Marine extinctions: What’s to be done?,News,The use of chemical dispersants to combat oil spills at sea: A review of practice and research needs in Europe,The Mar Menor lagoon (SE Spain): A singular natural ecosystem threatened by human activities,The phosphoric acid leak from the wreck of the MV Ece in the English Channel in 2006: Assessment with a ship of opportunity, an operational ecosystem model and historical data,Variability in invasion risk for ballast water exchange on the Scotian Shelf of eastern Canada,The nature and extent of organisms in vessel sea-chests: A protected mechanism for marine bioinvasions,Short term impact of planktonic mucilage aggregates on macrobenthos along the Istrian rocky coast (Northern Adriatic, Croatia),Biodegradation and environmental behavior of biodiesel mixtures in the sea: An initial study,Chemical contamination of a coral reef by the grounding of a cruise ship in Bermuda,Accumulation and transport behaviour of 241americium, 60cobalt and 134cesium by eggs of the spotted dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula,Physical, chemical and microbiological characterization of the intertidal sediments of Pereque Beach, Guarujá (SP), Brazil,Effects of exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons upon the metabolism of the common sole Solea solea,Metallothionein in intestine of red mullet, Mullus barbatus as a biomarker of copper exposure in the coastal marine areas,Medium-term responses of rocky bottoms to sewage discharges from a deepwater outfall in the NE Atlantic,Long-term biological effects of petroleum residues on fiddler crabs in salt marshes,Occurrence of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls in the brain of cetaceans stranded along the Japanese coast,Heavy metal contamination in western Xiamen Bay sediments and its vicinity, China,Effects of chemical dispersants and mineral fines on crude oil dispersion in a wave tank under breaking waves,A nutrient loading budget for Biscayne Bay, Florida, Can dynamite-blasted reefs recover? A novel, low-tech approach to stimulating natural recovery in fish and coral populations,Antioxidant responses to variations in dissolved oxygen of Scapharca inaequivalvis and Tapes philippinarum, two bivalve species from the lagoon of Venice,Methylmercury bioconcentration in muscle tissue of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from the Adour estuary (Bay of Biscay, France),Endocrine-disrupting phenols in selected rivers and bays in the Philippines,Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organic matter quality and meiofauna in Galician sandy beaches, 6 months after the Prestige oil-spill,Assessment of persistent organochlorine residues in sediments of Hadramout coastal area, Gulf of Aden, Yemen,Anthropogenic contributions to heavy metal distributions in the surface sediments of Masan Bay, Korea,Biokinetics of paralytic shellfish toxins in the green-lipped mussel, Perna viridis,Comments on Carpenter, A., 2007 “The Bonn Agreement Aerial Surveillance Programme: Trends in North Sea Oil Pollution 1986–2004”, Marine Pollution Bulletin, vol. 54, 2007, pp. 149–163,Response by Dr. Angela Carpenter