YURI, our male Pacific green (black) tagged with a satellite transmitter at Cocos Island last month appears to have left the relative safety of Cocos Island and is 179 km…
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San Geronimo, Marin County, CA– The summer sun beats down on Marin County creeks as endangered coho salmon in the San Geronimo Valley are fighting to survive through another drought-stricken year. A series of reports released today by the Marin’s watershed organization, SPAWN, the Salmon Protection And Watershed Network, documents that coho salmon, who normally only spend their first 1.5 years of life in local creeks, were locked in drying streams and inhibited from migrating to sea during last year’s spring drought of record
The oil spilling from a damaged rig in the Timor Sea above Australia’s Top End is threatening sea turtles and whales. The Kimberly region in the northwest corner of the…
The Environmental News Service is reporting that a new analysis of a nationwide study of mercury levels in Americans found that one-third of women’s blood now contains the neurotoxin. Eating…
Advisory Council Recognizes Severe Decline of West Coast Sea Turtles and Need for Protection and Recovery The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC) adopted a resolution yesterday urging…
The National Marine Fisheries Service was given deadlines to respond to our calls for stronger protections for leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. The news was covered by several media outlets…
A 10-day sea turtle tagging research expedition to Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica successfully outfitted three green turtles and one hawksbill turtle with satellite transmitters in order to follow their movements, as part of a long-term research project to understand the importance of Cocos Island for highly pelagic species that migrate throughout the Pacific.
Public Comment from the Ocean Task Force Hearing in San Francisco: I am asking that the Obama administration give top priority in its Ocean policy to research and assist sea…
The first rains of the season that fell over Marin two weeks ago had San Rafael resident Lisa Chipkin outside her home excitedly studying how the rainwater was flowing on her property. She was gathering information to help her transform her property from one that wastes rainwater by diverting it as runoff down storm drains, to one that values it as a resource to benefit her landscape and surrounding stream eco-systems.