Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
Transcript: I'm an ecologist, mostly a coral reef ecologist. I started out in Chesapeake Bay and went diving in the winter and became a tropical [...]
Oil slick enters Gulf loop current
From the NatGeo News: NASA satellite imagery (above) on Monday shows that the rapidly expanding oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has entered a powerful [...]
Low on gas… BP or Exxon?
Photograph by Carlos Barria, Reuters Neither. Both companies were grossly negligent in my opinion. I'll take my chances and keep driving until I [...]
Hope in a box?
It seems that one of the smaller leaks has been stopped by a valve, that's certainly good news. According to the AP, a massive concrete-and-steel [...]
Impact of the Gulf tragedy on marine life?
I can't tear myself away from the coverage of the Gulf oil tragedy. It seems the solution to stopping the flow is days if not [...]
2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
William Colgin / EPA / April 30, 2010 The Gulf, particularly on the Florida panhandle, is where I grew up on the ocean—as [...]
Message on a bottle… the Plastiki Expedition
Now I have that song going through my head, but I was a Police/Sting fanatic back in the day, so this is not a bad [...]
Resolution 2010: Walking the walk
Happy New Year! So my blog posts have been few and far between over the past few months, but I have a good excuse. For [...]
The Solution to Pollution is Dilution? No…
I've worked as a consulting environmental geoscientist since 1993 installing and sampling monitor wells, yanking countless leaking petroleum and chemical storage tanks out of the [...]
Mote treats rare sea turtle that swallowed balloon
by: Observer staff This Kemp's ridley sea turtle, nicknamed Anakin, is receiving antibiotics and fluids at Mote's Sea Turtle Hospital. An endangered Kemp’s ridley sea [...]
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 [...]