Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Help USDA Fight Hungry Pests: Keep an Eye Out for Asian Longhorned Beetle (Aug 1, 2012) Throughout August, the Asian longhorned beetle may emerge from the trees in your community. This destructive beetle kills 13 types of hardwood…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest regional administrator William Stelle, had an op-ed in the Portland Oregonian on Saturday that discussed progress in the West Coast groundfish catch share program during its first year of implementation. Read the full post »
Following his promotion today from captain to rear admiral, Gerd Glang was named as director of the NOAA Office of Coast Survey and the nation’s chief hydrographer, responsible for mapping and charting of all United States coastal waters.
By Whit Remer, Policy Analyst, Environmental Defense Fund It’s been an exciting year for Louisiana and the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign. In July 2011, nine gulf senators banded together and introduced the RESTORE Act – legislation that would ensure penalties paid by BP and…
By Cameron Davis Ohio State University’s Center for Lake Erie Area Research (CLEAR) and Sea Grant’s Stone Lab—the oldest freshwater biological field station in the U.S.—is perched on Lake Erie’s Gibraltar Island and the northwestern tip of Lake Erie’s South Bass Island. They look over…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Museum Scientists Find State Record 87 Eggs in Largest Python from Everglades (Aug 13, 2012) University of Florida researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python , the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- FWC Increases Lionfish Harvest Opportunities, Asks Public to Help (Aug 13, 2012) The FWC is taking actions to encourage more Floridians and visitors to harvest lionfish to limit the negative impacts Lionfish have on native fish and…
Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, processes used to extract natural gas from underground shale formations, have unlocked vast new domestic reserves — an unexpected abundance that has overturned many of America’s assumptions about energy. Every major-party candidate for public office…
We can often get wrapped up in policy discussions and advocacy, and forget to take a moment to appreciate why we care about the ocean. Last week a video started popping up on the internet of some dolphins off the coast of Santa Cruz, CA. The video was meant to be of a tuna fishing [...]
By Marcelo Norsworthy In a much-anticipated report on the management of the Port of Houston Authority (PHA), the Sunset Commission , as directed by the Texas legislature, identified several opportunities to improve aspects of port management, including accountability and stakeholder trust. …
Here's hoping the new oil spill claims czar will do better (editorial) The Press-Register (Mobile, Ala.). August 11, 2012. "WHILE THEY are both accomplished trial lawyers, the two men chosen as administrators of the BP oil spill claims process are a study in contrasts…" ( Read more )…
By Lina Younes With NOAA’s revised hurricane season outlook for 2012 forecasting “above-normal” tropical storm activity for this year, I think it is timely to take several steps to get yourself and your family prepared before any hurricanes reach our shores. While the official hurricane season…
By Marita Mirzatuny Source: “ERCOT Investment Incentives and Resource Adequacy.” Brattle Group. June 1, 2012. In January, we discussed the benefits of demand response (DR) and how Texas is not taking full advantage of it. Not only is DR a low cost, zero water source for providing capacity…
By Amy Hardberger The post was guest authored by Joanna Wolaver of the National Wildlife Federation The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) adopted rules on Wednesday, August 8 th that fall short of protecting environmental flows in the Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission and Aransas…
By Gernot Wagner There should no longer be any doubt. Climate change is here, and it is happening. 26,000 broken heat records this summer speak for themselves. Extreme weather events hit home. Another consequence of climate change, by contrast – rising sea levels – often seems far away and far…
A team of federal and university scientists on a 10-day expedition in the Gulf of Mexico has discovered Lophelia coral growing deeper than previously seen anywhere in the Gulf. Newly available information on Lophelia’s growth rate and conditions will inform future environmental review and…
By Eric Pooley To download a copy of this briefing paper, please click here . Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, processes used to extract natural gas from underground shale formations, have unlocked vast new domestic reserves — an unexpected abundance that has overturned many of…
By Elena Craft, PhD Credit: Mom's Clean Air Force Texas isn’t the only state dealing with air quality issues. In Georgia this week, I joined numerous experts working in a collaborative effort to develop cost-efficient strategies and solutions for reducing diesel engine emissions. At this…
By: Nancy Grundahl Have you discovered ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) art? It uses the characters of a typical computer to create graphics — like this fish art. ><((“> ><((“> ><((“> ><((“> ><((“> ><((“>…
Sinkhole free of radiation but residents still mad The Associated Press. August 10, 2012. "BATON ROUGE, La. — As state scientists monitored the toxicity of naturally occurring radiation at a slurry hole in Assumption Parish, residents said Thursday they were furious with their public state…