Morning Ecology 10 July 2008: It's a watery world edition

• World Ports Tackle Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Terra Daily)
• New Federal Rules Proposed for Offshore Fish Farms, Energy (Associated Press)
• In A Changing Climate, Cities Worsen Water Quality (ES & T)
• The Old Man Who Farms With The Sea (Los Angeles Times)
• Water-Powered Cars: Too Good To Be True? (Treehugger)

Image: Working container port in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Taken by me for East River Day on 21 June 2007; at the time I was editor of Waterwire News for the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.

It's merely adequate in terms of composition (at the time, I was on a moving water taxi with a digital point-and-shoot), but the view surprises people who didn't realize that Brooklyn still has a working port, or that in fact, New York City is still a working port city.