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A Rose by any other name might be plankton

THE VITAL OCEAN CONNECTION

February 7, 2026
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On, Good News For The Planet

Why Dying Seas Mean Disappearing Clouds
Part Two of Three: Ocean Pastures, Clouds, and Climate

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How Little We Sea

How Little We Sea

January 31, 2026
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, School of Ocean Pastures

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

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Iberian Wildfires Aug 2025

Why Have Missing Sardines Of The Iberian Peninsula Produced The Worst Wildfires In History

August 19, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Spain faces its worst wildfire season in 30 years, with 40 active blazes and more than 30,000 evacuated A Call for Ocean Restoration To Bring…

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Ocean pH

Ocean Acidification Thresholds Force A Choice – Doomsday or Bloomsday?

June 10, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

Crossing the Acid Line: Why Ocean Recovery Depends on Restoring Nature’s Mineral Dust Cycle By Russ George – Forest and Ocean Ecologist, Experimental Physicist, and…

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guanacate

The Silent Suffocation: How Rising CO₂ Levels Are Killing Insects In Their Nurseries

June 6, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

The Puzzle of Insect Decline in a Protected Paradise In Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Conservation Area, an ecological paradise, a tragic ecological mystery has been unfolding….

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honey bee

The Bees Are Speaking: Asking Us to Let Them Breathe

May 15, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

My Grandchildren’s Bees Are Dying. And the world that notices beehaves badly By blaming pesticides and parasites—we miss the real, rising threat. New physiological meta-model…

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Nature, Not Noxious Sulfur: A Market-Savvy Path to Cooling the Planet

Nature, Not Noxious Sulfur: A Market-Savvy Path to Cooling the Planet

May 9, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

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…

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Bugs are in Dire Straits

Sometime Soon You’re the Bug: How CO₂, Clean Windshields, and the Death of Rock’s Metaphor Reveal a Planet in Peril

May 3, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, News

Our Bugs Are In Dire Straits There was a time, not long ago, when your summer road trip wasn’t complete without the smeared remains of…

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Global Warming

Climate Science Has Ignored The Ocean Cooling Crisis

May 1, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

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…

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Shading the planet

The Oceans Are Dying Outside the Climate Emergency Room

April 27, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Blocking The Sun To Cool Planet Earth Might Instead Finish Off Planet Ocean. Don’t Block the Sun – Restore the Oceans First The oceans, covering…

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It's Not the Weather: The Mystery of the Warm Blob is Due to Collapse of North Pacific Ocean Plankton Pastures

It’s Not the Weather: The Mystery of the Warm Blob is Due to Collapse of North Pacific Ocean Plankton Pastures

April 23, 2025
Russ George
Antagonists, Bad News For The Planet

Truth in Science Rules, Memes Drool In science, precision and integrity are paramount. Natural phenomena—especially those as consequential as the North Pacific’s “Warm Blob”—must be…

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Fewer fish in the sea

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RESISTANCE TO OCEAN PASTURE DECLINE

April 20, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Why fishermen and fisheries managers refuse to accept collapse of fisheries is not all about them! There is no need to Bring Back The Fish,…

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Original life on Earth

CTRL-ALT-DEL: How Earth’s Original Life Cyanobacteria Are Rebooting Our Ocean Planet

April 20, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

Do we stand by and do nothing, or do we do something to preserve life as we like it? Children Help Your Mother In the…

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San Diego Tuna 1937

California Had An Ocean Emergency 60 Years Ago, But Nobody Remembers

April 10, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish

Briefing Paper: We Must Declare an Ocean Emergency to Restore California’s Fisheries The Decades-Long Collapse of California’s Ocean Health and Commercial Fisheries Seventy years ago,…

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Global Dimming

Ocean Pasture Collapse Causing Global Dimming Driver Of Climate Change

October 2, 2021
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Two Decades of Data Show That Earth Is ‘Dimming’ Earth’s global dimming reflection means less sunlight and heat is reflected back into space, that’s global…

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King Salmon

King Salmon Study Proves Their Demise Is Due To Starving At Sea

November 2, 2020
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish

Newly Published Scientific Report Declares Dangers During Freshwater Life Of Salmon Is Nothing When Compared To The Collapse of Their Ocean Pastures This exhaustive research…

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Cum salmon

North Pacific Chum Salmon Returns Absolutely Dismal

October 11, 2020
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Alaska scientists report just 15% of Chum survived their 5 years at sea to return home to spawn Chum salmon have been experiencing a steady…

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stop the fires

Stop The Fires By Restoring The West’s Rain Making Ocean Pastures

September 12, 2020
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Bring Back The Rain, A Job Only Mother Nature Can Do But She Needs Our Help Ocean plankton pasture restoration will bring back the cooling…

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sardines on a plate

Starving, Shrinking, Sardines Of Europe Just 1/2 Size Of 12 Years Ago

February 8, 2020
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Eastern Atlantic Ocean Plankton Pastures Where Sardines Once Found Plankton A Plenty Have Become Clear Blue Deserts Sardines, a staple food of Europe for more…

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Old And Newly Collected Plankton Reveals An Ocean Catastrophe

Old And Newly Collected Plankton Reveals An Ocean Catastrophe

February 5, 2020
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

HMS Challenger Sailed The World 1872-76 Following A Refit That Hammered Its Cannons Into Ocean Science Plowshares Sailing over 70,000 miles in the greatest ocean…

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