Category: Coastal News

Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor

12/28/2023 - By scientificamerican.com. Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved Despite incredible advances in modern genomic research, science is nowhere near being able to clone long-extinct animals like the fictional ones in Jurassic Park. Even relatively recent… SEE MORE

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Oysters: Unsung Climate Heroes for your Holiday Buffet

12/27/2023 - By Rochelle Baker. There are moments when Steve Pocock questions the wisdom of his chosen profession as a shellfish farmer. Picking oysters off a beach in the dead of night during a low winter tide, then navigating whiteout conditions to get a loaded vessel home to port, while freezing and… SEE MORE

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Climate Change is Hurting Coral Worldwide. But these Reefs off the Texas Coast are Thriving

12/26/2023 - By Jamie Stengle, LM Otero and Kendria Lafleur. OFF THE COAST OF GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with yellow, orange and pink coral… SEE MORE

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Seabirds Can Help Predict the Size of Fish Stocks—If Only We’d Listen

12/25/2023 - By Abby McBride. The scientists who study terns, puffins, and other fish-eating birds are trying to get fisheries managers to heed their warnings. In 2015, fisheries managers monitoring Atlantic herring in the waters off the United States and Canada made a grave miscalculation. Things were looking good for the multimillion-dollar… SEE MORE

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At Sharkathon, Shark Fishers Are a Keen Audience for Conservation Advice

12/24/2023 - By Claudia Geib. Catch-and-release fishing can kill sharks. But fishers will work to limit the damage—once they know how.Every fall, more than 900 recreational anglers in Texas gather their gear and wade into the blood-warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico for Sharkathon. In this four-day catch-and-release shark fishing tournament,… SEE MORE

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Biden-Harris Administration Makes $106 Million Available for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund as Part of Investing In America Agenda

12/23/2023 - By ecomagazine.com. The Department of Commerce and NOAA are announcing the availability of up to $106 million in funding through the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) for Pacific salmon and steelhead recovery and conservation projects. This funding—which includes funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act… SEE MORE

Fun Crossword Puzzle that Explores Kelp Forests

12/22/2023 - Atlas Obscura and the Monterey Bay Aquarium worked together with crossword genius Brendan Emmett Quigley to create a fun diversion: this interactive puzzle that explores the aquarium’s Kelp Forest exhibit. The puzzle is available to download here as a .pdf (link below), but you can also do interactively online here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/monterey-bay-aquarium-crossword-kelp-forest. The links in… SEE MORE

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Twin Crises Send Cargo Ships Back to 18th Century Trade Routes

12/21/2023 - By gcaptain.com. A year that started with smooth sailing for the global economy — vanishing supply snarls, slower inflation and fading pandemic gloom — is ending with another gathering storm as the maritime industry and retailers that rely on it confront crises in the world’s two big ocean-to-ocean canals. The… SEE MORE

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Fuel Spill after Shrimp Boat Sinks Near Tampa

12/20/2023 - By nationalfisherman.com. A widespread storm that swept across Florida left a fuel spill in Hillborough Bay near Tampa, as the Coast Guard scrambled to assist more than 20 vessels in distress Sunday. Boat and aircrews of Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg responded to multiple calls about recreational boats displaced in… SEE MORE

Explore the unprecedented climate data for November 2023, revealing it as the sixth consecutive month of record-warm global temperatures

Earth Had It’s Warmest Fall On Record

12/19/2023 - By ncei.noaa.gov. Earth had its warmest November and the warmest September–November period on record. November and Seasonal Highlights: November marked the sixth record-warm month in a row. The September–November 2023 global surface temperature ranked as the warmest such period on record, a substantial leap (+0.70°F or +0.39°C) above the previous… SEE MORE