Three articles in the 26 October edition of Science caught my attention and prompted these comments. The first, by Chris Costello of Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, and several west coast colleagues concerns our harvest of the world’s ‘unassessed’… Read More »Global overfishing, contaminated fish, the environmental crisis continues.
I was all set to write about the pending government decision over whether to allow the purchase of Canadian oil extractor, Nexen, by the Chinese government-owned CNOOC, when I saw Jeffrey Simpson’s prediction in the Globe & Mail that the… Read More »Northern Gateway, Defend our Coast, Nexen, Climate Change and Our Uncertain Future
I heard about the study of loss of coral cover during the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium in Cairns, Queensland, this July. The peer-reviewed publication was today posted on-line at the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. … Read More »Sobering news from the Great Barrier Reef – will people wake up to the environmental crisis now?