California’s salmon fishery reopens this spring after three years of devastating closures — and the forecast is the strongest in years. But the comeback story isn’t about wet winters or dam removals. It’s about what happened on April 11, 2023, when Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano blasted iron-rich ash across the North Pacific, replenishing vital dust to the ocean pastures where salmon put on 95 percent of their body weight. From Alaska’s 119 million pink salmon to California’s record jack returns, the 2023 ocean-entry cohorts are coming home strong everywhere. The volcano told us what the medicine is. The question is whether we’ll act before the next silent years return.
The “most important graph in the world” now has 2025 data. The news is worse than ever. Over just 25 years of satellite observation, the…
What is needed now is the sustained commitment to answer — not when a volcano happens to erupt, not when an Asian dust storm happens to cross the Pacific at the right moment in the right season — but deliberately, continuously, season after season, until the rivers from the Klamath to the Kenai run dark with life again.
“I am haunted by waters” And at long last I have good news for those of us who love Atlantic Salmon and share a particular…
Long before forests covered the continents, long before animals walked the land, long before humans appeared, these tiny organisms were already transforming the planet, lovingly preparing it for all.
This is the story about how good things begin. I describe an unconventional partnership — a rock star, a schooner, and a scientist intent on testing a simple but profound idea: that dust from the land feeds life in the sea.
Ocean pasture restoration flips the old “drop in the ocean” metaphor on its head. By restoring missing mineral dust with nature-based techniques, we revive marine ecosystems, combat acidification, and cool the climate—proving every single drop and mote of dust can be made to truly count.
Restoring the Albedo of Cooling Clouds Needs Restored Fresh Air Not Air Pollution As policymakers, financiers, and tech leaders search for multi-billion dollar business plans…
Lost ocean cooling pump has heated the planet more than greenhouse gases! “If you lose your air conditioner in a heatwave, your house doesn’t just…