New England cod fishery collapses as rapidly warming water and overfishing take toll – ‘The Gulf of Maine cod stock is in the worst shape we have seen in the 40 years that we have been monitoring it’

Environment News Weekly Featured Welcome to the Before It's News Weekly Featured 5 Stories. We deliver the most important and interesting space news stories to your inbox. Be the first among your friends and colleagues to get the scoop on the stories everyone should be talking about today. New England cod fishery collapses as rapidly warming water and overfishing take toll – ‘The Gulf of Maine cod stock is in the worst shape we have seen in the 40 years that we have been monitoring it’ CONTRIBUTOR: . Desdemona Despair By Chris Mooney 29 October 2015 (Washington Post) – A new scientific study says that rapidly warming waters off the New England coast have had a severe consequence — the collapse of a cod fishery that saw too many catches even as overall cod numbers declined due to... Click here to read, "New England cod fishery collapses as rapidly warming water and overfishing take toll – ‘The Gulf of Maine cod stock is in the worst shape we have seen in the 40 years that we have been monitoring it’"... ....................................................................................................................... NOAA Scientists Refuse To Comply With House Science Committee Subpoena CONTRIBUTOR: . Despite receiving a subpoena from the House of Representatives, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continues to defy the summons to explain itself regarding a controversial climate study it had released back in June. An aide to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology said the NOAA has... Click here to read, "NOAA Scientists Refuse To Comply With House Science Committee Subpoena"... ....................................................................................................................... Russian media take climate cue from skeptical Putin – ‘There is no global warming, this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia CONTRIBUTOR: . Desdemona Despair By Andrey Kuzmin, with additional reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Bruce Wallace and Kevin Liffey29 October 2015 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Wildfires crackled across Siberia this summer, turning skies ochre and sending up enough smoke from burning pines to blot out satellite views of the 400-mile-long Lake Baikal.... Click here to read, "Russian media take climate cue from skeptical Putin – ‘There is no global warming, this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia"... ....................................................................................................................... Putin Believes Global Warming ‘Is A Fraud To Restrain Developing Nations’ CONTRIBUTOR: . The Russian president believes that "there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia," says Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and critic of Putin. "That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass... Click here to read, "Putin Believes Global Warming ‘Is A Fraud To Restrain Developing Nations’"... ....................................................................................................................... People power is preventing the expansion of the tar sands CONTRIBUTOR: . People power beat Big Oil again this week when Shell announced that it was cancelling its Carmon Creek tar sands project. Shell said the decision to cancel the project (and thus take a US$2 billion hit to its bottom line) “reflects current uncertainties, including the lack of infrastructure to move... Click here to read, "People power is preventing the expansion of the tar sands"... ....................................................................................................................... Vast Amazon wildfire destroys forest in Brazil and threatens uncontacted tribe – ‘We will suffer greatly without our forest’ CONTRIBUTOR: . Desdemona Despair By Jonathan Watts30 October 2015 (Rio de Janeiro) – Brazilian rangers, firefighters and indigenous communities are battling against a wildfire that has blazed for two months and devastated some of the last Amazonian forest in the northern state of Maranhão, including part of the territory of an uncontacted... Click here to read, "Vast Amazon wildfire destroys forest in Brazil and threatens uncontacted tribe – ‘We will suffer greatly without our forest’"... ....................................................................................................................... Are Your Children Roundup-Ready? CONTRIBUTOR: . Use of the Herbicide Glyphosate Has Skyrocketed Since the 1990sSource: ThinkStockPhotos.comFor thousands of years, children ate the same food their parents ate when they were children. In the United States today, this is no longer the case. Most dramatically, the proliferation of the use of the herbicide glyphosate, made possible... Click here to read, "Are Your Children Roundup-Ready?"... ....................................................................................................................... Video: Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat CONTRIBUTOR: . Desdemona Despair By David L. Chandler26 October 2015 (MIT News) – Within this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a result of climate change, according to a study of high-resolution climate models. The research reveals details of a business-as-usual... Click here to read, "Video: Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat"... ....................................................................................................................... Don't blame global warming for third-largest ozone hole over Antarctica CONTRIBUTOR: . False-color view of total ozone over the Antarctic pole.A giant hole in our ozone layer, larger than Russia and Canada combined, has appeared over Antarctica, but it's not the result of global warming. On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) blamed the record-sized hole in our ozone layer as a... Click here to read, "Don't blame global warming for third-largest ozone hole over Antarctica"... ....................................................................................................................... Another Example of a Federal Agency Operating by Fiat CONTRIBUTOR: . Capital Press EditorialCritics say the head of the National Organic Program is keeping secret the names of experts used to formulate policy, has failed to vigorously enforce regulations and punish violators, and is acting at the behest of large corporations.We’ve grown used to regulators in the Obama administration taking arbitrary,... Click here to read, "Another Example of a Federal Agency Operating by Fiat"... ....................................................................................................................... Get Free Before It's News Headlines For Your Blog or Website  You can display Before It's News headlines on your blog or site with our new easy-to-use news widget. It's 100% free and takes just a minute or two to install. Choose from our diverse Featured headlines options or select  any one of our many targeted subject categories. No matter what your topic, you're bound to find a Before It's News widget that's right for your site. 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