Ocean & Nature
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
Sylvia Earle VIDEO: Into the Blue Ocean
Sylvia Earle at the Tennessee Aquarium from Nature Films Network on Vimeo. An Ocean Advocate extraordinaire provides a wonderful and insightful talk about the state of the Oceans,... Read More
Deep Ocean Warming is Leading to Sea Level Rise
Photo credit: NOAAA NOAA news release draws attention to an upcoming report in the Journal of Climate regarding substantial warming in the deep ocean that has been recorded over the... Read More
Coral Reefs Feeling the Heat
Photo: Scott MacKenzie This year’s record heat has been devastating to coral reefs, and scientists are worried about widespread die-offs with devastating implications for marine... Read More
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Third Lowest Minimum in Satellite Record
Daily Arctic sea ice extent on September 10, 2010 was 4.76 million square kilometers (1.84 million square miles). The orange line shows the 1979 to 2000 median extent for that day.... Read More
“Since we’re here swimming in the drink”
The Triathlon at Pacific Grove This past weekend I completed an Olympic distance triathlon. My first. Highly recommend it. What happened immediately following was also memorable: I... Read More
Category Featured, Ocean & Nature · Tags conservation, fishing, tuna
Tuna and Salmon in the news
There are some interesting developments in the world of fish this week: The FDA is nearly ready to approve the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. AquAdvantage... Read More
Biodiversity conservation can reduce poverty, study finds
Shameless self-promotion: The knowledge review I had been working on for The Nature Conservancy has been published. Does Conserving Biodiversity Work to Reduce Poverty: A State of Knowledge... Read More
Category gRound-Up, Ocean & Nature, Sustainable Development · Tags agriculture, conservation, deforestation, fishing, food security, REDD, reforestation
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