Climate ChangeWe are tinkering with our planet's basic life support systems - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century of Global Warming - Wired NewsAre Our Oceans Dying? Phytoplankton has Declined Terrifying 40% in 60 Years - Common Dreams (press release)Lessons From Two Important Climate Forecasts - New York Times (blog)Global climate effort 'still inadequate' as talks continue - EurActivYou can't explain away climate change - Los Angeles TimesHappy 35th birthday, global warming! - RealClimateClimate change to blame for hottest summer ever? - AFPStephen H. Schneider, climate change expert, dies at 65 - Washington PostOceans in Peril: Primed for Mass Extinction? - LiveScience.com
Marine DebrisOmatseye: NIMASA's Agent Of Change - Nigeria Daily Independent
Water PollutionWater quality closures up at some area beaches - San Francisco ChronicleSome good news, for a change - Baltimore Sun (blog)Survey finds water quality closed fewer beaches in 2009 - TheDay.comBeaches in Broward, Palm Beach counties score high for clean water - Sun-SentinelA warmer ocean is a less green one - Discover Magazine (blog)Gulf of Mexico has long been a sink of pollution - Houma CourierCO2 Absorption and Nutrient Runoffs Increase Acidity of Puget Sound - New York TimesStimulus money funds New Hanover County oyster rehabilitation - WECT-TV6Cleaner Water Helps Corals Combat Climate Change (Duh.) - TreehuggerSchwarzenegger Greenwashes His Disastrous Ocean Policy - Bay Area Indymedia
Marine Life DeclineVital Marine Plants in Steep Decline - Wall Street JournalWarming of Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life - Wired NewsFathoming: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico: Not as far away as you think - Working WaterfrontOceans in Peril: Primed for Mass Extinction? - LiveScience.comLoggerhead nesting continues decline - Tampa Bay NewspapersHow Oil Lobbyists Are Writing California's Environmental Laws - CounterPunchThe Scales Fall - New YorkerOil could spoil the 'salt life' for Florida sportsmen - Tbo.comDespite massive restoration efforts, American shad have not rebounded - The Chesapeake Bay JournalLords debate Biodiversity - DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)