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From Lawn to Line: Home Pesticides Poisoning West Coast Salmon

From Lawn to Line: Home Pesticides Poisoning West Coast Salmon | OUR OCEANS NEED US | Scoop.it

West Coast salmon, an already threatened species, are the victim of a new, potentially detrimental threat according to a recent evaluation conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service.

NOAA’s Fisheries Services identified the culprits as three pesticides commonly used in more than 100 pesticide products for home and agricultural applications including the treatment of soy, cotton, corn, grapes and Christmas trees: triflurali, oryzalin and pendimenthalin.

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Oceans have acidified more in the last 200 years than they did in the previous 21,000 years, claims new climate change research

Oceans have acidified more in the last 200 years than they did in the previous 21,000 years, claims new climate change research | OUR OCEANS NEED US | Scoop.it
In some regions, acidity levels rose faster in the last two centuries than it did in the previous 21,000 years, a study from the University of Hawaii has shown.
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