This week, Grist has posted a series of fantastic articles about the oceans, seafood, and marine life. The posts coincide with World Oceans Day - Monday.
- Jane Lubchenco, Obama's pick to head NOAA, says "Ocean acidity has increased by 30%" thanks to human emissions. This piece includes that and other dire predictions on the fate of the oceans as a result of human carelessness.
- The documentary The End of the Line predicts the end of seafood by the year 2048 if we don't change our ways. (For another review of the film, see one here in The Independent.)
- This piece is a little cheerier, pointing readers to a reference guide to eco-friendly seafood. Plus, it includes an entertaining story about a fishing trip the author remembers from his childhood. (Mark Bittman in NYT did a piece on the same topic - the difficulty of buying ethical fish - this week.)
- Yikes, another scary documentary - this one, Sea Change, is about ocean acidification.
And here's some more recent fish-and-marine-life-related headlines (not from Grist but still on topic):
- A study in Woods Hole, MA links environmental toxins to stranded marine mammals.
- This is one of the stupidest things I've heard since Larry Summers called Africa "underpolluted." West Virginia's state government decided that because West Virginians don't eat much fish, it's OK for their waterways to have more mercury. Weak!
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