Month: September 2013

Shellfish woes

Posted on The Star Online: 24 Sep 2013 — By Craig Welsh — Oysters are at risk from ocean acidification, as are farmers’ livelihoods.   IT appears at the end of a palm tree-lined drive, not far from piles of hardened black lava: the newest addition to the US Pacific

Ocean of change

Posted on the Eugene Register Guard: 22 Sep 2013 — By Diane Dietz — Changing chemistry of seawater poses lethal threat to marine life   Dwight Collins, owner of Newman’s Fish Co., shucks Pacific oysters he sells at his shop in Eugene. The oysters—these from Yaquina Bay—could be the proverbial