Friday Roundup Apr 1: No foolin’!
Friday Roundup April 1: Our stories — how cities and islands may disappear by the end of the century, making water from fog, a 65-year-old “mother” osprey, salmon spawn for […]
Category Archives: Oceans
Whalehunting: The latest Japanese caper
Japan has just returned from a 3-month whale-hunting “expedition” in the Antarctic, killing 333 minke whales – some 230 were females, 90% of them pregnant – as part of its […]
Friday Roundup: Good News! Mar 26
Welcome Spring 2016: This week we are only reporting good news– eagles, ravens, monarch butterflies, orcas, the Chesapeake Bay, Amazon funding, World Happiness Report. Whoopee! World Happiness Report: Just released, […]
Friday Roundup: Feb 26
WELCOME TO FRIDAY ROUNDUP on Green News Update. In our inaugural news roundup, we’re offering a batch of “ups and downs” – sea level rising, Detroit’s Shinola winning hearts and minds, bicycle […]
Gift Books 2015: Photography There’s More!
UPDATE: We’ve added four great photography books to the 2015 Holiday wish list we posted recently. They all represent –in one way or another – the world that once was […]
Gift Books for 2015: Coming Next Week
Our 2015 Holiday Round-up of books — to crave, see, read, give and keep –is coming next week in four installments! Photography — from phytoplankton to Hubble Telescope images Questing […]
Great Barrier Reef: Attenborough’s New Quest
David Attenborough’s new 3-part BBC One series on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is set to debut in 2016. It will provide an estimated one billion people worldwide with the […]
Calif. Sea Lion Pups: SOS Distress Call
Starving sea lion pups are washing up on California beaches, abandoned by their moms who seem to be going farther out to sea, to cooler waters, to find fish. Over […]
Oceans: Plastic Trash Endangers Everyone
A new study reported in Science (Feb 13 2015) shows that all forms of plastic trash (containers, fishing buoys, bottles) are rising in the world’s oceans – and will continue […]
Books: The Sea & Its Abundance
Current and recent books of the seas and their creatures explore species that have prevailed for millions of years –broadbill swordfish, sharks, eels, horseshoe crabs – with amazing adaptations and […]
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