Forest Knolls, CA – Today Gotmercury.org made live a mobile phone version of its online mercury-in-seafood calculator that estimates mercury exposure from eating seafood: www.gotmercury.mobi Shoppers and diners can use…
Scientists Call for Protected “Swimways” for the Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle at International Environmental Meeting The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress this week adopted…
Scientists Call for Protected Ocean Corridors for Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles and Sharks at International Environmental Meeting The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress this…
The Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (S.906), a bipartisan bill introduced in March 2007, will ban the export of mercury from the United States. While it does not directly…
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress passed a resolution calling on the world, but especially Costa Rica and Ecuador where the species migrate between…
The Gulf of Mexico from the Texas/Louisiana boundary southward to the boundary shared by Matagorda and Brazoria Counties (Texas) is full of debris following Hurricane Ike. The National Marine Fisheries…
The World Bank is no bastion of environmental conservation, but they have joined the swelling ranks of governments, environmental NGOs, fishery managers, and even the WTO (!) in speaking up…
Wasteful Fishing Practices Cost Global Fleet $2.2 Trillion between 1974-2007 while Driving Sea Turtles, Seabirds and Sharks Toward Extinction Streamlining global fishing fleets and catching fewer fish could conservatively save…
at http://cbs5.com/environment/leatherback.turtle.killed.2.869880.html (CBS 5) ― Each year, hundreds leatherback turtles migrate half way around the world — swimming thousands of miles across the Pacific from their nesting grounds in Indonesia…
New Evidence Highlights Dangers of Mercury Toxicity in Fish SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Jane Hightower — widely acknowledged as the first US physician to recognize low-level mercury…