NOAA today announces the beginning of a 90 day review of 2006 established Southern Resident Killer Whale critical habitat. “We find that the petition [submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity] to revise critical habitat, viewed in the context of information readily available in our files, presents substantial scientific information …
March 2014 was the fourth warmest ever recorded in 135 years of global temperature monitoring. On average, the globe was 1.3 F warmer than normal. Siberia was a whopping 9 degrees F warmer and Denmark and Norway were up by 7 degrees F. No so here, you say? You’d be …
As the next to follow suit and release a plan for Arctic activities, earlier this week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published their plan for the Arctic. The plan focuses mainly on the missions of NOAA – weather, climate, and resource management. The full report is here: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/NOAAarcticactionplan2014.pdf The …
A report released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) says that every federal dollar spent produces a return on investment of $7-9. Habitat restoration projects generated $326 million dollars in economic activity nation wide. This is without inclusion of potential additional benefits of ecological services, improved recreational opportunities, …