NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - WHALE DIE OFF IN THE PACIFIC by Kate Linthicum
UC SAN DIEGO SCRIPPS BIRCH AQUARIUM
Working science labs and an effort to breed sea dragons and seahorses. On the campus of UC San Diego.
The Aquarium is keen on education and has frequent special workshops and adventures.
Have those fishies missed the crowds?
What about the sea lions?
LA TIMES - EPA NEEDS TO ACT FAST - DDT BARRELS OFF CATALINA - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA By the LA Times Editorial Board from March 22, 2021
EXCERPTS: On a clear day, looking south from Rancho Palos Verdes' Point Vicente Lighthouse across the San Pedro Channel to Catalina Island offers a stunning postcard-worthy vista of coastline, sparkling blue water and the busy comings-and-goings from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
What you can't see is what lies below the water: as many as 500,000 corroding barrels of DDT, and extremely effective insecticide the U.S. government banned in 1972 because it caused long-term damage to the environment and wildlife - and because it was a probably human carcinogen.
... If you look out from Point Vicente for the next few weeks, you may see the research vessel Sally Ride mixed among the ships and boats plying the channel. Those aboard include 31 scientists and crew members who are mapping 50,000 acres if seafloor to try to catalogue the scope of the DDT barrel graveyard, a critical early step in trying to figure out the best way to deal with the barrels and chemical seepage.
DAILY MAIL UK ONLINE: SCIENCE THAMES RIVER MICROPLASTIC and CRABS
EXCERPT: Researchers found that 94,000 microplastic particles - many from larger pieces of plastic broken down - were flowing through parts of the Thames every second.
These also included fibers from washing machine outflows and sewage outfalls - with much of it being swallowed by local wildlife including various crab species.
The density of microplastics in the Thames was higher than some other major rivers including the Rhine in Germany, the Danube in Romania, and the Chicago in the U.S.
DAILY MAIL SCIENCE GREY WHALE LOST IN MEDITERRAINEAN
Or is Wally just adventurous?
EXCERPTS: Biologists are working tirelessly to help relocate Wally over fears he cannot find the invertebrates that are his normal food source in the depths of the Pacific Ocean....
As ice disappears. passages open for marine animals to travel between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.
However, some marine animals like Wally, become confused and are taking the wrong route when it is time to migrate.
Wally is believed to have taken the Gibraltar Straight to the Mediterranean and followed the Moroccan coast before traveling across Italian shores and landing in France where Hansen and his team spotted him.
PHYS ORG SEA GRASS and PLASTIC
EXCERPT: There are some 70 species of marine seagrass, grouped in several families of flowering plants that - originally on land - recolonized the ocean some80 to 100 million years ago.
Growing from the Artic to the tropics, most speies hae long, grass-like leaves that can form vast unerwater meadows.
They are more than just pretty, however.
They play a vital role in improving water quality, absorb CO2 and exude oxygen, and are a natural nursery and refuge for hundreds of species of fish.
EXCERPT: Sea Shepherd's Legal Mission is to save marine wildlife and habitats by enforcing, strengthening, and developing protective laws, treaties, policies, and practices worldwide. We work collaboratively with governments, encourage public engagement, and litigate against irresponsible actions.
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