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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Thursday, December 28, 2000 - 3:26 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

For those of you interested in the stress on the
corals of Bonaire and the Caribbean in recent
years (and the rise in the incidence of asthma
in the US) I recommend a look at the USGS
web page about the study of the transport of
African dust to the western hemisphere at

African dust and Caribbean corals
.

 There are several links to further reading. See
also "African Dust and the Demise of
Caribbean Coral Reefs", Eugene A. Shinn et
al., Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No.
19, pp. 3029-3032.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ellen Muller on Thursday, December 28, 2000 - 9:54 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks,Glen,that was very interesting.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kerri Freeman on Thursday, December 28, 2000 - 10:31 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks for the reference.Often forget you guys in the U.S. have such a wealth of informative sites. This one will get 'bookmarked'.Be interesting to see if the theory works out. Did you see the 'Discovery'expedition of Andros Reef a while back. Worth a quick look if you haven't.Bottom line is:no big fish left in the area under examination.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dara Walter on Thursday, December 28, 2000 - 10:46 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Great link, Glen, thanks. An interesting book for anyone with a scientific bent - "The Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen (Island biogeography in an age of extinction). Covers a wide range of factors influencing the demise of a variety of creatures using the fragile island ecosystem as a model for study.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By camerieresonia on Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 2:24 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Glen I was very shocked by the destruction that I have see, I hope that the spirits of influent people, like President or political ecologists can change this situation. And the pollution have to stop because they are cargos and they put in the seaswaters oils and soaps of cleaning boats. They doesn't respect the sea because they don't want to pay the reatreatment of the cleaning. Also in Europe it is like this. For example, in the North coast of Belgium we have a inspectors services, they inspect and control badboats directly by air in the sea,... I don't know if you have the same problems of pollution in the USA and AFRICA ??? SONIA

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By camerieresonia on Thursday, November 22, 2001 - 1:25 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Glen, do you know that "the protocol of KYOTO is accept now, so I hope that slowly the spirits are changing... SONIA

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Friday, November 23, 2001 - 11:23 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

As I understand it, many nations signed the final report of the Kyoto Protocal but very few have ratified it in their own country.

The difference is that signing the protocal is a name on paper (and the world thinks that the country is going to do the things the protocol contains) and ratification by a country's government means that country really intends to do the things because now it is part of their law. It appears to me that many countries signed the report to get the good publicity, with no intention of ratifying the protocol.

We certainly do have pollution problems in the US though we have laws that limit it. Many areas have been very much cleaned up over the last years: fish reappearing in formerly deadly waters and swimming areas now open again, the cleaning up of badly polluted industrial site. Still have a ways to go though.

 


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