ocean

  • Expedición oceánica busca mapear la biodiversidad de CA

    Suzanne Potter California News Service Investigadores marinos acaban de concluir la primera de tres expediciones oceánicas frente a la costa del sur de California para mapear la biodiversidad y apoyar los esfuerzos para salvaguardar a los animales marinos de prácticas pesqueras dañinas. La organización sin fines de lucro Oceana...
  • Ocean expedition seeks to map CA biodiversity

    Suzanne Potter California News Service Marine researchers just wrapped up the first of three ocean expeditions off the coast of Southern California to map the biodiversity and support efforts to safeguard ocean animals from harmful fishing practices. The nonprofit Oceana recently teamed up with a company called Blancpain to map and...
  • What are we doing about getting rid of all the plastic floating in the ocean and forming giant gyres far from land?

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Plastic in the ocean is a big problem that first came to widespread public attention in the late 1980s when mariners began sharing reports of what turned out to be a 1.6 million square kilometer garbage patch (that’s about three times the size...
  • Groups Petition for Better Orca Habitat Protections

    Suzanne Potter / California News Service MONTEREY, Calif. – On Monday, a coalition of conservation groups sent more than 105,000 signatures to the National Marine Fisheries Service asking the agency to speed up a plan to expand habitat protections for killer whales. The Southern Resident orca spend their summers in...
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