Healthy Oceans archives
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Pacific Underwater: Seabirds in May
May 22, 2012As you read this, a cool Pacific breeze is blowing through the tufted hair grass that covers tiny Triangle Island, Northwest of Vancouver Island. Just below the grasses and the wind, hundreds of thousands of birds have just laid hundreds of thousands of eggs in hundreds of thousands of burrows. More »
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Gulf oil spill devastating for jobs and economy
May 11, 2012Can our economy survive a collapse in fisheries caused by an oil spill? More »
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Demystifying "organic" farmed salmon: Is there such a thing?
May 10, 2012While some types of farm-raised seafood (such as farmed shellfish) follow more stringent guidelines to protect the health of our oceans, the "organic" salmon farming standard varies little from conventional open-net cage practices. More »
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Oil spill off the coast of the Great Bear Rainforest
May 4, 2012There are 700 tonnes of heavy oil in a sunken U.S. Army ship under the site of the oil slick. More »
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Twenty years later: Have ecosystems recovered from Exxon Valdez?
May 2, 2012We are at the two-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and some recent accounts paint a pretty bleak picture of the state of the Gulf of Mexico. The immediate... More »
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Pacific Underwater Calendar: Kelp forests in April
April 27, 2012Like a forest of trees, a kelp forest provides food, shelter and habitat for an interdependent web of creatures, great and small. More »
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You want cancer with that? Examining the BP oil spill aftermath
April 21, 2012The Gulf of Mexico was irreparably assaulted in spring 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore drilling rig, exploded, killing 11 workers. The vessel sank on April 22, leaving the... More »
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Two trillion dollars = massive market failure
April 4, 2012Two trillion dollars is an astounding amount of money. Imagine this: The day Julius Caesar is born you are given $2 trillion. Then, you manage to spend $2 million every... More »
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Ocean acidification from Antarctica to Mount Vesuvius — Where do we go from here?
March 30, 2012Although it's not easy to imagine, the changes brought about by ocean acidification will undoubtedly reverberate through food webs, bringing extensive change to fisheries and aquaculture. More »
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David Suzuki Foundation works with B.C. bottom trawl industry to reduce habitat impacts
March 28, 2012Today is a landmark day in the history of the B.C. trawl industry and marks a precedent-setting change in how the groundfish bottom trawl fishery operates in B.C.'s rich ocean environment. More »
