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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Updated: 4 months ago
Ocean dumping is the dumping or placing
of a wide range of materials, including garbage, construction and demolition
debris, sewage sludge, dredge material, and waste chemicals, in the ocean. Oc...
Updated: 4 months ago
Dams are
generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water while other structures
such as floodgates, levees and dikes are used to prevent water flow into
specific land regions and generate hy...
Updated: 4 months ago
The Census of Marine Life is a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversit...
Updated: 5 months ago
The
islandNet network was recently established by the Invasive Animals
Cooperative Research Centre (IA CRC) with funding support from the
Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and t...
Updated: 8 months ago
Making it illegal to collect rainwaterIn The Shock Doctrine, journalist Klein trains her sharp investigator's eye upon the flaws of neoliberal economics. This meticulously researched alternative hi...
Areas: Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Coastal and Marine Invasive Species, Coastal and Marine Law and Policy, Coastal and Marine Pollution, Coastal Ecology, Coral Reef Conservation, Mangrove Conservation ...
Type: Website - Author: Naomi Klein
Type: Website - Author: Naomi Klein
Updated: 8 months ago
Mongabay.com news on symbiotic relationships
Updated: 9 months ago
Macrocosm USA, Inc. (501 3-c) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational clearinghouse for progressives. Its purpose is to compile and edit materials into utilit...
Areas: Public Health, Sanitation, Environmental Justice, Ethnic Equality, Indigenous Rights, Lakes and Ponds, River-Lake Ecology and Biodiversity, Rivers and Creeks, Wetlands, EcoVillages ...
Type: Other - Author: Sandi Brockway
Type: Other - Author: Sandi Brockway
Updated: 9 months ago
MARINE BIOLOGY
THE FIELD OF MARINE BIOLOGY
The field of marine biology -- the study of marine organisms, their behaviors, and their interactions with the environment -- is consi...
Country: .Global
Areas: Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Coastal and Marine Invasive Species, Coastal and Marine Law and Policy, Coastal and Marine Pollution, Coastal Ecology, Marine Ecology and Conservation, Coral Reef Conservation, Mangrove ConservationType: Video - Author: Marine Science Resource Group
Updated: 11 months ago
Is Coke’s Dasani Full of Hot Air?Shareholders, Activists Challenge Coke’s “Green” ImageWILMINGTON, DE – While Coca-Cola executives plan to use today’s shareholders’ meeting as a forum to trumpet th...
Areas: Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Coastal and Marine Invasive Species, Coastal and Marine Law and Policy, Coastal and Marine Pollution, Coastal Ecology, Coral Reef Conservation, Mangrove Conservation ...
Type: Website
Type: Website
Updated: 11 months ago
Today as citizens of the world, we face a daunting array of social and environmental problems ranging from health care and education to global warming and economic inequality. For each of these iss...