Friday 11 May 2012
Tracking nutrient pollutant in ChesapeakeEurekAlert | 11 May 2012Too much of a good thing can kill you, the saying goes. Such is the case in the Chesapeake Bay, North America's largest estuary, where an overabundance of nutrients fosters the formation of an oxygen-starved "dead zone" every summer. Deb Jaisi, an assistant professor of plant and soil sciences at the University of Delaware, wants to seek out the sources of a key nutrient so excessive that it has become a pollutant in the Chesapeake Bay -- phosphorus.
Atlantic Ocean | Research | Water Pollution Four Pacific countries to benefit from Island Biodiversity projectSecretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | 11 May 2012A USD 1.7 million dollar project to conserve island biodiversity in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu was launched at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in Apia, Samoa. Under this three year initiative the island nations will carry out a range of activities with their local communities to produce and strengthen management actions to save threatened species and ecosystems; and to help ensure sustainable use of natural resources.
Pacific Ocean | Biodiversity | Small Island Developing States UNSG Report Highlights Potential of Marine Renewable Energies in SIDSInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) | 11 May 2012The report of the UN Secretary-General on oceans and the law of the sea underlines that oceans are a vast renewable resource with the potential to help SIDS, characterized by limited land and land-based natural resources, to produce billions of watts of electric power. It highlights the example of the Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation, which currently is designing the world's first two commercial ocean thermal energy conversion plants in the Bahamas.
Renewable Energy | Small Island Developing States | United Nations The Nation's Coastal Waters Receive a Fair RatingNOAA's National Ocean Service | 11 May 2012The fourth National Coastal Condition Report (NCCR IV), part of a series of reports that rate the overall condition of U.S. coastal waters and the Great Lakes, was released in April. The overall condition of our coastal waters was rated fair based on data from 2003 to 2006.
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