ImpactsKevin Dooley/Flickr Philadephia’s diatom archive is a way, way, wayback machine A cache of phytoplankton held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping to reconstruct historical coastlines.
Newsletter www.nbcnews.com Warming oceans may be choking off oxygen to starfish, causing them to 'drown' Warming ocean temperatures are fueling increases in organic material and bacteria that suck up oxygen in these watery habitats.
Resilience Entangled: How a global seaweed ‘plague’ threatens West Africa's coastline From the Gulf of Guinea to the mouth of the Senegal River, a sprawling shroud of seaweed is choking coastal ecosystems and the fishing communities that depend on them.
Impacts Striped bass decline spurs new look at mycobacteria Chronic wasting disease infects most of the striped bass in the Chesapeake.
Impacts www.bayjournal.com High flows to Chesapeake Bay continued in July The pollution carried into the Bay has led to worse than normal water quality and last month triggered a large oxygen-starved "dead zone" in the Bay.
Politics www.irishtimes.com John Kerry: ‘World leaders not doing enough to protect oceans’ The former US secretary of state is leading the global effort to halt the decline of marine environments.
Impacts www.alaskapublic.org As some sea star populations make a comeback, scientists may have found cause of ‘wasting disease’ Scientists once thought it was caused by a virus or another pathogen, but now they think it may actually be another sign of climate change.
