The U.S. Department of Agriculture will purchase $20 million in canned Alaska pink salmon for nationwide distribution to hungry Americans, with a suggestion from Sen….
Puffins are seabirds that are especially wonderful and beautiful to watch. They frequent the ocean far from shore where they feed on all manner of…
The International Court of Justice finally banned the hunting of whales by Japan earlier this year. It even looked for a few weeks that the…
More than 30 years ago John Martin unravelled the vital role of iron, that arrives with dust in the wind, has on ocean plankton blooms….
In a new paper in the science journal PNAS the long known role of seabirds is reported anew. Seabirds flock to plankton blooms and in…
Many people have asked if the Atlantic Salmon might benefit from the restoration of their ocean pastures. Absolutely yes and recovery will likely be dramatic…
Projections from throughout the ocean and fisheries science venues are advising another miracle is in the offing This years Fraser River Sockeye Salmon runs will…
Tiny ocean pasture mesopelagic fish historically grossly underestimated now shown to be 30 times greater biomass. Alone they outweigh all other animal life on Earth.
On Halloween, passengers aboard the B.C. ferry between Galiano Island and Tsawwassen were treated to the sight of a superpod of about 1,000 Pacific white-sided…
Historic numbers of salmon return to rivers and streams from Alaska to California. The fish came back, they just couldn’t stay away following the marvellous restoration of their ocean pasture by a man many proclaim is a geoengineer but others regard as a combination of Johnny Appleseed, John Muir, and Henry Thoreau.
Deserts ‘greening’ from rising CO2 High and rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have been greening the world’s arid regions over the past 30 years…
US President Obama on has scheduled a Tuesday revelation of his program to address high and rising CO2 emissions. In a video press release Saturday…
Restoring Ocean Pastures, It Just Works! In a stunning affirmation of the utility of ocean pasture restoration a Canadian government research team has reported the…
One of the most important groups of phytoplankton Ehux now has a place in the worlds genomic library. An international consortium has unravelled and sequenced…
Egyptian fish farmers 4,000 years ago raised tilapia in ponds along the Nile. Two thousand years ago Jesus Christ gave sermons about tilapia to people…
Walt Whitman once said, “all beef is grass.” In like manner, once but no more, “all fish was plankton.” Sixty-six million tonnes of farmed fish…
Here’s why our collective focus on high and rising CO2 as an agent of global warming and climate change is misplaced. But at the same…
CO2 fertilisation has increased maximum foliage cover across the globe’s warm, arid environments Abstract: Satellite observations reveal a greening of the globe over recent decades. The role…
In the winter of 2011-2012 in between Christmas and New Year’s Day my salmon muse visited me. I penned a song to explain how the…
New report in the Journal Nature has revealed details on a very common and erroneous assumption on where water vapour comes from in the atmosphere….