Sink or Sunk? Planners Hope Ship Reef Isn't Dead in Water: Organizers of a Project to Sink a Ship and Turn It into a Reef Face a Deadline to Raise Funds
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By Cammy Clark, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--KEY WEST -- In 1996, dive boat captain Joe Weatherby started combing through files of 500 mothballed military ships looking for the perfect one to sink and turn into the Keys' largest artificial reef.
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By Nicholas Azzara, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 3--MANATEE -- An answer to the county's boat launch shortage could lie in the heart of a proposed community of 1,100 homes near Anna Maria Island.
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A novel plan to stop up a deadly upwelling of mud has the potential for added disaster, experts say.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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By Helen Logan  A report adding weight to the campaign to build a pounds 300m deep sea container terminal on Teesside has been submitted to planning chiefs.
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Stelios, fondateur de Stelmar Shipping, et Polys envoient un courrier aux actionnaires de Stelmar. Voici le texte d&#39;un courrier rÃ©digÃ© pour le compte de Stelios Haji-Ioannou, fondateur de Stelmar Shipping
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By Tom Pelton and Dennis O'Brien, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 3--By 2100, Baltimore's Harborplace could be under water at high tide. Ocean City might be frequently evacuated because of Atlantic storms.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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By Andrew L. Wang, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 14--Worried employees of a plant on Waukegan Harbor turned out by the dozens Wednesday night to vent their frustrations and try to get answers about a dredging project that could mean the elimination of their jobs.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Problems on the Great Lakes are approaching the tipping point and environmentalists need to intensify their push for Congress to fund restoration efforts on the lakes.
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 21--The legal battle over ballast water from oceangoing ships escalated Thursday as eight environmental groups started a lawsuit against shippers under the national Clean Water Act.
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A Balinese project uses low-wattage electrical current to stimulate the regrowth of a badly damaged coral reef. It's the world's largest coral nursery ever built using this technology, in an area where most of the world's coral species live.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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Private ferry operators need public-funding lifelines to stay afloat, City Council officials warned yesterday. Alarmed by service cutbacks announced recently by the financially troubled NY