- 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: 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 Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- 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.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Moby Duck
Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood Resource Type: Article Published: 2007
- 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.
- Poisoners of the Seas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988
- This is Your Ocean on Acid
The Big Picture Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 More than 40 percent of the worlds oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas if any left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of green capitalism or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power no matter how green are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- WWF -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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