Rapid Climate Change and the Role of the Southern Ocean Apr. 8, 2013 — Scientists from Cardiff University and the University of Barcelona have discovered new…
More grass growing means less dust blowing. There is a yin and yang to the life of plants on this planet. Our planet has two…
Just a couple of years ago common wisdom was that there might be 30,000 species of plankton in the surface ocean. The expedition described in…
Ocean phytoplankon are disappearing at an alarming rate. A far more rapid collapse than any ecosystem on Earth. The amount of phytoplankton in the top…
I wrote this piece as part of correspondence with a London thinker and speaker on the politics of climate issues. Dear John, If I may be excused…
Over my lifetime I have surely noticed the increasing number of reports on mercury in fish. Almost everyone now knows that top of the food…
Chinese Foreign Fisheries Catch 12 Times More Than Reported, Study Shows Apr. 3, 2013 — Chinese fishing boats catch about US$11.5 billion worth of fish from…
Fishing Fleet Working 17 Times Harder Than in 1880s to Make Same Catch The UK trawl fishing fleet has to work 17 times harder to…
A rutter is a mariner’s handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of information for maritime…
All of the above human “geoengineering” activity has taken place on just 14.6% of this planet. There seems to be a raging controversy about geo-engineering….
Back in the 1990’s I learned the hard way about the meaning of life. I’d always been a naturalist and conservationist and also a regular…
Here’s Our Most Important Pie Chart Of Where We Live. Our part is that 14.6% part that is habitable. There is a whole lot of…
A friend reminds me to accentuate the positive. Sometimes it is the simple messages that are the most important. In a month where I’ve had…
Some months ago, just before Christmas I believe, our Haida Salmon village office received a telephone call from a woman who identified herself as an…
“There’s a ruckus going on over an experiment in ocean fertilization conducted off the coast of British Columbia…” October 18, 2012 by Ted Parson There’s a…
Over the many years in planning our village project we ran across many scientific questions that we hoped our work might help provide clues and…
Confirming what I’ve been going on about for nigh unto 20 years high and rising CO2 in the air is growing more and bushier plants…
Here’s a letter from Tim who has given us a great deal of very good advice for a long time. If you want to win…
Greens Attack Haida Mariculture
Being learned science and green business folk we don’t ordinarily read the hard edge conservative media but today we’ve learned a welcome lesson to be…