Shark Week
It's that time again. Shark Week on Discovery Channel. I haven't been tuning in for the past few years because I'm always disappointed that they don't [...]
Reaching the Boiling Point
Global Warming - Boiling Point by Gelbspan David recently posted in the Plankton Forums about this book — I haven't read it yet, but am [...]
Can I make a difference? The power of one.
I just ordered a copy of David Helvarg's "50 Ways to Save the Ocean." The concept of the book got me thinking — what can I [...]
Great book on coral reefs and their conservation
In keeping with my recent coral reefs theme, I'm reading "The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Term with Nature on the Coral Reef" by Osha Gray [...]
Biodiversity loss and the need for an Intervention
Grist, a favorite publication of ours, recently posted a story on biodiversity loss titled "That Extincts" describing scientists' fear that a mass extinction is imminent [...]
Excess CO2 Threatens Marine Life
By Rosanne Skirble, Washington, D.C. The chemistry of the world’s oceans is changing with increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the [...]
What’s really being done?
So I spent some time this morning browsing through the UN Atlas of the Oceans — a solid hour of browsing — and I can't [...]
Is The World Ready?
For the oceans to recover from more than 50 years of daily abuse worldwide from overfishing and pollution from a million [...]