Collapse of most wild seafood populations by 2048

A recent report in the journal Science estimates that if our current overfishing and pollution of the ocean continues, almost all seafood populations will collapse by 2048. A collapse of a fishery occurs when over 90% of a population is lost making it very difficult to recover, prone to extinction due to the small population sizes and very difficult to harvest economically.  read more »

Is Global Warming really happening? Should you care? Can you do anything about it anyway?

The short answer is a big yes to all three. The vast majority of scientists have agreed for the past decade that global warming is happening. Why you should care is that even small changes to average temperatures on the earth trigger tremendous, sometimes irreversible changes to our weather and sea levels.  read more »

More than 200 chemicals including industrial solvents, pesticides, dyes, gasoline and diesel exhaust, cosmetics ingredients, hormones, pharmaceuticals and a chemical in chlorinated drinking water cause breast cancer in animal tests, according to a compilation of scientific reports published today by the American Cancer Society. There is a growing body of evidence linking environmental contaminants to breast cancer, the leading killer of U.S. women in their late 30s to early 50s. Researchers concluded that reducing exposure to the compounds could prevent many women from developing the disease.  read more »

Runoff from cities is the fastest growing source of pollution to our rivers, lakes and oceans and is harming the habitat of fish, coral and marine mammals. Santa Monica California has demonstrated alternatives to this pollution with an innovative plant that recycles polluted runoff from its streets, avoiding impacting its coastal waters. The city also requires new construction to limit the amount of concrete and asphalt that stops rainwater from penetrating the ground and causes it to run off into the surrounding water bodies impacting their water quality.  read more »