Ocean acidity increases noise levels.
As global warming causes the oceans to absorb more and more CO2, US scientists say they are also getting louder, with unknown effects on marine life. Dr. Richard Zeebe, associate professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii in the USA, explained that the rising acidity from the absorbed gas affects sound propagation, with certain frequencies becoming more intense.

Further increases in both the acid content as well as human-generated noise from ships, construction, seismic surveys and sonar signals could thus severely impair the cetaceans’ ability to navigate and communicate effectively.

Dr. Rima Morrell, an animal communicator and member of the United Kingdom’s Royal Geographical Society and Royal Anthropological Institute, conveyed in a telephone interview with Supreme Master Television further information about how whales in particular respond to such harmful human actions.

Dr. Rima A Morrell – Founder, Living Ark Sanctuary, Member of the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Anthropological Institute (F): Suddenly the ocean which was once a place of freedom is being restricted by these noises and these objects that humans have put there.

And mothers and babies are losing each other, and that kind of thing never used to happen. However, despite what is happening to the ocean, the whales themselves remain very balanced and they are delighted by the joy that that humans get through contact with them.
And that is indeed why they chose to actually come towards humans and leap around and surface there where humans are.

VOICE: Dr. Morrell, Dr. Zeebe and colleagues, our gratitude for this study which calls attention to a new aspect of climate change and its damaging effects. May we all unite in efforts to protect the oceans and our planet.

Highlighting the value of all animal co-inhabitants to the welfare of humanity, Supreme Master Ching Hai has often shared an understanding of the gifts they bring to our world, as in an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: The animals are truly noble, gentle beings, selfless, and in harmony with one another, the environment, and with Heaven. Their role has always been since time immemorial  to bring love and blessing to the world with their pure presence.

If we would only stop harming and torturing them and killing them, and give them a chance to fulfill their God-given mission, then our planet will be saved and will be kept in splendor.

They wait on the sidelines in full support of humans, for the day they can be our friends again, truly, not our victims. On that day of peacemaking between humans and animals, our eyes may begin to be opened to our co-inhabitants’ true magnificent roles on Earth.

http://www.starbulletin.com
/news/20091227_Ocean_noise_pollution_turns_up_with_greenhouse_gas_emissions.html
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/faculty/zeebe.html

Australia celebrates return of wetlands.
For the first time since the 1970s, large tracts of coastal wetlands devastated by acid runoff in Queensland have been successfully restored. Nearly 40 years ago when developers cleared 800 hectares of tidal wetland, a drying process began that caused the soils to release large amounts of acid and destroyed the habitat
for fish and wildlife.

In 2001, Australian scientists launched a project to bring back the region’s pristine state by gradually re-flooding the area and adding hydrated lime as needed.Thus, the same waters where once nothing could survive now host mangroves and a return of the wetlands, along with hundreds of bird species and fish.

Professor Ravi Naidu of CRC CARE, a private company assisting in the remediation services, said that this successful restoration could offer hope to the some  40 million hectares of acid coastal wetlands currently existing around the world.

A big bravo, Professor Naidu, CRC CARE, Australian government and all caring scientists for this recent eco-achievement. May we all be similarly motivated toward actions that restore the balance of our co-existence with all beings in nature.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/03/2784419.htm?site=news
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1804029/worldfirst_cleanup_of_acid_wetlands
/index.html?source=r_science

Extr News
US scientists find that surface temperatures of water bodies such as Lake Tahoe in the states of California and Nevada are warming twice as fast as the surrounding environments, bringing more invasive species, harmful algal blooms and the death of both animal and plant species.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2422319.html

The first days of 2010 in Bulgaria saw unusual weather extremes, with unseasonal record highs of up to 22 degrees Celsius followed by bitter cold as temperatures dipped to 4 degrees below zero.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=111540
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=111559

In an effort to cope with prolonged drought along with a predominantly hydroelectric power supply, the government of Venezuela institutes electricity rationing in malls and businesses.  
http://www.france24.com/en/node/4960961