SPREP - Island countries seek ways to better access funds
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | 07 Mar 2012
Accessing funds for Climate Change adaptation is a key challenge for the Pacific as knowing where to seek information on the financing available and how to access the funds is not always as cut and dried as it seems.
 Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Economy | Small Island Developing States

Chevron: Fire at rig off Nigeria has stopped
Seattle Times | 07 Mar 2012
A natural gas fire that killed two people and destroyed a Chevron Corp. rig off the coast of Nigeria has stopped on its own, the company said Tuesday, ending an ocean inferno that burned for 46 days.
 Atlantic Ocean | Accidents and Spills

Faroe Islands sets another high mackerel quota
fishupdate.com | 07 Mar 2012
THE Faroe Islands appear to have again defied international opinion by setting itself another high mackerel quota for 2012.
 Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Governance

Oceans acidifying faster today than in past 300 million years
EurekAlert | 07 Mar 2012
(National Science Foundation) The oceans may be acidifying faster today than they did in the last 300 million years, according to scientists publishing a paper this week in the journal Science. "What we're doing today really stands out in the geologic record," says lead author Bärbel Hönisch, a paleoceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
 Acidification | Research

NIST releases Gulf of Mexico crude oil reference material
EurekAlert | 07 Mar 2012
National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a new certified reference material to support the federal government's Natural Resources Damage Assessment in the wake of the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
 Atlantic Ocean | Accidents and Spills

European Commissioner Outlines Commission's Key Targets for Oceans at Rio+20
biodiversity-l.iisd.org | 07 Mar 2012
During a Symposium on "A Blueprint for Oceans and Coasts" at the European Parliament, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki outlined the European Commission's objectives on Oceans and Coasts for Rio+20. She called in particular for green investments for a blue world and underscored the need to modernize the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.
 Economy | Fisheries | Marine Management | Policy