Seventy-five percent of all plants depend on insects to survive and reproduce One out of every 3 bites of food humans eat comes from insect-pollinated…
Ten Years Ago I First Published The Plankton Manifesto It was the gentile warning note from our blue planet landlords admonishing us to keep the…
A Blue (Green) War Underway And It Places At Risk The Very Life Of The Worlds Oceans Cabals of power seekers are vying for control…
There’s a raft of stories out there about the very real crisis of our oceans losing their oxygen The stories are cueing off of a…
Climate Change Has Brought Forth Countless Proposals To Mitigate The Harm It Will Do But at the tragic heart of the issue is the fact…
Whether they remain part of this blue planets ecology is up to us For shellfish it is the first moments of life that crystallize the…
Birds, like the whippoorwill, that feed on insects are rapidly disappearing. If they were canaries and we were in coal mines, the alarms would be…
Early life on this blue planet evolved more than 500 million years earlier than once thought. Our Earth is just 4.5 billion years old and…
The majestic Giant Bluefin Tuna were once abundant across the world’s oceans Today in some major ocean pastures they are reduced to just 3% of…
In an unimaginable tragedy for third year in a row, seabirds are washing up dead along the coastline in Alaska. This isn’t just one carnary…
When Jan Ingenhouz was not out saving people from smallpox with his revolutionary vaccinations 250 years ago, He worked to unravel the mysteries of plants….
All over the world insects are reported to be disappearing. They aren’t gone completely anywhere yet, but their numbers reveal far more than decimation, 75%…
In the new BBC Blue Planet television series, the melodious host makes mention of the billions of tonnes of copepods that nightly rise to the…
I recently noticed on a friend’s climate change web site he speaks favourably of OIF ‘ocean iron fertilization’. That he is a kindred spirit in…
Today in my NewsBot terrible news was netted on the crisis of fish around the world. The ongoing plight of the Sardines of Portugal was…
The greatest voyages of discovery, exploration of the world’s seven seas began in the port of Lisbon. Today there is a new sort of pioneering…
The Math Is Complete And Its Ocean Carbon Math It Proves A Sixth Mass Extinction Is Nearly Upon Us A new analysis of past mass…
I have recently weathered another skirmish in the Blue Carbon Wars This skirmish resulted when out of the blue I was invited to be a…
Decades of Salmon Enhancement Work Costing Billions Has Resulted In Salmon At The Lowest Numbers In History Canada has had one of the world’s most…
Boffin computer models project fish are expected to shrink in size by 20 to 30 per cent if ocean temperatures continue to climb due to…