One of my visions for the future is my wife and I enjoying full-bodied French and Italian wines in our villa overlooking the Mediterranean. In…
View More Not Club Med But Club DeadCategory: Conservation & Environment
Gorton's Law
Over at the World’s Fair… Anyway, this meme asks that you come up with your own scientific eponym. What’s that exactly? Well, first read this…
View More Gorton's LawIf you are in the neighborhood and want to see a ship sink
The much loved Texas Clipper will be sunk on this Thursday as part of the ships to reef program. Those from Texas A&M Galveston will…
View More If you are in the neighborhood and want to see a ship sinkOcean Fertilization…Not So Fast!
This just on the wire from ETC… In a shot across the bows of geoengineering companies, the London Convention (the International Maritime Organization body that…
View More Ocean Fertilization…Not So Fast!Pissing in the Ocean
Ocean Nourishment Corporation of Sydney, Australia just got the green light to dump several hundred tons of industrially-produced urea in to the Sulu Sea between…
View More Pissing in the OceanWill Iron Fertilization Work?
In the words of Rick at MBSL&S So let’s just say you have a couple hundred thousand metric tons of iron filings laying around the…
View More Will Iron Fertilization Work?Plastic Or Not?
Beth Terry over at Fake Plastic Fish caught an error in this post about Evert Fresh Produce Bags. I was reading the list of plastic…
View More Plastic Or Not?The Deep Ocean May Not Save Us
The deep ocean (deeper than 1km) is a CO2 sink. Deep water masses are cold and dense which minimizes vertical mixing with overlying ocean layers.…
View More The Deep Ocean May Not Save UsOne More Reason to Conserve the Ocean
Abel Pharmboy over at Terra Sigillata has a nice write up about Therapeutic Natural Products from the Sea. The ocean fauna is the potential host…
View More One More Reason to Conserve the OceanLoggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fishery
Industrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries.
View More Loggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fishery