At first glance a fishing organization and a conservation organization might seem like strange bedfellows. There is often mistrust between the fishing...
Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012
* Investigation found staff moved funds within agency * NOAA wants to "reprogram" about $36 million for FY2012 * Funds t...
Neil Wagner | Posted 05.16.2012
Lee Crockett | Posted 05.16.2012
Any doctor would point out that this year's report wasn't a clean bill of health: Thirty six of America's most commercially and recreationally important ocean fish populations are still subject to overfishing, and 45 have been depleted to unhealthy levels.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.15.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Ominous s...
Posted 05.15.2012
When a strong rip current sucked two kids and their father out to sea on Sunday at a Fort Lauderdale beach, strangers formed a human chain in lieu of ...
Posted 05.11.2012
By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/11/2012 11:35 AM EDT on SPACE.com A huge sunspot that dwarfs the Earth is unleashing a series of powerful solar fl...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.10.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The deepe...
Lee Crockett | Posted 05.07.2012
Small fish such as sardines and anchovies don't get much love. But these little fish provide essential food for all the marine life that we like to catch, eat or watch.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.04.2012
WASHINGTON — A federal agency needs illusionist David Copperfield to help escape from criticism over now-canceled plans to hire a speaker to tra...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.10.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's offi...
James M. Clash | Posted 04.04.2012
There are crazies that climb into a steaming sauna, then head outside to run around the ceremonial pole marker naked as soon as the temperature dips beneath 100 below.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.04.2012
This week two seemingly unrelated but very connected events took place: freak tornadoes struck the Dallas area yesterday with unexpected ferocity and the hard-hit area's Member of Congress bragged about cutting funds for... predicting storms and reducing their impact.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.29.2012
Gardening is already a risky venture. Late spring frost, droughts, plant diseases, insect pest... the list goes on for what can and often does go wrong. But what now? Weather seems ever more extreme, more erratic.
Vikki N. Spruill | Posted 05.28.2012
You name it, and our volunteers have found it on the beach: toilet seats, washing machines, couches and, of course, the proverbial kitchen sink. This year someone even found a floating 100-pound safe. But no matter what that safe contained, I can tell you this trash is no treasure.
Posted 03.26.2012
Ever dipped a toe in salt water? Then you know that ocean waters are constantly in motion. But to get a picture of how ocean currents flow around t...
Lee Crockett | Posted 05.21.2012
Sometimes, an idea comes forward in Washington that actually brings together people who normally disagree. The Fisheries Investment and Regulatory Relief Act (FIRRA) of 2012 does that and more.
Amy Danise | Posted 05.05.2012
A natural-disaster -- and damage to your house - can leave you feeling vulnerable. Along with repairs and reconstruction, you may see a long insurance claim stretching out ahead of you.
AP | By STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 03.03.2012
RICHMOND, Va. -- When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were d...
Sarah Chasis | Posted 04.17.2012
Toxic chemicals, oil, and waste contaminate our beaches and coastal waters, hurting the tourism industry and creating dead zones like that in the Gulf of Mexico, which covered an area the size of New Jersey in 2010.
Reuters | Alastair Sharp | Posted 04.11.2012
By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphone has struggled to win over U.S. consumers but the Canad...
David Helvarg | Posted 03.24.2012
With the bitter partisanship in today's Washington it's hard to imagine the Republicans in Congress giving President Obama the power to implement even his far more modest governmental reorganization plan before next November's elections.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.20.2012
WASHINGTON — The world last year wasn't quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it co...
Carl Safina | Posted 03.12.2012
A federal law, as amended in 2007, required all U.S. fisheries to have management plans, and catch limits that would end overfishing by 2012. And look what year it is!
Matthew Spiegl | Posted 02.29.2012
The tsunami debris is real, it is out there, and we are tracking it. By every measure, it represents an environmental disaster coming toward us. So does it really matter what people call it? I think it does.
Andrew Sharpless | Posted 05.31.2012