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…
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
California’s Vanishing Sardines, Salmon, and Seabirds Are Suffering From The Same Cause As Wildfires
A Call for Ocean Restoration To Bring Back the Cooling Clouds, Rain, Water, Fish, and Wildlife! California’s Twin Crises: Collapse of Plants at Sea and…
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…
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…
12+++ Steps To Remember About Why You Should Cherish A Healthy Ocean Our oceans, 71% of our Blue Planet make 90% of our oxygen and…
Don’t Dodge Reality By Blaming The Blob Subtitle: How Replenished Ocean Pastures Will Break Through Warm Blobs, And Restore Ocean Productivity And Bring Back The…
In 2013, 2015, and 2017 Alaska experienced Pink Salmon returns so extraordinary that they defied all odds, it was made to happen on purpose! We…
On this Easter Day it’s good to think of life and love In the great story of life, the virtue of communication is not merely…
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…
Bringing Back The Fish The European Union’s Nature Restoration Law, enacted in August 2024 with €8.3 billion annually, is a bold step to heal its…
Bring Back The Fish In a bold, inspiring move, the European Union is healing its natural world with the Nature Restoration Law. Enacted in August…
Abstract: Exploring the notion of ocean plankton pastures are the pinnacle of ecological complexity on this Blue Planet. I propose that their nearly infinite complexity…