- Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
- Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
- The End of the Line
How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Muddying the waters
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
- Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
- The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 This book covers aspects of life on and under the sea: terms, oceanography, shipwrecks, shanties, sailors, explorers, maritime inventors, steam, tidal power, marine wildlife, piracy, the East India Company, etc#.To the tune of 2600 entries in dictionary arrangement, with appropriate asterisked cross-references.
- Paradise Lost at Sea
Rethinking Cruise Vacations Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
- Das Reich der Natur in Farben
Das Meer Resource Type: Book
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Saving the Oceans
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
- Sea of Slaughter
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Documents the white European's onslaught on the North American continent, and its devastating results for other life. Mowat writes of the slaughter of buffalo and walrus, wolves and whales, of the virtual destruction of the salmon fishery on the east coast.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society. The Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society monitors and reports on the population status of Arctic marine mammals.
- Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape fish farm near Victoria after nets damaged
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped into Pacific waters east of Victoria, BC after facilities containing an estimated 305,000 fish were damaged at a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Island.
- War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.
- WWF -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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