hello paul

here are some more links to the story of the death of the oceans, as i
had mentioned, i am posting this to the tweeters board too, just in
case someone has another point of view, or further thoughts....


Global Loss of Biodiversity Harming Ocean Bounty, Science

Excerpts: Environmental groups often argue that biodiversity offers
tangible
benefits to people. (...) loss of ocean populations and species has
been
accompanied by plummeting catches of wild fish, declines in water
quality, and
other costly losses. They even project that all commercial fish and
seafood
species will collapse by 2048. "It's a gloomy picture," says lead
author Boris
Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Yet the team provides a
glimmer of hope, concluding that people still have time to recoup these
ecosystem benefits if they restore biodiversity.
Source: Global Loss of Biodiversity Harming Ocean Bounty[
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/314/5800/745 ], Erik
Stokstad, DOI:
10.1126/science.314.5800.745, Science, Vol. 314. no. 5800, p. 745,
06/11/03

You can discuss this article on Articles Forum
http://www.comdig.com/topic.php?id_article=26001


here's a nationalgeographic article on this story
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061102-seafood-
threat.html

and here's how the seattle times handled it

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/
display?slug=seafood03m&date=20061103&query=dalhousie+worm+2048


and here is a link to the story on red legged kittiwakes (sorry about
that, i believe i referred to them as black legged in my earlier note

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8287



well

there you have it

you can obviously follow these leads far and wide, but the story doesnt
get any better

take care

monte



The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I
have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of
the World. Every tree sends its fibers forth in search of the Wild.

henry david thoreau
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