When you’re in the biodiversity conservation biz for any significant length of time, you inevitably develop a thick skin to grim pronouncements of ecosystem collapse…
View More Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral ReefsAuthor: RickMac
Honduras and Micronesia Throw Down Global Challenge to Save Sharks
In May of 2008, I first reported on how the small Micronesian nation of Palau’s then President, Tommy Remengesau Jr., had signed into law the…
View More Honduras and Micronesia Throw Down Global Challenge to Save SharksParler Heureux Comme Un Jour Des Pirates
Happy September 19, also known as Talk Like a Pirate Day! Personally, I’m rather fond of French pirates. There’s a certain elegance in being forced…
View More Parler Heureux Comme Un Jour Des PiratesNOM NOM NOM
Ahhh… Indian Summer in San Francisco. Warm, fog-free days. King salmon begin their run back into the Sacramento River. Tourist crowds thin a bit. And…
View More NOM NOM NOMManta Absconds With $5000 Camera
I simply cannot wait till Friday for this one. How I do LOVE charismatic megafauna!
View More Manta Absconds With $5000 CameraColor Me Stressed
A post on NOAA’s Coral-List (an automatic mailing list forum for online discussions and announcements pertaining to coral reef ecosystem research, conservation, and education) caught…
View More Color Me StressedResistance is Futile: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Network Effect
There’s no getting around it, science is a social enterprise. Go ahead, try and do some by your lonesome. Oh, you may putter and dial-twirl…
View More Resistance is Futile: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Network Effect