In an announcement of good news, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers again delayed its timing to seek bids to dredge the Matagorda Bay shipping channel through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site. The bids would vastly expand exports from an oil export terminal...
A recent study of shark meat and fins being sold highlighted the dangers that come with the practice and consumption of these products. A team of scientists from the United States and Hong Kong assessed the risks of shark products, and most of the products...
For Immediate Release: September 1, 2022 Contacts: Scott Webb, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (707) 921-8211, swebb@seaturtles.org Laura Cunningham, Western Watersheds Project, (775) 513-1280, lcunningham@westernwatersheds.org Chance Cutrano, Resource Renewal Institute, (415) 928-3774, ccutrano@rri.org Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185, jmiller@biologicaldiversity.org Jack Gescheidt, In Defense of Animals, (415) 948-0057, jackg@idausa.org Rigorous New...
Urgent! Tell the California Coastal Commission that chronic water pollution caused by private ranching operations in the only National Seashore on the West Coast is unacceptable....
Some of the recent work SPAWN has been involved with was highlighted in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ News and Information Hub. The work done at the former San Geronimo course was mentioned, where SPAWN helped create water-receiving floodplains and side channels benefitting wildlife. The...
In a recent update to their annual smolt report, the National Park Service (NPS) provided encouraging news for salmon lovers. From mid-March through late May, they are at Olema and Redwood Creeks to study counts for the season. During the 12 weeks the NPS crew was...
Forty underwater temperature loggers now sit underwater on coral reefs across the Bay Islands in Honduras. Their purpose? To identify the temperature range that corals can withstand and typically experience within a year. These ONSET TidBits, as they’re known, measure water temperatures every minute and store...
The sex of sea turtles depends on the temperature of developing eggs, and the temperatures of recent summers have had their impact. Warmer sands result in female hatchlings, while cooler sands result in male sea turtles. In a recent story in Reuters, some Florida beaches...
Like the birds and the bees, corals also need to reproduce and continue to build upon the colorful reefs that we know and love. But have you ever wondered how the coral animal reproduces? Afterall, it can’t move and it doesn’t have any reproductive organs. Let’s...
The Oculina coral reef is a 90-mile strip of reefs off the central east coast of Florida. The area takes its name after the slow-growing ivory-tree coral, Oculina varicosa. The coral forms support dense and diverse essential habitat for complex communities of finfish and invertebrates. Recently,...
