Racing to the bottom is the only tuna fisheries management game being played, and it’s a losing game. Catch reduction to protect Indian Ocean Yellowfin,…
Mother Nature is the entire living biosphere, 99% of Mom is in the oceans, let’s begin there! Mom is like some extremely shy great whale…
Have you imagined that the wind and currents are what keeps the ocean in motion? Well think again, think smaller, much much smaller. The mathematicians…
Artificial Intelligence Appears Low Down On The Evolutionary Tree AI Plankton Bots, like Cube Sats, Are Swarming In An Ocean Pasture Near You Working Their…
Tuna, Cod, Salmon, Mackerel, Anchovies ocean fish decimated A new paper in the Journal PNAS confirms ocean plankton pasture collapse as primary cause of fisheries…
Ocean Genomics Businessman Craig Venter Works To Unravel Ocean Iron Mystery Recent research spotlights illuminates a microbial ‘lichen-like’ partnership between ocean bacteria and phytoplankton Commensal algae…
Iron, one of the most common elements on earth, is the rarest, most precious, most vital element influencing ocean life Iron is heavy and sinks…
Every week it seems another report of great ocean dying appears. Sea birds are now reduced by 70% of their recent historical numbers. Whales are…
I’ve been reporting on the appalling die off of seabirds and shorebirds for years. Now in the Journal Nature the scope of the apocalypse is…
Every day another headline or meme proclaims the perils of climate change. The spin masters have their fingers on every topic that they can relate…
Every night the greatest migration on our blue planet takes place. When darkness falls a nearly infinite multitude of tiny ocean organisms swim up from…
The Ocean Methane Paradox Vast regions of the world’s surface ocean which are richly oxygenated are strangely super-saturated with methane. Since oxygen rapidly destroys methane…
Guided Reading Index ( an index under construction) This blog has 400 or more posts and it can be daunting to study for those interested…
Today I received an email from a long time friend who is a Scottish Wind Power engineer. He’s has been concerned about just how much…
In Africa The Consequence Of Global Warming Is Hunger Amongst The Fisherfolk Who Depend On Africa’s Great Lakes The big lakes in Africa, like Tanganyika,…
Recently I have been hearing from people around the world who are concerned and wanting to help do something to help restore the health of…
Paris Accord now ratified and in final days before coming into full global force! But what’s next? If you wish to turn down the heat…
Once again the miracle of life reveals that there are no ‘free loaders’ in Nature Tiny zooplankton like krill that graze on ocean pastures evolved…
In climate science ‘models predict’ that warming of the air and oceans leads to more evaporation and that moisture laden air must lead to more…
Sometimes Nature Seems To Be Trying To Catch Our Attention Would you pay attention if she winked at you? Mother Nature has something very important…