How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Late TGIF: What’s That Yellow Stuff?
Hat tip to Underwater Thrills for this one. I shit upon you and your family!
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Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina
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 SafinaTsunami Video Roundup
Before you watch the videos below I urge you to head over to Highly Allochthonous. Chris Rowan has two excellent posts explaining the geology behind…
View More Tsunami Video RoundupDeep-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…
View More Deep-Sea Mining is ComingSubmarine with Tank Treads
I for one welcome our new future. No longer will we have to choose between tanks and submarines when we need to go to…
View More Submarine with Tank TreadsA Blanket of Mucus
You are fish. The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly. Your defense? You cough up enough loogies…
View More A Blanket of MucusGuest Post: On wild oysters, the headlines that came 100 years too late, and turning poop-water into salty Evian
When the media got all kerfluffled about the functional extinction of wild oysters about a month ago, I asked Chris Len to write a guest…
View More Guest Post: On wild oysters, the headlines that came 100 years too late, and turning poop-water into salty EvianDead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae
About 5 days ago, a huge school of sardines found their way into King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA (near Los Angeles), used up all…
View More Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algaeSeriously, BP?
I just wanted to remind everyone that BP is still running ads like this on TV. When this came on, my mouth literally dropped and…
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