This striking image of plastic pollution in the Philippines won first prize in the Ocean In Focus Conservation Photo Contest. First Prize goes to Peri…
View More Striking image of plastic pollution in PhilippinesCategory: Conservation & Environment
TGIF – Steve Earle: Gulf of Mexico
Holy Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literature
An e-mail just made me shout a barrage of expletives. In a good way. Some poor intern at Marine Science Review is probably wailing in…
View More Holy Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literatureFrom the Editor’s Desk: The Future of Deep-Sea News
If they know it, they will love it. If they love it, they will protect it. My wife, with over a decade of nonprofit experience,…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Future of Deep-Sea NewsWhy cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a…
View More Why cyclops shark grabs at our imaginationConfronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole
A new addition to my Confronting Climate Contrarianism series, much too long in waiting. Found this interesting animated gif on Andre Nantel’s G+ stream. He…
View More Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit HoleOpen Letter to My Bros at British Petroleum
Dear British Petroleum, WTF I hear you wanna be called Beyond Petroleum, now? Do you think you’re some kind of rap star or something?? Haha!…
View More Open Letter to My Bros at British PetroleumShark Hope
“Bula!” (That’s Fijian for “Yo, wassup!“) Following a successful premier this past Monday in the Fiji capital of Suva, I’m proud to bring you the…
View More Shark HopeFriday Penguin KEWTNISSS!1!!
This story at The Today Show’s Animal Tracks is just great, knitters banding together to create adorable pullovers to keep penguins warm after their feathers…
View More Friday Penguin KEWTNISSS!1!!How scientists found debris from the Japanese tsunami 700 miles off Midway
About six months ago, University of Hawaii scientists Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner mapped the likely route of debris dumped into the ocean by the…
View More How scientists found debris from the Japanese tsunami 700 miles off Midway