“[A]mmonia wafting off the droppings of 60,000 birds contributed to the formation of clouds that might be insulating Antarctica, helping cool down an otherwise rapidly warming continent.” Read the full poop story.
For immediate release: Across the globe, conservation groups from major salmon farming regions – Norway, Canada, Chile, Scotland, and Australia – have criticized the Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s (ASC) newly released Farm Standard for continuing to endorse irresponsible salmon farming practices that place wild fish and marine ecosystems at risk.
The ASC Farm Standard adopts Salmon Standard criteria that are either outdated or have been weakened over the last decade to accommodate industry ‘business as usual’ practices:
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, examined environmental DNA to determine the levels of bacteria, fungi and viruses previously shown to be harmful to wild salmon. Read the full CBC article here.
"More than two decades ago, researchers captured the first confirmed footage of a deepsea anglerfish. But something about it seemed off. Or, more specifically, upside down.
The female whipnose anglerfish was bobbing around belly-up just above the ocean's floor.
"What wasn't known was: Is this abnormal behaviour?" Andrew Stewart, curator of fishes at the Museum of New Zealand, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal."
Originally published The Mercury | Opinion | March 24, 2024
Karen Wristen, Executive Director, Living Oceans Society (Canada),
Emma Helverson, Executive Director, Wild Fish Conservancy (USA),
James Overington, Chief Executive Officer, Environment Tasmania (Australia)
You’re probably wishing, like me, that ocean health was the biggest problem you had to worry about right now. With a bright orange dumpster fire burning to the south of us and the far right rising east of us (not to mention among us), the year’s getting off to a pretty grim start. Add in a governing party preoccupied with choosing the firefighter-in-chief and a looming election; and it doesn’t seem likely that we’re going to see positive policy change for the environment any time soon.
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