Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay discusses the proposed plan to offset the
dramatic decline in the bay’s native oysters by introducing disease-resistant reproductive
Suminoe oysters from Asia. It suggests this move should be delayed until
more is known about the environmental risks, ...
For an unknown reason, the Steller sea lion population in Alaska has declined by 80% over the past three decades. In 2001, the National Research Council began a study to assess the many hypotheses proposed to explain the sea lion ...
As a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), and within that legislation, the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI) was born. This report assesses ...
