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Will the future mean a shortage of fish? (NOTE: You can save $3 on our beautiful crop circle calendar if you use coupon 2012 by September 23). Oceanographers have returned from a trip to examine the scope and size of this year’s "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and have measured it currently to be about 3,300 square miles, or about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Some researchers anticipate it becoming much larger.
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Pollution isn’t good for us, and if you were exposed to organophosphate pesticides while pregnant, your kids may have lower IQs. One of these pesticides is malathion, which is commonly used on houseplants.

And FISH are suffering from pollution too! A new study finds that zebra fish exposed to a commonly-used flame retardant called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) during early development can cause developmental malformations, changes in behavior and death, and if this happens to zebra fish, it’s likely to effect some of those lovely fish we like to eat as well.
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Milk may be dangerous in Japan, but are fish and chicken safe for US to eat? They’re great diet foods, and fish is usually very healthy (depending on how you cook it), but we keep hearing that some kinds of fish contain mercury. Mercury contamination, a worldwide environmental problem, has been called "public enemy No.1" in California’s San Francisco Bay, and scientists have finally discovered where all that mercury is coming from.
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