Study shows widespread climate changes underway in B.C’s Oceans affecting fisheries, deep sea-diversity and coastal habitats

VANCOUVER, BC – A newly-released report by WWF and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) reveals that the effects of climate change are reducing fish habitat on B.C.’s coast, threatening the province’s lucrative groundfish and shellfish fisheries. The study is the first regional synthesis of its kind to document observed and expected impacts of [...]

Reefs at Risk Revisited | World Resources Institute

Seventy-five percent of the world’s coral reefs are currently threatened by local and global pressures, according to a comprehensive analysis released by the World Resources Institute, along with the Nature Conservancy, the WorldFish Center, the International Coral Reef Action Network, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Center, and a network of more [...]

The oceans are in trouble: 5 threats

Save Our Seas Foundation has compiled a list of the top 5 threats to the global ocean including links to excellent primers on each of these threats. The oceans are in trouble. We are at a crossroads in history, and the actions we take – or fail to take – in the next decade will [...]

Corallines offers wealth of climate data, researchers say

HALIFAX — A little-known marine organism on Canada’s East Coast contains what a team of U.S. and Canadian scientists believes is a rich, untapped archive of temperature data, which could vastly improve the world’s understanding of climate change. Scientists spent the past summer on an expedition ship along the coast of Newfoundland, scuba diving in [...]