In looking over Swimming With Sharks, I came across this video of Sea Shepard ramming a Japanese whaling ship. Appalled is the best word I…
View More Sea Shepard: Only Making Matters WorseCategory: Conservation & Environment
TGIF videos: Plastic Fight Club
In my ever growing list of human induced threats to sea animals, plastic bags rank number two after commercial fisheries. Fishing harms animals directly by…
View More TGIF videos: Plastic Fight ClubSeamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…
View More Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We ThoughtExcuse me sir there is a call
Nautilus CEO: Hello Official Representative of Teck Cominco Limited: This is —-, I have some good news and some bad news. CEO: Good news first…
View More Excuse me sir there is a callYeah!
Rick notes that… US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today his intention to shelve plans passed on the final business day of the…
View More Yeah!Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind…
View More Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our ProblemsProtection Sought For Deep Water Carolinian Reefs
Forwarded this article from yesterday’s Guardian by a colleague. To preserve the reefs, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, a federal panel that regulates recreational…
View More Protection Sought For Deep Water Carolinian ReefsFear Sharks?
Tip of the fin to Penguin Wanderings.
View More Fear Sharks?How much better is Google Earth’s new seafloor
The download of Google Earth 5.0 to Mac OS X is painless, as expected. Ocean lovers will be delighted with the improved seafloor topography. It’s…
View More How much better is Google Earth’s new seafloorSomething big is happening
Today is the day of a long awaited event in San Francisco, with repercussions for Google Earth users around the globe. How do I know?…
View More Something big is happening