Wednesday 16 May 2012
Oyster industry given funding boostNew Zealand Herald | 16 May 2012Kiwi oyster farmers are hoping a boost in funding from the Government will help the industry fight back from a two-year fight with a herpes virus. The newly formed Ministry for Primary Industries has awarded $407,000 for the Oyster Industry Modernisation Project, co-ordinated jointly between Aquaculture New Zealand and New Zealand Oyster Industry Association.
Pacific Ocean | Aquaculture | Economy Arctic seabirds adapt to climate changeScienceDaily.com | 16 May 2012The planet is warming up, especially at the poles. How do organisms react to this rise in temperatures? Biologists have now shown that little auks, the most common seabirds in the Arctic, are adapting their fishing behavior to warming surface waters in the Greenland Sea. So far, their reproductive and survival rates have not been affected. However, further warming could threaten the species.
Arctic Ocean | Global Warming | Seabirds Sulfur finding may hold key to Gaia theory of Earth as living organismScienceDaily.com | 16 May 2012Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to unlock heretofore hidden interactions between ocean organisms, atmosphere, and land -- interactions that might provide evidence supporting this famous theory.
Climate Change | Research The Water CycleWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 16 May 2012Water supports life, but it can also change form, wear down mountains, build clouds, and warm the poles. Regardless of the amount, location, or form, water is in constant motion. The water cycle includes places where water is stored (reservoirs) for short and long periods and processes that move water (flows) and other substance, shaping the face of the planet and making life on Earth possible.
Research CMS and Ramsar Renew PartnershipConvention on Migratory Species | 16 May 2012The Secretariats of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands have renewed their interest and commitment to work together. Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General of Ramsar and Bert Lenten, Officer in Charge of CMS, signed a new Memorandum of Cooperation, during the opening ceremony of the 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA).
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