Category: Nature

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These Items in Your Home Are Harming America’s Sea Animals

11/20/2020 - By Catrin Einhorn. How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades of research and gruesome images of whales’ bellies filled with plastic and a turtle with a straw lodged in its nostril. A new report by Oceana, a conservation group, illustrates some of what we know… SEE MORE

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Slow Speed Zone SE of NYC to Protect Right Whales

11/18/2020 - In Effect Through December 2 NOAA Fisheries is triggering a Slow Zone (voluntary vessel speed restriction zone), southeast of New York City. This Slow Zone was triggered on November 17, 2020, when the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute acoustic monitoring buoy detected right whales in the New York Bight, New York. Mariners, please go around this… SEE MORE

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/11/seabins-trap-plastics-great-lakes-canada/

New Project Pulls Plastics Out of the Great Lakes

11/12/2020 - By Sharon Oosthoek. An estimated 9,887 metric tonnes (22 million pounds) of plastics make their way into the Great Lakes every year. Now a new project aims not only to suck out some of that plastic but stop it from getting into the lakes in the first place. It began last summer with… SEE MORE

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/weather/eta-storm-wednesday/index.html

Hurricane Eta Threatens Florida’s Gulf Coast

11/11/2020 - By Madeline Holcombe. Eta strengthened again to a Category 1 hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday morning, and it could soon veer toward Florida bringing heavy downpours and dangerous flash flooding, river flooding and landslides. Hurricane watches are in effect from Anna Maria Island to Yankeetown, Florida, meaning hurricane… SEE MORE

Prime Bird Areas in the Great Lakes Lack Protection

11/6/2020 - By Joshua Rapp Learn. Many prime areas for birds in the Great Lakes region of the United States lack protection, according to new research. The northern shore of Lake Michigan is particularly rich in marsh bird biodiversity. “There are a lot of high priority wetlands that need to be protected,”… SEE MORE

U.S. Winter Outlook: Cooler North, Warmer South with Ongoing La Nina

10/28/2020 - NOAA’s winter forecast for the U.S. favors warmer, drier conditions across the southern tier of the U.S., and cooler, wetter conditions in the North, thanks in part to an ongoing La Nina. Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — a division of the National Weather Service — are also closely monitoring persistent… SEE MORE

Unsold Oysters go to New Jersey Restoration Reefs

10/23/2020 - By Kirk Moore. For months COVID-19 restrictions have shut down restaurants in New Jersey and stalled the promising rebirth of the state’s oyster industry. That left a lot of now-oversized oysters in Delaware and Barnegat bays. A new project led by Rutgers University and New Jersey Sea Grant is buying… SEE MORE

Two Great White Sharks Detected off Rhode Island Coast

10/21/2020 - By Melanie DaSilva. Two great white sharks were detected off the coast of Rhode Island this past month, the Atlantic Shark Institute (ASI) announced on Wednesday. Seven great white sharks have now been detected this year, becoming the largest number of white sharks identified in a single season to date in this… SEE MORE

King Tides and Sea-level Rise are Flooding Communities Along the East Coast

10/21/2020 - By Matthew Cappucci. Despite tranquil weather to start this week, flooding has affected coastal communities from the Florida Keys to Maine. Long stretches of shoreline along the East Coast were inundated, water levels running a foot or more above normal. The swollen sea temporarily claimed streets, parking lots and public… SEE MORE

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Coast Guard, Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources Overseeing Cleanup of Oil on Broadkill Beach

10/21/2020 - The Coast Guard, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control are responding to, and overseeing the cleanup of oil patties that washed ashore on Broadkill Beach, Tuesday. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay command center received a relayed call made by DNREC to the Coast Guard National Response Center… SEE MORE

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