, or oxygen-poor, around 499 million years ago, soon after the first [...]
Expedition to learn about the size of the “garbage patch” and the threats it poses to marine life and the gyre’s biological environment back.
On August 2, 2009 researchers left on the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX) on board the research vessel (R/V) New Horizon.
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