What on earth are we doing to our planet?     This Is Our Doing      Ice shelves in both the Arctic & Antarctic are melting at a rate that no scientist would have ever predicted.  As we learned in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth,  thousands of Polar bears who can swim up to 60 miles are drowning as they swim in search of a meal.  In search of an ice pad to rest upon the beautiful bears soon find the ice solids that they count on for their survival are just not there.  Exhausted, the mighty bear eventually can not swim another stroke, bringing them to a pointless and preventable death caused by none other than the conveniences and luxuries of man.          The U.N. Climate Panel, projects that world atmospheric temperature will rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius because of emissions of greenhouse gases that could bring floods, droughts, heat waves and more powerful storms. As glaciers and ice sheets melt, they can raise overall ocean levels and swamp low-lying areas. Read more... Bottled Water Means Garabage...       1.5 million tons of plastic waste each year   According to Food and Water Watch, that plastic requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce. And while the plastic used to bottle beverages is of high quality and in demand by recyclers, over 80 percent of plastic bottles are simply thrown away. That assumes empty bottles actually make it to a garbage can. Plastic waste is now at such a volume that vast eddies of current-bound plastic trash now spin endlessly in the world's major oceans. This represents a great risk to marine life, killing birds and fish which mistake our garbage for food.  Thanks to its slow decay rate, the vast majority of all plastics ever produced      still exist  ...                              somewhere.                   Does this look Natural?                              What are the causes of a sinkhole?

Exactly How To Kill An Ocean

Catching More Than Fish

A new study finds that millions of sea turtles may be victims of commercial fishing.

Healthy ecosystems sustain life—from providing food and clean water to supplying medicines and raw materials. Humans influence the health and vitality of virtually every ecosystem on the planet. If managed well, ecosystems are resilient and people can continue to rely on them for generations to come. However, managing ecosystems effectively means understanding the stress caused by human activity and finding ways to mitigate that stress.
The Marine Conservation Initiative believes that the two largest, yet most solvable, threats to the oceans are overfishing (including bycatch and discards of unwanted catch) and habitat alteration (including coastal development, damaging resource extraction, and aquaculture). Through science, strategic communications, and policy reform, the Initiative works to improve ocean management and reach our goal of productive, healthy marine ecosystems today and for future generations.

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The number of sea turtles inadvertently caught by commercial fishing gear during the past 20 years may reach into the millions, according to the first peer-reviewed study to compile sea turtle bycatch data from gillnet, trawl and longline fisheries worldwide. Six of the world’s seven species of sea turtles are currently listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. “Loggerhead turtles die the same way in the Mediterranean, where boats from 21 countries hunt for tuna and swordfish. These two areas are urgent conservation priorities.” Extinction crisis continues apace: The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction. Global Bycatch Assessment of Long-lived Species was designed to characterize the bycatch of marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles by synthesizing existing information and developing new analytical and quantitative tools to assess bycatch effects

Doomed by a gill net, a thresher shark in Mexico's Gulf of California is among an estimated 40 million sharks killed yearly for their fins. Removing top predators,

 such as sharks and bluefin tuna, from the ecosystem can degrade marine habitats. Fins of thresher sharks

 are cut off and collected on the shores of San Marcos Island, Mexico. Shark fin is used, primarily in Asia, to make shark fin soup—a delicacy widely consumed in China since at least the start of the Sung dynasty

 in A.D. 960. As incomes increase in Asia,

the demand for shark fin grows. Fishermen remove more than 170 billion pounds of wildlife a year

from the seas. A new study suggests that

our current appetite could soon

 lead to a worldwide fisheries collapse.

Tragic Loss Of Marine Life On The California Coast

 

Scientists examine dead blue whale and her 17 ft. baby calf (fetus) on San Mateo County beach

80-foot Blue whale weighing over 75 tons, with her calf fetus found washed up on a California coast. The 17 ft. fetus was most likely born after death from a discharge of gas pressure. Its

been over 3 decades since a blue whale landed on a local beachnd quantitative tools to assess bycatch effects and risk.  Blue whales are the largest animals known to exist. They can grow to 110 feet in length and weigh up to 180 tons.

"Its heart is probably the size and weight of a Volkswagen Beetle," Oliver said.

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January 2010 could have possibly been the beginning of a CYCLE OF QUAKES in haiti

 

Update  October 24, 2010 - January 12th, the worst earthquake in 200 years - 7.0 in magnitude - struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The initial quake was later followed by twelve aftershocks greater than magnitude 5.0. Structures of all kinds were damaged or collapsed,

from shantytown homes to national landmarks. 

Scientists say this could be the beginning of a

cycle of quakes with the worst yet to come.

 

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NASA Satelite Image taken July 19 Gulf of Mexico

It's hard to deny that we bring this on ourselves.  In a fuel thirsty world it is nothing short of our  need for this oil and lack of conserving that make the oil companies push the limits of Mother Nature and our planet's resources.  We all talk about conserving energy, but talk is cheap

 

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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Gulf Rescue Efforts Still Continue 6 Months Later

The Obama administration is lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling that was put in place after the Gulf oil disaster, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday.  Salazar and the new head of the government agency overseeing offshore drilling, Michael Bromwich, were scheduled to hold a 1 p.m. news conference on the issue.  Salazar suspended certain deepwater drilling activities on July 12 under the premise that certain deepwater drilling posed a threat to the marine, coastal, and human environment.

Since then, Salazar has determined that deepwater oil and gas drilling can resume provided that operators certify compliance with all existing rules and requirements, including those that recently went into effect, the Department of Interior said in a press release.  Members of industry must also demonstrate the availability of adequate blowout containment resources, the department said.

 

 

     

 

DOSE.CA, August 26, 2010

UN News Center, August 25, 2010

US sea turtles affected by Gulf oil spill now face drowning in shrimp nets

BYM Environmental News, August 25, 2010