Ocean & Nature
What does it feel like to lose your home, your community, and your entire nation?
This is a cross-post from The Climate Reality Project. What does it feel like when you realize the place you call home may disappear forever? The people of the Central Pacific island... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured, Ocean & Nature, Video · Tags environmental vulnerability, global warming, Kiribati, refugees, sea level rise
Freeing the Elwha: Witnessing the Largest Dam Removal Project in History
This past weekend, large excavators began deconstructing two dams along the Elwha river in Olympic National Park. The project is the largest dam removal project to date and one of the... Read More
Category Featured, Ocean & Nature, Sustainable Development · Tags conservation, dam, fishing, hydropower, restoration, salmon, Washington State
Cargill Salt Pond Development a Bad Idea for San Francisco Bay
On a recent trip to Coyote Hills, a park on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, with a class of kindergarteners, we learned about marshland and a bit about salt ponds. Standing... Read More
Category Featured, Ocean & Nature, Sustainable Development · Tags California, environmental vulnerability, restoration, San Francisco, sea level rise, wetlands
New Website Highlights Links Between Surfing and Environmental Issues
The Greener Blue is a new website focused on the intersection between surf culture and sustainability. “As advocates of green living, we want to provide the surf culture with... Read More
Sea Level Rise a Threat to U.S. Coastal Cities
This map shows where increases in sea level could affect New Orleans, Virginia Beach, Va., Miami, Tampa, Fla., New York and Washington, D.C. The colors indicate areas along the coast... Read More
Category Climate Change, gRound-Up, Ocean & Nature · Tags adaptation, global warming, sea level rise
Managed Retreat from Rising Sea Levels Begins at Surfers Point
What is likely the first example of what lies ahead for many coastal communities worldwide, Ventura, CA is beginning its retreat from the ocean. Sea levels are projected to rise at... Read More
California Council Adopts Sea Level Rise Projections
Projected SLR in Monterey, CA (in blue) The California Ocean Protection Council, has released a draft resolution that calls for state agencies to account for sea level rise (SLR) of... Read More
Book review: Poaching Land and People in the Name of Conservation
Mark Dowie. 2009. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. MIT Press. Outside the 80,000-acre Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National... Read More
Report Details the Black Market Bluefin Trade
Check out this investigative report that details how and why Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks have plummeted in the past few decades. A combination of lax oversight, fraud, and illegal... Read More
International Biodiversity Conference Deemed a Success
A juvenile Blue-sided Tree Frog - IUCN Red List (Photo: Flickr user leeinhisroom) A recent survey in the United Kingdom posed the question, “What is Biodiversity?” The majority... Read More
Category Featured, Ocean & Nature · Tags conservation, extinction, Japan
NRDC Documentary About Ocean Acidification
Check out this short and effective documentary about ocean acidification, an issue that we are just really beginning to grasp the gravity of. The video is the work of the Natural Resources... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured, Ocean & Nature, Video · Tags carbon dioxide, emissions, global warming, ocean acidification
A Jungle Trek in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia
A very, very large tree (Photo: S. Neil Larsen) What I thought a rainforest was “supposed” to be like has been shaped by years of watching nature documentaries and various... Read More
Category Featured, Ocean & Nature · Tags conservation, deforestation, Indonesia
Eager Beavers Enlisted to Fight Climate Change
Photo by Flickr user stevehdc With climate change expected to lead to longer and drier summers here in Washington State, the timing of spring and summer runoff from mountains has become... Read More
Category Climate Change, gRound-Up, Ocean & Nature · Tags adaptation, drought, global warming, restoration, Washington State
