The Gulf of Maine Council presented its annual awards for innovation, creativity, and commitment to protecting the marine environment of the Gulf of Maine at an awards reception December 9. The ceremony took place during a council meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Portsmouth, NH.
The natural world has its own soundtrack, so much so that a significant body of research is dedicated to the study of its acoustics, often falling under the labels of acoustic ecology, soundscape ecology, and bioacoustics.
The Musquash Estuary, on the coast of New Brunswick west of Saint John, is a tremendously productive marine ecosystem and an unusually beautiful place. And thanks to Canada’s Oceans Act, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and the efforts of countless volunteers and donors, it will stay that way.
Office from the program’s start in 1989 through 1994. She contributed this issue’s story on the novel and effective efforts to control solid waste in Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Of course, the work of two other fine reporters represented here are familiar to readers by now. Assistant editor Catherine Colletti and Rebecca Zeiber, both of New...
This book begins with a timeline from 2007 through 2008 that traces natural and man-made environmental disasters, chronicles changes in oceans and the efforts to protect endangered species, while illustrating the connection between earth’s inhabitants and the changes that affect them. The 2009 State of the World by the Worldwatch Institute is a collaborative...
If we could travel back in time, we would return to 2009 with a much better understanding of the degradation of our oceans. Since time travel isn’t in the cards, having Callum Roberts act as our guide is the next best thing. In The Unnatural History of the Sea, the professor of marine conservation...
