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The Sargasso Sea, in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, is a massive ocean ecosystem with floating forests of gold seaweed called Sargassum that harbor creatures existing nowhere else on the planet. The floating forests are a crucial safe haven for baby sea turtles and other marine life vulnerable to predators.
According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans’ policy priorities have changed in recent years. Environmental protection and global climage change are rising on the public’s agenda for the president and Congress.
To enable construction of his border wall, President Trump has ordered the blowing up of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. Contractors working for his administration are using explosives to destroy a mountain on protected lands.
A very recent report in Science Advances updates long-term effects of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the spring of two thousand ten. That explosion meant oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months straight, resulting in the worst offshore oil spill in U-S history.
President Trump has unveiled his budget proposal for the next federal fiscal year, and it’s predictably harsh for wildlife and the environment —but great for oil, gas and coal. Of course, the annual presidential budget is more of an example of his priorities than anything else. The real budget each year comes from Congress, which might or might not take up the president’s suggestions.
In a national effort to fight climate change, student governments nationwide are calling for their universities to stop investments in the fossil fuel industry.
To promote collaborative research and inform water stakeholders throughout the state, an Indiana University research team has created the Future Water science gateway, a public interactive data portal that shows users a highly detailed model of the Wabash River Basin under a number of different climate scenarios.
The Indiana Natural Resources Commission (NRC) recently approved the creation of a new nature preserve—Patoka Hills Nature Preserve in Crawford County.
NRC added ruffed grouse to the list of state endangered species of birds. Historically, ruffed grouse probably existed throughout Indiana. Populations have steadily declined and are now at less than one percent of the levels observed in the 1980s.
The Amazon Reef, off the coast of French Guiana, is an exciting new discovery that has only just begun to be understood. It has a great wealth of marine biodiversity and is threatened by oil production.
