The Living Sentient Chemistry of Immobility Part Three: Our Peace Treaty With Mother Nature Part Three of a three-part series on the chemical wars and…
The Living Sentient Chemistry of Immobility Part Two: Nature’s Sentient Wars *Part Two of a three-part series on the chemical wars and peace treaties between…
On The Living Sentient Chemistry of Immobility Part One: Sentience In Life Standing Still Part One of a three-part series on the chemical wars and…
The 2013 Alaska salmon boom wasn’t a mystery—it was a message. When ocean pastures are restored, they unleash vast phytoplankton blooms that capture hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO₂, drive deep ocean sequestration, and even cool the planet through clouds and albedo. The salmon are not the product—they are the proof.
Since 1950, the world’s ocean pastures have lost between 50% and 70% of their phytoplankton. System-wide collapse of the base of life in the blue…
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.
Fifty-seven leading climate scientists admit they can’t explain why Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled. The answer isn’t in ship exhaust plumes — it’s in the slow-motion collapse of the ocean’s own cloud-making biology. The real sulfur story has been hiding in plain sight, ignored by a scientific culture that rewards the legible over the existential. We’ve already proven the fix exists.
Our Deadly Drought of Dust: How the Hegemony of Grass Is Killing Our Blue Planet For 71% of Earth, the drought that matters most isn’t…
When the Dust Blows, the Salmon Grow Why Replenishing Nature’s Missing Dust Is the Key to Restoring North Pacific Fisheries The image above shows the…
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 – the Trillion Dollar Climate Change Solution That Costs Mere Millions And Brings Back The Fish – Part Three of Three: Ocean Pastures, Clouds, and Climate
Why Dying Seas Mean Disappearing Clouds
Part Two of Three: Ocean Pastures, Clouds, and Climate
In the summer of 2023, every temperature record on Earth shattered. The world’s best climate models—the ones that have reliably tracked warming for fifty years—suddenly couldn’t account for what the thermometers were showing.
We see the shoreline. We see the surface. And we imagine we see the bottom of the ocean. We see or even imagine very little of the in-between
Inspired by the Persian Poet Rumi (born September 1203) Didn’t I Tell You? (The Ocean Speaks, Now) Didn’t I tell you I am the Ocean…
Effete Weaponization of AI By Petulant Pundits Assisted Intelligence—not “artificial” intelligence—is the only honest way to describe the technology reshaping the world today. Yet the…
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.