But I wonder: If Westerners had ignored Japan’s whaling, would its whaling have died sooner, of its own internal economic problems? via Did Outsider Pressure…
View More Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl SafinaCategory: Industry & Government
Deep-Sea Mining is Coming
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Van Dover compared the deep sea to America’s Wild West and cautioned that wildlife losses could be similar…
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Add this to your growing list of Earth going to hell Enjoy your shucking while it lasts. Wild oysters are now “functionally extinct” in many…
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A week ago I received an email that sparked this post. An Appeal to the Public to Not Visit Iceland Until Icelandic Whaling Stops Online environmental…
View More From The Editor’s Desk: Is Icelandic Whaling Bad?Oil Spill Blame For Everyone!
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill just released a key chapter from their final report. Long story short…everyone is to blame. The…
View More Oil Spill Blame For Everyone!Oil Companies’ New Deep-Sea Inspection Crew
It appears that the oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico have found fresh, new expertise in deep-sea rig inspection enlisting the help of sperm…
View More Oil Companies’ New Deep-Sea Inspection CrewWhere’s the Ocean Love?
DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems…
View More Where’s the Ocean Love?F U Pacific Sperm Whales
Not so smug now are you! Not so big and charismatic now! Your just a free living fat sack of pollutants! Suck on that! A…
View More F U Pacific Sperm WhalesProviding a Legal Framework for the High Seas
Below is a TED talk by Kristina Gjerde, a legal advisor to IUCN. Kristina has been a tireless advocate and legal scholar of international maritime…
View More Providing a Legal Framework for the High SeasFrom the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment
Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment